Jeffrey A. Brown is an assistant professor of popular culture at Bowling Green State University. He has been published in Screen, Cinema Journal, African American Review, Journal of Popular Culture, Discourse, and Journal of Popular Film and Television.
Brown's effort is well intentioned, but it will leave readers confused. Its main thrust is to offer "an examination of contemporary comic book fandom as it relates specifically to the texts published by Milestone Media." One problem: Milestone has, for all intents and purposes, not published for the last several years; in fact, it has been out of business longer than it was ever in business. So how seriously can you take this book, whose narrow focus is hugely disappointing? We need a legitimate study of black superheroes, and this is simply not it. Not recommended with great bitterness. Chris Ryan, New Milford Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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