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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 4h

It's never too late to appreciate the award-winning book Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero!

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Supersex

2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited Collection From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have a...

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 4h

I'll be at #NYCC for one day and one day only and that day is tomorrow (Thursday)

Say hi or if you want a copy of Supersex, drop me a dm!

A photo of the author proudly displaying her wares (multiple copies of her book called Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero)

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 1d

Have you heard the good news...? @sequentialscholars.bsky.social is doing two weeks on Demon Slayer! #DemonSlayer

Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 2d

Demon Slayer is a manga series by Koyoharu Gotouge, published from 2016-2020 in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump. The series follows Tanjiro’s journey to become a great warrior in order to avenge the murder of his family. #demonslayer 1/7

demon slayer cover, Tanjiro defending his sister Nezuko who is turning into a demon with a katana

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Dan Grote @danielpgrote.bsky.social · 3d

Can confirm, shirt is real, spectacular.

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 5d

@adamreck.bsky.social using his sick day for some intellectual enrichment

Adam thoughtfully reading Conversations with Todd McFarlane

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 6d

Took some inches off

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 6d

Our series of threads on Rachel Smythe's "Lore Olympus" is over but not forgotten! Here's a recap of what we covered. 1/6

An Introduction to Rachel Smythe’s “Lore Olympus”
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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 29d

The webcomic “Lore Olympus” by Rachel Smythe retells Greek myths through a modern lens, focusing on the relationship between Persephone, goddess of spring, and Hades, king of the underworld. On its own & metatextually, it's a thoughtful, skillful story about agency & identity. 1/10 #LoreOlympus

The cover of the first trade paperback edition of Lore Olympus, showing Persephone on horseback looking upwards at an upside-down Hades, in the underworld.

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 6d

Can confirm my favourite cartoonist smells great

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds kinda hot actually (all that full colour pen stroking...)

Image of a cologne called Cartoonist, yes it's real!

Ad copy for the Cartoonist cologne, including the line, "With every stroke of your pen, the world becomes more alive."

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 7d

When I look at that shoulder I can't stop seeing a butt?

(Plz pull quote me, Marvel)

ComicsXF @comicsxf.com · 7d

It's dangerous to go alone! Take this guide to Marvel's Age of Revelation:
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X things we know about the X-Men's Age of Revelation from the Overture issue - COMICSXF

What's going on X years in the future? We thought we’d offer this handy guide to give folks the lay of the land.

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Adam Reck 🔜 NYCC @adamreck.bsky.social · 7d

Just get paid? Use those bucks to look great with your very own Ghost Rider shirt!!! Fluorescent AND Glow in the Dark options available!!! 🔥💀

Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

Just in time for spooky season: hand-silkscreened FLUORESCENT & GLOW-IN-THE-DARK *Ghost Rider* t-shirts available now!! $30-35/each including shipping! Perfect for being the Spirit of Vengeance you want to see in the world 🔥💀🔥 Order details below! 👇

Pic of the poster wearing the described tshirts, depicting a totally rad skull on fire

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 8d

In an unusual 2020 experiment in transmedia promotion, Webtoons released a brief Lore Olympus video featuring actress Sydney Sweeney performing the twin roles of Persephone.

LORE OLYMPUS Starring Sydney Sweeney (Full Version) | WEBTOON

"I've been jealous before... but not like this. There's venom behind it." Sydney Sweeney becomes a goddess from a classic Greek myth. Stories to Obsess Over. LORE OLYMPUS. https://bit.ly/340E2Fa Witness what the gods do… after dark. The friendships and the lies, the gossip and the wild parties, an

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 10d

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

Just in time for spooky season: hand-silkscreened FLUORESCENT & GLOW-IN-THE-DARK *Ghost Rider* t-shirts available now!! $30-35/each including shipping! Perfect for being the Spirit of Vengeance you want to see in the world 🔥💀🔥 Order details below! 👇

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 10d

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

Just in time for spooky season: hand-silkscreened FLUORESCENT & GLOW-IN-THE-DARK *Ghost Rider* t-shirts available now!! $30-35/each including shipping! Perfect for being the Spirit of Vengeance you want to see in the world 🔥💀🔥 Order details below! 👇

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

Just in time for spooky season: hand-silkscreened FLUORESCENT & GLOW-IN-THE-DARK *Ghost Rider* t-shirts available now!! $30-35/each including shipping! Perfect for being the Spirit of Vengeance you want to see in the world 🔥💀🔥 Order details below! 👇

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 10d

True story: @adamreck.bsky.social pulled me your Stilt-Man trading card right after he saw this

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

Listen if you need me to write about Stilt-Man you know where to find me

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

Listen. It's a t-shirt with a *flaming skull on it* that's either obnoxiously bright or *glows-in-the-dark.* It's the perfect gift for every occasion and surely a wardrobe staple for years to come.

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

More close-up views with colour tags!

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

Here's what the glow-in-the-dark ink looks like when it glows in the freakin' dark!!

To place an order, DM me with your size of shirt, colour of shirt, and print colour. Payment via PayPal & Venmo. Orders go into production as soon as $ is received. Limited print run, order cut-off October 15!

Lights on, lights off views of a glow in the dark Ghost Rider shirt!

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

Florescent & glow-in-the-dark prints: $35/each USD

Metallic prints: $30/each USD

Print colours: Florescent pink, green, orange; glow-in-the-dark white; metallic pink, blue, orange, silver & gold

Shirt colours/sizes: unisex black, S-3XL; unisex navy, S-XL; specialty colours available upon request

Pics of the same Ghost Rider flaming skull shirt in many colours!

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 11d

Just in time for spooky season: hand-silkscreened FLUORESCENT & GLOW-IN-THE-DARK *Ghost Rider* t-shirts available now!! $30-35/each including shipping! Perfect for being the Spirit of Vengeance you want to see in the world 🔥💀🔥 Order details below! 👇

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 12d

For a peek behind the curtain of what an academic comics class can look like: check out @gipperfish.bsky.social's roundups of weekly lessons from his course on the comics of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee! #ComicsStudies

Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 12d

Comics of Kirby and Lee, Week 5: the fallout of the Comics Code leads to more adventure, sci-fi, and monster comics at National and Atlas. We surveyed some of Simon and Kirby's late work together, as well as Lee and Kirby reuniting just before the Marvel years. #comicsteaching

Week 5 of Comics of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee overview

Dave Wood/Jack Kirby, "Ultivac is Loose!" in Showcase #7 (National, March-April 1957)

Stan Lee/Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby, "I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers!" in Strange Worlds #1 (Atlas, Dec 1958)

Stan Lee/Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby, "I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk!" in Journey into Mystery #62 (Atlas, Nov 1960)

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 12d

To ground us, we read @annapeppard.bsky.social's "Excessive Embodiment and Monstrous Containment in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s The Fantastic Four," which addresses the FF's excessive bodies and how the monstrous works in relation to identity and the nuclear family throughout. #comicsteaching

Anna F. Peppard, "Excessive Embodiment and Monstrous Containment in
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s The Fantastic Four": "This chapter will argue that the monstrousness of the Fantastic Four
offers a vital opportunity to investigate the superhero genre’s general and
era-specific deployment of excess. Previous scholars have established
Fantastic Four’s indebtedness to the cultural contexts of the Atomic Age
and Cold War (Genter, 2007; Costello, 2009; York, 2012). For the most
part, however, this scholarship has focused on the politics embedded in
the plots of these comics. The analysis in this chapter, in contrast, focuses
on the superheroic body as a locus of politicized fears and fantasies.
In previous work, I have drawn on the work of Scott Bukatman
(2003), Richard Harrison (2010) and Aaron Taylor (2007), among
others, to argue that the superhero genre is:
a type ‘body genre’ which, similar to the horror films, musicals,
melodramas and pornography discussed by Linda Williams in her
seminal essay ‘Film bodies: Gender, genre, and excess’ (1991), is centrally
organized around exaggerated, grotesque, or otherwise fantastic bodily
performances. (Peppard, 2018, p. 60)
Using examples from Fantastic Four comics produced by the creative
team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby from 1961 to 1968,2 I will here explore
how the title characters’ monstrous bodies both revise and preserve
traditional and contemporary values related to power, gender and
heroism. This exploration will deepen our understanding of excess by
showing how types and degrees of excess always matter. In these comics,
various subtle and obvious differences delineate between good (that is,
heroic) monstrousness and bad (villainous) monstrousness."

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The Claremont Run @claremontrun.bsky.social · 12d

New book is officially out in the US! Canada next month (I still don't have a copy). You can find it at your usual online retailers or at www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Chri.... #xmen #claremont #comicsstudies

Chris Claremont

Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel Comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the ve...

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