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• W3201317249 abstract "Reviewed by: Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero ed. by Anna F. Peppard Nicholas E. Miller (bio) Anna F. Peppard , ed. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero. University of Texas Press, 2020. 384 pp, $60. I have been guilty of overusing sexy as a way of describing scholarship, but in the case of Anna F. Peppard's recent collection Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero, no other term seems appropriate. If the stated task of assembling a volume dedicated to unpacking the superhero genre's complicated relationship with sexuality does seem not impressive enough, Peppard has also managed to curate a book that is utterly enjoyable to read. In other words, the sexiness of this collection is tied not only to its intellectual contributions, but also to its affective power—at times I felt downright naughty for reveling in Supersex as much as I did. Peppard achieves this effect by mobilizing scholars from a range of disciplines and ranks, demonstrating both the value of interdisciplinary scholarship and the wealth of talent that exists among emerging scholars in comics studies and media studies. While many of the names featured in this collection were already familiar to me, Supersex also introduced me to a number of scholars whose research I now follow with great interest. Peppard promises a lascivious perspective on the superhero genre in the introduction, and in the process has revealed my own desire to hear from new voices in the field. Despite the impressive range of essays in this collection, however, for the purpose of this review I have chosen to highlight the chapters that foreground comics studies (or transmedia studies) approaches to supersexuality. Unfortunately, that means neglecting Peppard's own wonderful chapter in a brilliant section on film, television, and fan culture. I am confident that readers will gravitate toward those compelling essays, regardless, as they realize how strong this volume is from cover to cover. Supersex opens with a chapter by Richard Reynolds on costume, sexuality, and power—a chapter that had me hooked from the beginning. By theorizing gender performance in Miss Fury through the masquerade of daily life (51), Reynolds invites scholars to attend more carefully to issues of fashion in our examination of gender, identity, and power. While reading this chapter, I found myself eager for Reynolds to collaborate with fashion historian and comics studies scholar Monica Geraffo on additional scholarship devoted to fashion in comics. Indeed, Reynolds's reading of Miss Fury as an outlier within the superhero genre—largely due to her costuming—is more attentive to the fluidity of metropolitan identities than I have seen in other scholarship on costuming in the past. I should probably admit that I would have purchased the entire collection solely on the merits of another essay from the first section of Supersex: Brian Johnson's chapter on Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame. Johnson's work is emblematic of the claim that I made at the beginning of this review, that this volume is both an intellectual and an affective force. While this essay is carefully theorized and deeply aware of its engagement with queer studies, at its heart it is a personal reflection on the experience of being a queer and questioning child while reading Dazzler in the 1980s. As I read this chapter, I [End Page 231] could not stop thinking about Johnson's enviable ability to highlight the affective—and deeply personal—stakes of intellectual inquiry. This reading of Dazzler intentionally reads against the grain of what other scholars (myself included) have done in comics studies, and does so largely by drawing on personal experiences to render its theoretical moves more powerful. As I was catching my breath from that chapter, I was immediately punched in the gut by the following one: Sarah M. Panuska's chapter on the underground origins of LGBTQ+ superheroes. Just as Johnson's work upended my relationship to queer studies on an affective level, Panuska's chapter forced me to rethink queer studies on a historical level. I was particularly struck by the suggestion at the end of Panuska's chapter: that mainstream superhero comics continue to draw from those underground origins to push their superheroes into more multiplicitous..." @default.
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