Batman Beyond Vengeance

by Alexi Sargeant

Despite its noir trappings and deeply dysfunctional Gotham, The Batman shows its protagonist growing in a way few other portrayals have. Continue Reading »

11 Mar 2022

The Wasted Potential of Wonder Woman 1984

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

In the recent Wonder Woman 1984, Diana isn’t facing down an enemy power, but a distinctly American moral threat. Continue Reading »

27 Jan 2021

Superheroes Saving Us From Ourselves

by Christopher R. Altieri

The moral of Avengers: Infinity War is that life is good—indeed, that life is a good, one the good guys seek to preserve, and bad guys seek to destroy.  Continue Reading »

15 May 2018

Sin, Redemption, and Spider-Man

by John B. Kienker

God so loved the world that he gave his only son. God so loved me that he has given me three sons. And last month, they discovered superheroes. Not a moment too soon, it turns out, as apparently overnight what I used to think of as our respectable middle-class home has become an alarming hive of after-school crime (or as my boys call it, “trouble”). So they fearlessly answer the call every afternoon, bounding around the house and the yard with hand-towel capes safety-pinned around their necks… . Continue Reading »

7 May 2012