The Adam of Your Labors
/Expensive new Batman movies have become a Hollywood ritual, but the character has been thrilling readers - and reflecting a constantly-shifting culture - for seventy years
Read MoreThe Twilight(ing) of the Superhero
/Nerdy teenager Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider - and a super-franchise was born! As a new blockbuster Spider-Man movie hits the summer theaters, Justin Hickey takes us on a tour of the character's colorful - and often tortured - past!
Read MoreNo Strange Quirk of Fate
/This month sees the arrival of the long-awaited $250 million dollar Hollywood movie adaptation of Marvel Comics' Avengers. Lost in all the hype is the rich history of the comic itself; Justin Hickey explores the convergence of pulp and pixels.
Read MoreSurvivor Testimony: The Case for Apocalypto
/Mel Gibson has made far more headlines for boorish public behavior than for the movies he's directed, and yet one of those movies -- the ambitious, problematic "Apocalypto," seeks to transcend easy classification.
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