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"99 Percent to 1, I Like Those Odds": Tom Morello on Protest Music, Occupy Wall Street, and Bringing Class Politics to Comic Books

Alyssa Rosenberg, ThinkProgress. October 17, 2011.

The former Rage Against the Machine guitarist has a new album, a new comic book about environmental and class politics, and has been visiting protests around the US.

The First 21st-Century Movement: Douglas Rushkoff on Occupy Wall Street and Reclaiming the Internet from Corporations

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. October 17, 2011.

Media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff talks to AlterNet's Sarah Jaffe about building a better Internet, the job-free future, and how Occupy Wall Street could save us.

Marvel Overcomes Its Fear of a Black Spider-Man. Will White Fans Follow?

Channing Kennedy, Colorlines.com. August 4, 2011.

Big moves! The new Ultimate Spider-Man is a half-African American half-Latino kid named Miles Morales. So why are some comics folks upset?

Captain America, the Problems With Nostalgia and the Search For a Hero

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. July 25, 2011.

The new Captain America movie is a trip into World War II nostalgia, but it misses its chance to actually make a point about today's politics.

Is 'X-Men: First Class' the Love Story of Professor X and Magneto?

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. June 6, 2011.

"X-Men: First Class" is a prequel to the three X-Men movies of the past decade. But does it reveal something new about familiar characters?

Thor: Don't Kill Yourself Over It

Eileen Jones, eXiled Online. May 10, 2011.

The latest superhero 'biopic' reinforces great shocker that Hollywood's only in it for the money

Braaaains: How Pop Culture's Hunger For Zombies Reflects the Tea Party Nation

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. March 4, 2011.

From rap songs to comic books, pop culture has traded in its vampire obsession for voracious zombie lore. Here's why we're becoming the United States of Zombieland.

Katrina Disaster Retold in Comic Book Form?

Staff, GRITtv. September 3, 2009.

An unlikely work of art hits close to home by portraying real stories from the Katrina disaster, 4 years later.

The Little Engine That Could for Oprah's Army of Housewives

Guest Blogger, July 10, 2007.

Matt Bors: What is the deal with this book The Secret?

Spider-Man’s next super-villain: George W. Bush

Evan Derkacz, January 3, 2007.

Creator's have had enough and say "F-U" to admin policies...