Call for Papers 2024! Comics! Comics Movies! Comics History! Comics Fandom! Comics Art! The eight volume of the Pace University Journal of Comics and Culture is inviting authors, scholars, cartoonists, and comics creators to submit essays on anything comics! This year’s issue is interested in bringing together a variety of diverse topics and a broad…
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The Siren’s Soul: Dystopia, AI, and Ready Player Two
By Scott Donahue-Martens With the paperback release of Theology, Religion, and Dystopia in February 2024, I thought it was time to revisit the content in light of recent societal developments. On the one hand, it is incredible how much can change in the short interval between a final manuscript and a new published format. On…
Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, & Warhammer 40,000
Scott Harrower and Christopher Porter (eds) In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war… and religion. Lots and lots of religion. The world of Warhammer 40,000 presents a darkly nihilistic picture of the far future in perhaps one of the most popular, diverse, longest running, and firmly religiously-engaged science fiction settings….
Valentine’s Day Special Post! The Radical Liberal “Woke” Agenda of the 1980s Porky’s Franchise
By David K. Goodin Yes, you read that right. Yes, I am serious. Stop laughing. Well, let me backtrack my thesis even before it is presented. The sexual (let us say for the moment) hijinks of this infamous “boner comedy” are beyond the realm of good taste, basic human decency, and even contemporary statutory law. …
2023: Top Five Posts
Every year, we post links to the top five original posts for the year (check out our lists from previous years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022). Blogs from previous years and calls for papers certainly get a lot of views, but this list focuses specifically on the top views for this year’s original posts. If…
Call for Papers: Metaphysics and the DC Universe
Metaphysics and the DC Universe Editor: Matthew Brake The universe of DC Comics has existed for 85 years. During that time, numerous writers, artists, and editors have expanded and added to the lore of the DC universe. In doing so, a complex storyworld (what JRR Tolkien called a “subcreation”) has emerged, one with its own…
Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Ted Lasso
Title: Theology, Religion, and Ted Lasso Volume Editor: Daniel J. Cameron Abstract and CV Due: January 31, 2024 Initial Final Paper Due: April 30, 2024 Dr. Karen Eifler of the University of Portland published an article in March 2023 for the National Catholic Reporter entitled “Why Religion Needs Ted Lasso.” In her short article she…
The Defrosting of Mariah Carey and the Liturgical Seasons
By Jake Doberenz Every year, as the weather turns crisper, festive lights are strung up high, and Christmas inches closer, a unique phenomenon occurs in the world: the “defrosting” of Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey, popular for her earworm “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” represents the epitome of seasonally popular singers. She is so…
Call for Papers: Religion in Grant Morrison Comics
Call for Papers: Religion in the Grant Morrison Comics Editor: Matthew Brake Series: Religion and Comics (McFarland) In the 1980s, a movement known as the “British Invasion” saw a number of writers and artists from the UK join the ranks of American comics writers to produce some of the most popular and enduring work in…
St. Nektarios and Hagiography in Yelena Popovic’s “Man of God”
By Katherine Kelaidis As I wrote last year, “Advent” as such really isn’t a thing in the Eastern Christian tradition. That being said, in my mind, and all through my life The Holiday Season ™ began on November 9th, with the feast of St. Nektarios of Aegina. In 2021, Serbian filmmaker Yelena Popovic wrote and…
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