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What <i>The Electric State</i> Reveals About Marvel&#8217;s Creative Problem

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Cover of Action Comics #1, depicting Superman lifting a green car

Superman and the Question of Race

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Millie Bobby Brown as Michelle and the robot Cosmo in The Electric State

What The Electric State Reveals About Marvel’s Creative Problem

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Harmony Cobel in Severance: "Sweet Vitriol"

Severance and the Overlooked Women of STEM

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Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick in Severance "Hello Ms Cobel"

Lumon DEI: Severance and the Opportunism of Corporate Diversity

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Photo of an open book with extra letters spilling from the pages

Tell Me a Differently Shaped Story: SFF That Plays With Form

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Caleb Landry Jones as Syd March in Antiviral

Antiviral: Satire, Sickness, and Celebrity Culture 

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John Crichton playing a very screwy video game with a princess Aeryn in Farscape's "John Quixote"

“Look at the Princess”: Farscape and the Princess Fallacy

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Detail from the cover of an issue of Daredevil: Born Again, featuring Daredevil holding a baton and surrounded by flames

Revisiting Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil: Born Again Comic

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Rand al'Thor in Season 2 of The Wheel of Time

Where Did The Wheel of Time Season 2 Leave Its Characters?

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Detail from the gold record included on the Voyager space probes

Notes on Remote Sensing: How to Spot Aliens at a Distance

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Photo of a rose and a pile of unbound book pages

Let Them Eat Tropes: Why Romantasy Needs to Grow Beyond Trends

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Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson in Captain America: Brave New World

Captain America Was Never Afraid to Stand Up to Bullies in Power

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