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So apparently, even when you fill out an extensive application (including full contact details for three professional references) for a one-day educator pass for NYCC, then get approved for said pass, you're still not guaranteed an actual pass. Found this out the hard way 🤷

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks comics readers as inherent archivists. #ComicsStudies #Archives

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 2d ago

In “Archives, Collectors, and the New Media Work of Comics,” Jared Gardner effectively argues that comics, comics culture, and comics readers are all, to some degree, archival in nature – that comics speak to the very concept of archiving quite innately. #comicsstudies 1/9

In time for the new Spidey flick, we're looking at times the X-Men interacted with the Webhead himself, the Hulk and the Punisher! We're talking JJJ, World War Hulk, and Frank Castle with a steamroller - don't miss it!

ComicsXF@comicsxf.com · 2d ago

Battle Of The Atom: Looney Tunes Stuff There's a new Spider-Man and we are an X-Men podcast, therefore we are doing an episode about all the cameo's in Spider-Man and how they relate to X-Men. Sometimes when I write this copy I put a lot of effort into it, this is not that time. Ranked This…

I wanted to like the Supergirl movie. I really did. But for me personally it inspired some rather unpleasant Sucker Punch flashbacks.

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks fan-made comics archives. #ComicsStudies #Archives

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 4d ago

Corporate digital comics archives & major academic digital archives have different priorities but one thing in common: they generally cost money, creating barriers to entry. In contrast, fan-made archives are often free, suggesting a democratized alternative. Let’s explore the pros & cons. 1/12

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social spotlights the World of Archie Comics archive! #ComicsStudies #Archie #Archives

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · last wk.

The World of Archie Comics archive includes thousands of digitized & indexed comic books published by Archie Comics, spanning 1943-2020. Providing unprecedented access to a deeply influential franchise, it has tremendous potential to inform research on comics, pop culture & American history. 1/12

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks teaching with digital comics! #ComicsStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · last wk.

The impact of digital archives on comics pedagogy is a history that’s still being written whilst raising a number of key questions about our understanding of comics in a modern college or university classroom. There are opportunities here, but metaphorical landmines along the way.#comicsstudies 1/13

Lookit these sweethearts ❤️

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks academia + comics archives! #ComicsStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 2w ago

Comics archives hold a unique place in the study of comics and even within the broader culture of comics at large. This place (often literal) thus merits some consideration as an abstract concept – something that our next unit is hereby undertaking. #comicsstudies 1/9

Our next unit of analysis for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks comics archives! We've got some great stuff in store. Stay tuned! #ComicsStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 2w ago

Announcing Our Next Unit: Comics Archives and the Role of Archival Research in the Comics Scholarship Movement! #archives #comics #comicscholarship #sequentialscholars

The He-Man movie deserved to fail because everything with Leto does but also, Nicholas Galitzine was perfect and so were the nipples on Trap Jaw's bright blue chest.

Our unit on the wedding of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson is over but not forgotten! Our threads are always archived on our website. Here's a snapshot of what we covered! 1/8 #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies #BrandNewDay sequentialscholars.com?p=5835

Wedding of Spider-Man - Sequential Scholars

The wedding of Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson in 1987’s Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 was billed as an historical transmedia extravaganza. Whether it deserves the hype is subject to debate, but it’s ...

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Channel surfing has landed me upon a Gene Roddenberry-penned film called Planet Earth, which presupposes that in a post-apocalyptic matriarchy wherein men are impotent, we need John Saxon to teach women that sexual pleasure is possible. On the plus side, Diana Muldaur plays a mod dominatrix.

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social explores the Romita Look & Legacy of Spider-Man's world. #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 2w ago

The 1987 wedding of Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson features work by legendary artist John Romita Sr. and his son, John Romita Jr., who would soon become legendary in his own right. It thus offers an opportunity to compare the Romitas’ contributions to the look & legacy of #SpiderMan. 1/13

X-Plain the X-Men also inspired @claremontrun.bsky.social which led to @sequentialscholars.bsky.social so I probably owe this finest of X-Men podcasts both my husband and my job 💙

Adam Reck@adamreck.bsky.social · 2w ago

X-Plain was a big part of why I started the Bish & Jubez comic, which led to meeting Zack and doing Battle of the Atom, which led to the creation of ComicsXF. There’s a non-zero chance that without X-Plain I wouldn’t have met @annapeppard.bsky.social 3/

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks marriage tropes in superhero comics. #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 3w ago

In “Marriage, domesticity and superheroes (for better or worse)” - a chapter from the Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies - Jeffrey A. Brown explores the unique and complicated friction that exists between superhero comics and the very concept of marriage. 1/10

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks MJ's agency in and around her wedding to one Peter Parker. #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 3w ago

There’s a conceit within superhero comics that it’s too dangerous for heroes to have romantic partners, which many stories underscore by having villains kill, kidnap, or maim them. But before her wedding to Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson shows her ability to hold her own. 1/13 #SpiderMan

Adam's podcasting so I'm stealing his comics, starting with this one because it was on the outside of the box because it's too big to fit in the box

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks romance tropes in the wedding of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson. #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 3w ago

There is a pervasive, enduring assumption that superhero stories are exclusively masculine preserves. While men & boys have inarguably dominated the history of superhero comics, the wedding of Spider-Man showcases the indelible influence of a connotatively feminine genre–romance. 1/12

Wikipedia disagrees with Adam and so do I

Adam Reck@adamreck.bsky.social · 3w ago

Legit question: When Ace of Base sang “All that she wants is another baby” did you take that literally like I have for 30 years and assume she’s collecting babies?

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social spotlights Monica Geraffo's article on the life & tragic death of Willi Smith, a pioneering Black, gay designer whose final creation was Mary Jane Watson's wedding dress. #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies #FashionStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 4w ago

In an article titled “One Moment in Time: Designer Willi Smith & Mary Jane’s Wedding Dress,” comics scholar & fashion historian Monica Geraffo addresses “the context of what it once meant” to incorporate Smith’s unique creative vision into Marvel's superhero universe. 1/11 #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies

Our latest talks (and debates!) the transmedia extravaganza around the wedding of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson. #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 4w ago

The wedding of Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson–which happened in a comic book & comic strip & live at a Mets game–might be an example of transmedia storytelling. Or it might not. But it’s definitely a useful text for debating definitions of #transmedia storytelling–so let’s do that! 1/12 #SpiderMan

The Universal Monsters channel, to which I've been tuned for most of the day, seems to be subsidized entirely by ads for depression medication and you know what, that's fair

It's so annoying when there's an old movie with a cat in it and the director doesn't push the human actors out of the way to show me more of the cat

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social offers an intro to the wedding of Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson! #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies

Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 4w ago

The wedding of Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson in 1987’s Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 was billed as an historical transmedia extravaganza. Whether it deserves the hype is subject to debate, but it’s undebatably a fascinating moment for Marvel’s most popular superhero. 1/8 #SpiderMan #ComicsStudies

I just got advertised this perfume which I think presupposes the scent is created by a lady Gawain beheading a lady Green Knight which results in an explosion of magic flowers? And I gotta say - well met, algorithm. ffern.co/cinema?watch...

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Musical biopics are bad but also they should make one about The Who and make it good actually

I love ("love") when folks post comments on our YouTube account dedicated to academically analysing comics that are like "who cares" "it's just a comic" "stop overthinking it." Why do you care so much about saying you don't care. Literally no one is making you care. Plz feel free to care less.

CXF Staff Writer Tony Thornley examines why he's adding more DC and dropping more Marvel titles these days, and what that means for comics in general.

When did I start reading more DC than Marvel?

CXF Staff Writer Tony Thornley examines why he's adding more DC and dropping more Marvel titles these days, and what that means for comics in general.

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