Klock, Jeff. How to Read Superhero Comics and Why.
Continuum, 2002. 256pp. ISBN 0826414192 (paper).
- Introduction ... 1
- 0 - Melancholy and
the Infinite Earths ... 19
- Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superman:
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, and JLA: Earth-2
- 1 - The Bat and the
Watchmen: Introducung the Revisionary Superhero Narrative ... 25
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman:
Year One, Batman: The Killing Joke, and Watchmen
- 2 - "It is with
considerable difficulty..." The Revisionary Superhero Narrative, Phase
Two ... 77
- Marvels, Astro City, and Kingdom Come
- 3 - America's Best
Comics: Tracing the (Re)visionary Company ... 98
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Tom
Strong, Promethea, Top Ten, and Tomorow Stories
- 4 - Pumping Up the
Volume: The revisionary Superhero Narrative Approaches the New Age ...
122
- Grant Morrison's Justice League of America, and
Warren Ellis's Stormwatch, The
Authority, and the WildC.A.T.s/Aliens
Crossover
- 5 - The Superhero as
Critic: The Birth of the Modern Age ... 153
- Planetary, Mark Millar and Frank
Quitely's Authority, and Joe
Casey and Sean Phillips's Wildcats
- Epilogue: Pop Comics,
harold Bloom at Harvard, and the Oedipal Fallacy ... 172
- Marvel Boy, Grant Morrison and
Frank Quitely's New X-Men,
and Peter Milligan and Mike Allred's X-Force
- A Frequently Asked
Question: Unbreakable ... 178
- Bibliography ... 183
- Index ... 199
- [Endpapers ...
205-206]
Reviews:
- Jackson, Kathy Merlock. [review.] Children's
Literature Association Quarterly 28.3 (Fall 2003): 181-182.
- Lewis, A. David. [review.] International Journal of Comic Art
4.2
(Fall 2002): 348-50.