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