* this seems more a cheery, upbeat example of trolling far more than it does a serious article about how people throughout the world perceive heroic comics fiction, and I bet people are going bananas pummeling it on places like Facebook. The central idea that these characters lose some of their Americanness when they're diversified counts on a pretty simplistic view of that word's central qualities. It's rhetorically clever, but that's about it.
* J. Caleb Mozzocco's scattershot reviews of new material are one of comics' true pleasures, both for the writing and the fact that this kind meatball criticism is being done.
* Johanna Draper Carlson on 
