Gabriel Boyer

Last month we here at Mutable attended a convention at the University of Oregon that focused on the superhero genre in comix, and specifically giving credence to these outlandish figures with their outlandish stories. Herein we hoped to give a few highlights of the weekend. It is perhaps in poor taste to point out that we were in a full-body spandex superhero costume the entire time.

Names that stuck out were Charles Hatfield and Douglas Wolk, the former for his lecture on Jack Kirby and the sublime, and the latter for his talk on eschatology and the Marvel universe, specifically that here’s a world that’s often on the brink of destruction, but never destroyed, even when it is in fact destroyed.