Finished reading: How to Read Superhero Comics and why by Geoff Klock 📚

This was more academic than I was expecting (full of words like ‘misprision’ and ‘kenosis’), but Klock makes a convincing case that the books he writes about exist in conversation with each other, the comics of past eras, and criticism like Seduction of the Innocent.

I’m not sure if that interplay is supposed to answer the ‘why’ question by itself, but it does have me somewhat intrigued– at least enough to check out some books I’ve missed (like Marvels, Astro City, Kingdom Come, America’s Best Comics, and Grant Morrison’s JLA).