31 March 2013

Is One’s Choice of Best Robin Generational?

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Chris Sims of Comics Alliance (and, earlier, the Invincible Super-Blog) posted a very good essay this week on the questions: “Who is or was...
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29 March 2013

The Chief Justice and His Convictions

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There was strong competition for this week’s example of OIP Derangement Syndrome , but I decided to give the prize to Chief Justice John R...
28 March 2013

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Bechdel Test

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Critics of Oz the Great and Powerful have been lauding L. Frank Baum ’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a first-wave feminist fable, but I...
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27 March 2013

Oh, Little China Girl

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One of the new characters in Oz the Great and Powerful is the China Girl, an inhabitant of a village of china people who appear to have b...
26 March 2013

Gender Politics in the Latest Oz

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I’ve noted a couple of feminist critiques of Oz the Great and Powerful , one from Aisha Harris based on early previews and another from Eli...
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25 March 2013

Never Saw It, But I Read the MAD Parody

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At Film Comment, Grady Hendrix traces the rise and fall of MAD Magazine ’s film parodies: …the arrival of Mort Drucker in 1957 changed e...
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24 March 2013

“Gotham’s weird, but come on.”

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Since Oz and Ends has been talking a lot about Oz lately, I figured the weekly Robin could get into the game. These panels are from Batm...
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23 March 2013

Less Than Noble Nobel Considerations

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Earlier this year, the Guardian reported on disclosures from the Swedish Academy about the discussion behind the awarding of the Nobel P...
22 March 2013

Amy Kremer’s OIP Derangement Syndrome

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As Talking Points Memo highlights , in September 2012 Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the Tea Party Express, told CNN, “I just don’t believe tha...
21 March 2013

The Real Sources of Oz the Great and Powerful

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Yesterday I noted how Oz the Great and Powerful credits “the Works of L. Frank Baum ” as its source but doesn’t actually draw much from th...
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