Jean Grey’s transformation is the embodiment of Claremont’s unspoken mission statement: to create a comic about powerful women

Claremont & Byrne's X-Men run was the 1970s comic that created 1980s Marvel

The X-Men offered avenues of identification for readers who might not even know that they needed it

The X-Men is all about "surviving the experience," whatever that experience might happen to be

Meet me back next week so we can talk about mutants

Overworked and spread too thin, Shooter was poorly equipped to exploit the loopholes in the system he helped create

Hank's assertion of his identity always comes at the cost of Jan's

Everything about Hank Pym is a red flag: his insecurities, his obsessions with work and success, his casual dismissal of Jan's concerns, and, of course, his tendency toward dissociation. 

No matter his size, Hank suffers from the instability of his ego and a limited understanding of his own agency

Strikeforce: Morituri is also about the affective feedback loop binding the comics, their creators, and their readers

Strikeforce: Morituri was a comic that turned Eighties Marvel's death obsession on its head. 

The relative success of The 'Nam was surprising, in that war comics as a genre had long since fallen out of fashion

As a "jungle lord," Ka-Zar is an action hero, but, even more than the superheroes he occasionally meets over the course of his adventures, he is a fundamentally reactive character

What does it mean to be living out a young boy's heroic fantasy of jungle adventure if you're pushing thirty and inexplicably well-read?

Hulk is the part of Bruce Banner that Bruce refuses to recognize as himself

One of common tropes of Marvel in the 1980s:  the (always temporary) passage of the hero's mantle to a new character

The Eighties represented a simultaneous deepening and fragmentation of Spider-Man

Late Shooter is The Beyonder in his decadent phase, when power has completely warped his judgment and made him lose the plot

Secret Wars was never going to be mentioned in the same breath as Watchmen or Maus, but that was not what it was for

It is no surprise that Shooter's Marvel legacy is contradictory.