superheroes

The shapeshifting face of American superheroes: from Marvel to The Boys

This change seems reflective of a larger social phenomenon: a widespread distrust of people in power. 

| Junior Forum Editor

Battle for the box office: Superhero genre weighs quality v. quantity

Anyone who has been tuned into popular culture this year can’t have missed the intensive media campaigns of two giants in their field, both fighting to come out on top in one of the fastest escalating competitions in recent memory. Of course, I am talking about the struggle between Marvel and DC Comics.

| Music Editor

Editorial Cartoon: Carving Pumpkins

Esther Hamburger | Student Life

Super TV: Superheroes who deserve their own shows

The premiere of “Arrow” last Wednesday on the CW got Cadenza thinking: who is Arrow? What really is his power? Why does anyone care? This prompted us to think of […]

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