Tag: Comics

• The Pop Culture Lens: Episode on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Fandom

  

  On a special episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I discuss a subject that has been one we have debated numerous times in our private lives and has become one that I have been focusing on as a research project: fandom, is it good or bad? We begin the conversation with […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 15, 2015

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  “television-as-content”, C2E2, Chip Zdarsky, comic industry, Comics, culture wars, Dark Horse, DC, fan art, fan communities, fan fiction, fan studies, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, GamerGate, identity, Image, insularity, Marvel Comics, MCU, Other Space, Paul Feig, Sad Puppies, Sex Criminals, Valiant, walled gardens

• Comics Adaptations Causing Fractured Fandom

  

  We are now full swing into the summer blockbuster season for Hollywood, and let’s take a tally of movies that are currently out or soon to arrive that originate from the pages of comic books.  Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  X-Men: Days of Future Past.  Hercules.  Guardians of the Galaxy.  Teenage […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 11, 2014

  Anime/Manga, Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Fandom

  Adaptation, Adaptation theory, Adaptations, Avengers, Batman, Blair Davis, Captain America, Comic books, comic strips, Comics, DePaul University, Doctor Who, faithfulness, Fandom, fans, fidelity, fractured fandom, Game of Thrones, Green Arrow, Guardians of the Galaxy, Johnny Storm, Michael B. Jordan, Popular Culture Association, Sin City, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Superman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Joker, Wonder Woman, X-Men

• From Jezebel: DC Comics Contest: Draw a Naked Woman Committing Suicide

  Seriously, just what is wrong with DC lately?  Have the editors in charge taken leave of their senses?  Has the success of Marvel as of late completely rattled them? First the horrendous sexualization of women in the New 52 (and everything else idiotic since then).  Then the horrendous death of Lois Lane to spur a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 7, 2013

  Comics Studies

  Adventure Time, Batwoman, Children, Comics, DC Comics, Doctor Who, Harley Quinn, Jimmy Palmiotti, Lois Lane, Marvel Comics, My Little Pony, New 52, scandal, sexualization, violence

• Comics Versus Literary Adaptations

  Back in 2007, I attended Comic-Con.  At the time, I presented a paper on comics adaptations into films and the roles of “true believers” at the Comics Arts Conference.  However, it was while I was at that venerable convention, surrounded by the fans and true believers Hollywood was hoping to capture (their energy, their money, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 16, 2011

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Superheroes

  Adaptation theory, Adaptations, Comics, Fandom, fans, Film, Respect