The Patron Saint of Superheroes

I’m a member of 50 Ways for Palestine, a branch of our local activist group 50 Ways Rockbridge, which we founded way back in 2016 for reasons that remain disturbingly true.

My favorite poet and my favorite poet’s favorite comics scholar are giving a double new-ish books talk on Wednesday at our university library.

When President-Elect Barack Obama appeared on a variant cover of The Amazing Spider-Man No. 583 (January 2009), he was not the first Black U.S.

If voters approve the three amendments on the ballot this fall, Virginia’s constitution will codify the rights of same-sex marriage, abortion access, and voting for released felons.

The phrase “Trump distortion” sounds redundant, except this isn’t about what Trump says.

When I presented my panel paper “Teaching White Supremacy in Marvel Comics” at the Comics Studies Society conference in June, I said this fall I would be changing my first-year writing seminar from “Superhero Comics” (a version of which I’ve been teaching…

When the Virginia Supreme Court nullified the May referendum approving new congressional maps, it did not end mid-decade redistricting in Virginia.

I am the topic of an article published on the website “Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis,” or “CAMERA.”

First, a thank you to Kristopher Mosby for his kind letter about The Color of Paper.

When Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell did not lower interest rates as Trump demanded (Trump posted that Powell was a “TOTAL LOSER” and “TOO ANGRY, TOO STUPID, & TOO POLITICAL, to have the job”), Trump’s DOJ opened criminal investigations into Powell’s tes…

“Genocide” has a legal definition that was unanimously adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

I started posting Trump losses in 2025.

I’m the comics editor of a literary journal, and when we received a certain submission in spring, I nearly accepted it.