Tag: questioning superhero tropes

Disrupting Some Tropes and Reinforcing Other Tropes A review of Jeff Lemire’s The Sentry: Man of Two Worlds (Marvel Comics, 2018). By Derek Newman-Stille Superhero narratives tend to have clear boundaries between heroes and villains. They tend to play with the duality between civilian identity and hero identity, but tend to privilege the hero identity. Like most of his comics,...