Today marks the one year anniversary of my launching ComicPhilosophy.com online. And what a year! Over 200,000 words written about comics and ethics (whew). I thought this would be a good time to take stock of where the site is – and where it is going. Has anything changed in …
Comic Philosophy is Fully AI Free
I’m proud to certify Comic Philosophy as completely free of any generative AI content! As I explained on my About Site page, all written content on this site has always been exclusively produced by a human being – me. And all the images used in my comics ethics posts are …
Fantastic Four Vol 8, issue #4, 2025
I don’t normally review single issues, but I couldn’t resist the opportunity presented by Ryan North and Humberto Ramos in their latest issue of Fantastic Four (Vol 8, issue #4, 2025, “Basic Obedience“). This is a stand-alone, single-issue story premised on a real neuropsychological condition – pareidolia. And it just …
Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow
In my last post, I looked at some of the strengths and criticisms of care ethics, and made a suggestion as to how to manage conflicts between people who prefer different moral judgements (that is, who apply different normative ethics theories). In this post, I would like to give an …
Moon Knight Ethics
Let me cut right to it. I know Khonshu is unworthy of my worship or anyone’s. I know he tried to take over the world. I know he deserves to be imprisoned wherever the Aesir are keeping him, off in Asgard. But unworthy or not, I am his fist. I …
Comics, Ethics and AI
Having hit a double milestone recently for this site (six months and over 100,000 human-written words of content about the ethics of comic books!), I thought it was time for something different: examining the promise and peril of AI through my experience of researching and writing about comic book ethics. …
The 8 Deaths of Spider-Man Ethics
This great story arc recently came to an end in the Amazing Spider-Man, Vol 6, series by Marvel comics. The main story line was written by Joe Kelly and Justina Ireland, with tie-in issues by Derek Landy and Christos Gage. The series deals very explicitly with the topic of death, …
The Vision ethics
The Vision is a reoccurring character with the Avengers in the Marvel Universe. He is an artificial being known as a “synthezoid” in the comics (a special type of android that that has synthetic humanoid body parts). He was married to the Scarlet Witch (a very significant character), and forms …
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) Ethics
As a character, Spider-Man presents a unique challenge in trying to discern a consistent normative ethics theory – he is the most popular Marvel superhero character of all time. Why is that a problem? Because it means he has appeared in more stories – and been written by more authors …