As part of DC’s Pride event this year, they are front-lining two of my favorite newer DC superheroes, Dreamer and Galaxy. Rather than the typical one-off issue, DC’s Justice League: Dream Girls Vol 1 is a four-issue limited series running each week this month (June, 2026), picking up from the …
The Power Fantasy – The End of History
One of the underlying premises of this site is that comics are a medium, not a genre. And in any artistic medium, there are higher concept pieces of art. The Power Fantasy (TPF) by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard (Image Comics) is one of those – while still dealing with …
Superman Ethics
Superman’s ethics are a particular challenge to describe succinctly – which is why I haven’t attempted it until now on the site! And it is not because the character’s ethics are unusually complex, or involve relatively niche areas of normative ethics (aka, moral philosophy). In fact, the evolution of Superman’s …
Battleworld (2025-26) vs Secret Wars (1984-86)
The recently completed five-issue limited series Battleworld (2025-26) by Christos N. Gage and Marcus To was a great read. It is not an exaggeration to say Gage has an encyclopedic knowledge of Marvel comics characters and history – which he puts to great use in this series. To use his …
Powers Ethics
The launch of Powers 25 by Dark Horse Comics in 2025 gave me the idea to catch up on the earlier series that I had missed during my time away from comics. And so, I sought out all the earlier runs by comics powerhouses’ Brian Michael Bendis by Michael Avon …
Jeff the Land Shark Ethics
I have long been a fan of the adorable Marvel character Jeff the Land Shark, created by Kelly Thompson and Daniele Di Nicuolo in 2019. Although initially appearing as a comedic sidekick to a number of West Coast Avengers (and later Deadpool), he became famous through his own adventures in …
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 …
Can Caring be Wrong?
I’ve previously introduced care ethics, and described how it came about from a feminist critique of a persistent masculine gender bias in traditional ethics. As is probably obvious in my writings here, I’m a fan of the care ethics perspective in general, and how it has been successfully applied in …
FML Comix Ethics
At this stage of my comicphilosophy.com site’s life, I’m looking to move beyond the comprehensive summaries of individual superhero characters’ ethics and start considering the ethics described in specific stories and creator runs (including ongoing series). A good example is my recent review of the first ten issues of Kelly …