Heroes Never Rust
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Heroes Never Rust #74: Knowing Yourself
Heroes Never Rust #74 by Sean Ironman Knowing Yourself Ms. Marvel finishes out its first story arc with the fifth issue. Kamala Khan finally gains confidence and control over her superpowers and no longer shifts her body to look like Carol Danvers. She becomes her own superhero and storms back into the villain’s lair and Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #73: Adjusting to the Story’s Needs
Heroes Never Rust #73 by Sean Ironman Adjusting to the Story’s Needs In a graduate-level fiction workshop a couple of years ago, a student used footnotes in a few places in a manuscript. The story was somewhere around fifteen pages, and footnotes were used three or four times, mostly toward the beginning of the piece. Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #72: Fattening the Story
Heroes Never Rust #72 by Sean Ironman Fattening the Story When I took Introduction to Creative Writing when I was an undergraduate in college, I was taught that everything in a story had to be there for a reason. I had to interrogate each word, and every one had to characterize and move the plot Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #71: Ms. Marvel vs. Possibly Offensive Imagery
Heroes Never Rust #71 by Sean Ironman Ms. Marvel vs. Possibly Offensive Imagery In the first issue of Ms. Marvel, the Terrigen Mists were released and when Kamala Khan came into contact with the mists, she gained superpowers and transformed into Ms. Marvel, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed member of the Avengers. Kamala looked up to Ms. Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #70: The Next Great American Hero
Heroes Never Rust #70 by Sean Ironman The Next Great American Hero Many decades ago, comic book creators figured out certain characteristics a comic book superhero needs to attract an audience. No matter how much power a character has or how many successes they earn, a superhero is an outsider. Superman is popular, but Clark Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #69: How to Understand That a Man Can Fly
Heroes Never Rust #69 by Sean Ironman How to Understand That a Man Can Fly Lana Lang was Clark Kent’s high school sweetheart, and, like most high school sweethearts, she thought that they would get married and spend the rest of their lives together in their hometown. She narrates the last issue of Superman: For Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #68: Lex Luthor: The Thin Line Between Good and Evil
Heroes Never Rust #68 by Sean Ironman Lex Luthor: The Thin Line Between Good and Evil In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain’s going to be? He’s the exact opposite of the hero. – Elijah Price, Unbreakable Superman: For All Seasons #3 is from the point of view of Superman’s Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #67: The Power and Humility of Superman
Heroes Never Rust #67 by Sean Ironman The Power and Humility of Superman Issue two of Superman: For All Seasons covers the summer from Lois Lane’s point of view. It opens with Superman flying through Metropolis over Lois’s narration about Perry White, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Planet, telling her not to believe what she sees Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #66: Superman, A Man’s Son
Heroes Never Rust #66 by Sean Ironman Man of Steel: Superman, A Man’s Son One of the complaints that I hear about the superhero films made in the last few years is that they are origin stories. How many times must we get Spider-Man’s origin? Superman’s origin? I must admit that I have made the Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #65: Feed the Beast
Heroes Never Rust #65 by Sean Ironman Feed the Beast: What a Man Must Become to Survive Vietnam Many of the Marvel Comics characters created in the 1960s have their origin tied to war. The Fantastic Four tried to beat the Russians to Mars during the Cold War. The Incredible Hulk was born during a Continue reading
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