A young refugee woman turned Scout continues her combat training in order to subdue the psychic planet of Eriatarka to make a new home for herself and her family.
Yes we are! @racefortheironthrone and I are gearing up to be able to record a podcast on it soon after it airs. I really hope the show can get the send off it deserves and I’m very hopeful and excited. So make sure you are subscribed to Graphic Policy Radio wherever you listen to podcasts!
Sorry for the slow response to your ask, I am rarely on tumblr. I’m on Bluesky now at Levin is my handle there. Plus still on the twits etc
In this dark sapphic noir, hitman-for-hire Thirteen finds herself seduced by an angelic patron and a devilish investor. Suddenly, she has a real chance at turning around her dead-end life – but which woman will be the one to lead Thirteen out from rock bottom: Saint, or Witch? Dreams, or Ambition? Angel, or Devil?
This comic was first released at Shortbox Comics Fair 2022.
Then on CrossFade: the Dueling Albums Podcast we deep dive in to Def Leppard’s Hysteria and Cinderella’s Long Cold Winter, two albums with completely different takes on radio-friendly late 80s rock.
I am writing to encourage you to cancel your subscription to the New York Times, in light of their consistently aggressively biased, irresponsible, and shoddy reporting on trans issues and stacking of their op-ed section with transphobic voices.
This is not a new problem, but it’s one that the NYT has compounded and doubled down on over the last few years. The open letter published yesterday is a remarkably civil overview of the issues with their reporting and the material harm that reporting has done; it doesn’t even touch on the op-ed stuff, which is absolutely vile. The NYT’s official response was to dismiss the signatories–including hundreds of NYT contributors and thousands of readers and other media professionals (including me)–as “activists” working at odds with the NYT’s nominal goal of journalistic integrity. The next day–today–they headlined their op-ed section with a defense of J.K. Rowling, who has done more to misinform and stoke the fires of transphobia–in both practice and official policy–than any other public figure, comparing her “persecution”–being correctly identified as transphobic–to that experienced by Salman Rushdie, and repeatedly misgendering trans men as women.
As a former journalist, I consider the NYT’s reporting on trans issues unconscionable; as a trans person, I find it incredibly scary. NYT articles–ones misreported to an extent that has triggered open criticism from major medical organizations–have been used to justify some of the most aggressive anti-trans legislation this and last season. That the “paper of record” has decided to advocate for our dehumanization puts the dignity and lives of people like me in active jeopardy, and regardless the quality of their other work, I don’t think there’s a conscionable way to continue to support them.
Yours, Jay Edidin
Does DC have any big progressive metaphors in it the way Marvel has the mutants? It seems like Marvel really strives to be inclusive with all these intersectional characters, but I can't seem to think of any for DC.
However, my good friend @elanabrooklyn wouldn’t let me get away with not addressing the one major part of D.C that does truck with progressive metaphor - the Fourth World. In addition to individual characters and groups of characters serving as metaphors - Scott Free symbolizes Freedom, the Forever People are hippies, Funky Flashman is Stan Lee - there’s a huge amount of metaphorical critique of everything from industrial capitalism to reactionary charismatic movements.
This looks like a job for: Chingy Le Gay is a writer, comedian, advice columnist, and critically acclaimed ex-girlfriend. Her work focuses on queer dating, pop culture, and her weird sex life and can be found at Out Magazine, Jezebel, Them, and Autostraddle. https://twitter.com/TheGayChingy
Steven Attewell writes about the intersection of history, politics, and pop culture in The People’s History of the Marvel Universe for Graphic Policy, and at https://racefortheironthrone.tumblr.com/ (where he’s been covering HoX/PoX issue-by-issue). In his day job, he teaches public policy at CUNY’s School for Labor and Urban Studies.
Also:
Comparing AOC and Krakoa
‘No it’s not a cult!‘
Who gets to tell big stories in comics
Mutant Social Reproduction in the Marxist sense & the sexy sense
Free All Political Prisoners!
‘My medication is an endless supply of Charles Xaviers’
This looks like a job for: Chingy Le Gay is a writer, comedian, advice columnist, and critically acclaimed ex-girlfriend. Her work focuses on queer dating, pop culture, and her weird sex life and can be found at Out Magazine, Jezebel, Them, and Autostraddle. https://twitter.com/TheGayChingy
Steven Attewell writes about the intersection of history, politics, and pop culture in The People’s History of the Marvel Universe for Graphic Policy, and at https://racefortheironthrone.tumblr.com/ (where he’s been covering HoX/PoX issue-by-issue). In his day job, he teaches public policy at CUNY’s School for Labor and Urban Studies.
Also:
Comparing AOC and Krakoa
‘No it’s not a cult!'
Who gets to tell big stories in comics
Mutant Social Reproduction in the Marxist sense & the sexy sense
Free All Political Prisoners!
'My medication is an endless supply of Charles Xaviers’
Listen to the podcast here, @graphicpolicy on itunes, soundcloud, spotify etc (should pop up in the morning on those platforms)
Also I decided to make the floor plan in X-Men 1 just a little clearer for everyone:
A we prep for our Graphic Policy HoX roundtable a few Q? 1. Why is Vulcan like that? 2. Why is teen!Cable like that? 3. How old is Jean supposed to be? She looks 20. 4.How old is Scott supposed to be? Cuz he looks 30. 5. Is there any possible heterosexual explanation for Jean/Logan/Scott? I don’t see one. But then I’m queer and I don’t see any possible het explanation for anything X-men do. & yet editorial exists….
Vulcan is weird and comes from a really bad comic, but the answer is that he was raised by the Shi'ar (space bird jerks).
Teen!Cable is like that because he was introduced in a weird and not very well-received comic, the gist of which is that he killed his older self for being a bad TimeCop and somehow brought Cyclops back from the dad. But that latter part suggests that getting to be a kid with a family is big for him.
It’s hard to say b/c sliding time scale and Jean dying and getting resurrected a bunch makes the question really philosophical (are we talking how old her mind is, how old this body is, etc.). My best guess, since she graduated college, is somewhere in her mid-20s.
There isn’t, really. Between the Sinister Secrets, the belly-rub panel, and the Summer House floor plan, it’s pretty clear that this is a poly triad where everyone is very, very comfortable with one another…and presumably Jean has used her telekinesis to deal with any snoring problems.
As for how Hickman got away with it, I think he found a very narrow sweet spot which is somewhat above subtext but not so immediately obvious that editorial catches it in time.
Re 5 & 6: There really is a phenomenon where straight male writers get a lot of more leeway in writing non-heteronormative stories and queer characters. We saw what Marvel did to Sina Grace (an actual queer writer). Meanwhile Hickman gets to do this with three of the most famous X-men.
Al Ewing and Kibblesmith get to write a clearly genderfluid Loki. And bless them for it! They should! But only straight writers are being given that leeway.
Also re 5&6, it must be the corner of the internet I hang out in that I haven’t seen a soul try to convince themselves that the polycule is strictly heterosexual. I say that knowing that IRL there are thruples like that are. But no one is staking that claim here. Only getting their steak over cooked due to their boyfriend’s overzealous weird kid.
I think you’re quite right.
Re: seeing the poly, I do think it’s down to what corners of the internet one hangs out in. X-Men twitter has had their collective eye on this for a while, whereas you see a lot more resistance on, say, Reddit to it being poly. Ditto for the throuple being non-hetero as well.
(I do know some folks on X-twitter were hoping that Wolverine’s bedroom be in the middle rather than on one of the ends, just to drive the point home.)
As with most of X-twitter, I think it’s pretty dispositive that not only do they have adjoining bedrooms, but those bedrooms are connected by open corridors, which suggests a very different set of boundaries than doors.
I kind of want to know what the heterosexual freakouts on reddit are. Like what could they even say?
I actually did think Logan’s room was in the middle but I guess that’s a railroad apartment too far for Hickman. Ho hum.
Speaking of:
two more questions:
7. Can we dare hope that Rachel’s butch mullet returns?
8. Does Corsair even have an earth name and does anyone use it?
Elana: Co-host of the Graphic Policy Radio comics podcast. and an obviously Leftist comics blogger. Also posts about DnD, RnR and NYC. #SupermanIsAnImmigrant
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