Psychologist Sharon Lamb conducted a study on the influence of superhero role models on young boys, and thinks that the current crop have a generally bad influence on children: "There is a big difference in the movie...

Scottish DC writer Grant Morrison has some interesting observations about the social class differences between Batman and Superman: Bruce Wayne is a rich man. He's an artistocrat. Superman grew up as Clark Kent on a f...

Matthew Johnson has a fascinating hypothesis about the Mutant Registration Acts in Marvel Comics -- a series of US laws that require mutants to submit to government oversight and monitoring. These story arcs have been s...

Click on the link to view a larger size. I...  ...pt that it's probably necessary to expand cosplay culture and add online gaming. But yeah -- the people...

At Test Freaks, D. Salmons provides a psychological analysis of the fanboy phenomenon. Such people, he alleges, are strongly motivated by jealously, a desire for tribal identity, and a yearning to find respect within th...