The Superhero: Meditations on Surveillance, Salvation, and Desire

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Notes

1. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (New York: DC Comics, 1995).

2. Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (New York: DC Comics, 1996).

3. Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, Civil War (New York: Marvel Comics, 2007).

4. All citations refer to the trade paperback collections of the individual issues: Rick Remender and Eric Nguyen, Strange Girl, Vol. 1: Girl Afraid (Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2005); Rick Remender, Eric Nguyen, Jerome Opena, and Harper Jaten, Strange Girl, Vol 2: Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2006); Rick Remender, Nick Stakal, Micah Farritor, Strange Girl, Vol. 3: Paint a Vulgar Picture (Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2007); Rick Remender and Peter Bergting, Strange Girl, Vol. 4: Golden Lights (Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2008).

5. Terry Kading, “Drawn into 9/11, But Where Have all the Superheroes Gone?” in Comics as Philosophy, ed. Jeff McLaughlin (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005), 207–27.

6. Strange Girl, Vol. 1.

7. SG Vol. 2.

8. St Vol 1.

9. Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom (1941, New York: Avon Books, 1965), 133.

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Rebecca Wanzo

Rebecca Wanzo is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University