My article, ‘X marks the spot,’ is now open access!

My recent article on Marvel's District X, published in the latest issue of The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (vol. 2, issue 1-2) is now available open access, which means that anybody can just click here and download it. The summary I had to write to got with it reads like this: This article studies …

Comics Review: “NYX”

This is the first of a series of posts dealing with Marvel's New York mutant enclave, known variously as "Mutant Town" and "District X." Throughout its lifetime of roughly six years, the neighborhood saw many changes in its meaning and configuration. It first appeared in Grant Morrison and John Paul Leon's New X-Men #127 (August …