Posts tagged Comic Books
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

Jean Grey is our pedestrian stand-in, Phoenix Force is the impatient driver blasting through a crosswalk, and yet somehow Jean blames herself for both gas being expensive and daring to cross a street while she has the right-of-way signal? Preposterous!

You can do this, too! You can think about media like this. It’s fun. No one needs to pretend outlandish things are real-life events for them to be impactful in your mind.

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