Full page insight: the apocalyptic moment in comics written by Alan Moore

Cortsen, Rikke Platz

doi:10.1080/21504857.2014.913647

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“…The page showing Kamala and Kaboom is visually dynamic but also, by virtue of being a full‐page panel, provides a break in the narrative itself. As discussed by Rikke Platz Cortsen, full‐page panels place the reader in control of the duration of a narrative moment (399). The lines are primarily directed upwards, creating further pause, as they do not point to the next page.…”

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The size of the fight in the girl: Violent girlhood in Ms. Marvel

Fabricius

2023

The J of Popular Culture

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The rise of girl protagonists in superhero comics creates a dilemma, since violent girlhood is surrounded by cultural anxieties, yet super‐girls are expected to engage in violence. One of the most popular super‐girls of this century, Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, embodies this ambivalence in the fraught intersection of girlhood, racialization, and physical violence. This article investigates the affective economies and haptic line work of the Ms. Marvel series with the aim of discussing the visual strategies used to explore violent girlhood: pauses, lines of orientation, color work, and cuteness as a visual mood.

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The size of the fight in the girl: Violent girlhood in Ms. Marvel

Fabricius

2023

The J of Popular Culture

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“…Rikke Platz Cortsen (2014) argues that Alan Moore's use of full page panels throughout his oeuvre is characterised by a nuanced spatiotemporal structure of revelation and transformation. Cortsen ends her essay by suggesting that, because the full-page panel both stops time and gestures beyond itself to the linear sequence of the comic as a whole, 'its temporal qualities reach over the border of diegetic action into the reader's reality and measures out the time it takes to decode the page, the time it takes to look' (13).…”

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