Sequential Culture, Volume 1 (incomplete)
an essay collection
by Julian Darius

CONTENTS

Topics in Comics

  1. The Cult of the Writer
  2. Continuity: No-Prizes, Retcons, and the Mental Acrobatics of Continuity Repair
  3. Against Speculators
  4. Media Coverage of Comic Books: The Case of 60 Minutes II
  5. Comic Book Morality
Specific Readings
  1. X-Men is Not an Allegory of Racial Tolerance
  2. Against Silver Age Marvel, The Cult of Stan Lee, and Fantastic Four (Annual) #1 / For Comic Books as Literary Art
  3. The Genius of the Super-Pets
  4. Superman 2002
  5. Belfast and New York, Ireland and America, and the Strange Phenomenon of “Irish Studies” as Seen in the Graphic Fiction of Garth Ennis
  6. The Intellectual Rip-Off of Captain America's The New Deal
  7. Mark Millar's The Authority and the Polemic over Iraq
Reviews out of Time
  1. Part 1
  2. Part 2
The State of American Comics
  1. 2001
  2. 2002
  3. 2003
Memoir in Ben Day Dots