Noah Berlatsky

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.