"Jeffrey Brown does it again! With his usual compelling style of writing, this time we are treated to a very timely analysis of Marvel's contemporary multicultural superheroes and their complex entanglements. The significance of this text is its sophisticated way of unpacking the pop cultural panoply of ideology, history, and identity in which the superhero aesthetic is inextricably confined." Ronald L. Jackson II, co-author of the Comic-Con award winning book, Black Comics "[ Brown] has written a wonderfully readable book whose academic posture does not make it any less appealing to the layperson or the aficionado." South China Morning Post "Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel's recasting of certain 'legacy heroes,' including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen." Forces of Geek "Smash Pages Q&A: Jeffrey A. Brown: The pop culture scholar discusses his latest books on superheroes, diversity and gender" SmashPages "Jeffrey Brown does it again! With his usual compelling style of writing, this time we are treated to a very timely analysis of Marvel's contemporary multicultural superheroes and their complex entanglements. The significance of this text is its sophisticated way of unpacking the pop cultural panoply of ideology, history, and identity in which the superhero aesthetic is inextricably confined." Ronald L. Jackson II, co-author of the Comic-Con award winning book, Black Comics "Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel's recasting of certain 'legacy heroes,' including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen." Forces of Geek "Smash Pages QA: Jeffrey A. Brown: The pop culture scholar discusses his latest books on superheroes, diversity and gender" SmashPages "[ Brown] has written a wonderfully readable book whose academic posture does not make it any less appealing to the layperson or the aficionado." South China Morning Post
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