Anna F Peppard PhD

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social explores the significance of names in Naoki Urasawa's "Monster." #ComicsStudies #Manga

A "2 years ago" post commemorating a troll calling me an "alleged scholar"

Still true

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social spotlights some stellar academic analysis of "Monster." #ComicsStudies #Manga

(it's a fun gimmick and I admire the dedication to the bit I just don't personally want to go back to 1999!)

Bob Costas and Doug Collins are covering the Spurs/Sixers game with the old NBC logo and uniforms and I'm genuinely shooketh, like I've stepped thru a wrinkle in time or I'm having one of those nightmares where I'm back in highschool

Finally, I didn't write it, but the best thing I read last week was @annapeppard.bsky.social's deep divefor @comicsxf.com into the sartorial history of Captain Marvel & Marvel's current obsession w/retro minis featuring the most scantily-clad versions of characters.

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Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Intersectional Feminism Before Carol Danvers was Captain Marvel, another woman held the title—Monica Rambeau. While Rambeau stopped using the codename many years prior, the second story starring Danvers’ as Captain Marvel at...

While she wasn't the focus of this particular discussion, I try to pay tribute to Monica Rambeau where I can.

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ICYMI: jotted some phrases this week for @comicsxf.com about Marvel's recent bevvy of supposedly fun throwbacks:

"Let's consider whether sexiness severed from character really sells as well as someone somewhere seems to assume."

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks plural protagonists in "Monster." #Manga #ComicsStudies

I don't want to say what the employment thing is quite yet but the book contract is for an academic anthology called "Small Screen Supers: Essays on Superhero Television," co-edited by myself and Dru Jeffries. Hopefully just a year or so away from putting it in front of your eyeballs!

Signed a book contract and an employment contract today, so that's pretty okay

A Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about a snowman making snow cones out of the body of his bretheren

Calvin and Hobbes remains unbeatable

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Don't think I've seen this before! Super interesting. Part of what pains me about the black costume is that (at least the way Cockrum draws it) I don't even dislike it. It could work for someone else! Just not for Carol, a person desperate to be taken seriously (sometimes to her own detriment!).

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As they say, Krakoa was for lovers 💙

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It's all very perplexing to me from a marketing standpoint if nothing else. Objectively, doing 90s throwbacks is not the way forward. The comics market is growing but not in that direction.

Thanks so much!

Did words for @comicsxf.com about Marvel's recent throwbacks to things I'm very un-nostalgic for:

"If you care about Marvel as a publisher of comics, it’s worth observing the desperation attending these attempts to appeal to supposedly dependable demographics that are actually increasingly niche."

We need to talk about Carol Danvers’ black bathing suit Dr. Anna Peppard examines the history of Carol Danvers' costumes and Marvel's current obsession with miniseries that put its women back in more dated looks.

Dr. Anna Peppard examines the history of Carol Danvers' costumes and Marvel's current obsession with miniseries that put its women back in more dated looks.

Hey guess what? @sequentialscholars.bsky.social has started a new unit of threads focusing on Naoki Urasawa's "Monster"! #Manga #Monster #ComicsStudies

The original orange cat Heathcliff, resident of New Jersey, adorning my telephone, in sticker form.

When you call me this is who you're calling

If you're ever in her vicinity someone in that vicinity is gonna die for sure

I'm watching Murder, She Wrote for maybe the first time? Is Angela always this gleeful about the murders, is she the original problematic true crime fan

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social spotlights Dale Jacobs' book "On Comics and Grief." #ComicsStudies

Oof, godspeed. I don't remember whether I yelled at anyone but I definitely wanted to.

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social spotlights @lkonstan.bsky.social and Georgiana Banita's anthology "Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman," published by @upmississippi.bsky.social! #ComicsStudies