Metamorpho #3 shows why fab freakiness is in

Welcome, freaks and freakettes, to our inaugural coverage of Al Ewing and Steve Lieber’s Metamorpho: The Element Man. We’re picking up with last week’s issue #3, in which Simon Stagg’s caveman consigliere Java embarks on a globetrotting espionage mission with the shape-shifting Urania Blackwell, aka Element Girl. Will Metamorpho, the Freak of 1,001 Changes, take…

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I’m afraid of Canadians: Marvel Comics, the Trudeaus and how we perceive our neighbors

I’m Canadian. But I’m not particularly patriotic. My ancestors from Ireland, Scotland and France weren’t rich or powerful but, by virtue of being white, undeniably benefited from the various government-sponsored genocides that made the nation of Canada. I’m ashamed of that and the perpetuation of myths about my nation’s history, like the idea that because…

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