Lorna Piatti-Farnell is professor of film and popular culture at Auckland University of Technology, where she is also director of the Popular Culture Research Centre.

Blitzed with cascades of superhumans that zip like quicksilver betwixt and between print, podcast, videogame, as well as big-tent and smartphone silverscreens, virtuoso comics scholar Lorna Piatti-Farnell, and her league of extraordinary cultural critics, invite us to take a critical pause. From incisive analyses of transmedial recreations of Wonder Woman, Scarlet Witch, Blade, Captain America, Spidey, and Jessica Jones as well as the Umbrella Academy and Power Ranger teams, we’re finally handed the roadmap we’ve been longing for: insight, understanding—knowledge. The Superhero Multiverse wakes us to long and deep histories of class-, race-, and gender-based societal traumas. It shouts from rooftops the emancipatory power of superhero narrative performativities!

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLorna Piatti-FarnellPart I: Across Platforms and Formats1.¬From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel MultiverseCory Barker 2.The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan 3.Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video GamesCarl Wilson 4.“I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back,”: Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended UniverseJoan Ormrod 5.Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero CinemaJames C. Taylor Part II: Transformative Meanings6.Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel’s Scarlet WitchForrest Johnson 7.Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU’s Captain AmericaLorna Piatti-Farnell 8.Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica JonesMatthe

Lorna Piatti-Farnell is professor of film and popular culture at Auckland University of Technology, where she is also director of the Popular Culture Research Centre.

Blitzed with cascades of superhumans that zip like quicksilver betwixt and between print, podcast, videogame, as well as big-tent and smartphone silverscreens, virtuoso comics scholar Lorna Piatti-Farnell, and her league of extraordinary cultural critics, invite us to take a critical pause. From incisive analyses of transmedial recreations of Wonder Woman, Scarlet Witch, Blade, Captain America, Spidey, and Jessica Jones as well as the Umbrella Academy and Power Ranger teams, we’re finally handed the roadmap we’ve been longing for: insight, understanding—knowledge. The Superhero Multiverse wakes us to long and deep histories of class-, race-, and gender-based societal traumas. It shouts from rooftops the emancipatory power of superhero narrative performativities!

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLorna Piatti-FarnellPart I: Across Platforms and Formats1.¬From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel MultiverseCory Barker 2.The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan 3.Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video GamesCarl Wilson 4.“I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back,”: Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended UniverseJoan Ormrod 5.Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero CinemaJames C. Taylor Part II: Transformative Meanings6.Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel’s Scarlet WitchForrest Johnson 7.Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU’s Captain AmericaLorna Piatti-Farnell 8.Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica JonesMatthe

Lorna Piatti-Farnell is professor of film and popular culture at Auckland University of Technology, where she is also director of the Popular Culture Research Centre.

Blitzed with cascades of superhumans that zip like quicksilver betwixt and between print, podcast, videogame, as well as big-tent and smartphone silverscreens, virtuoso comics scholar Lorna Piatti-Farnell, and her league of extraordinary cultural critics, invite us to take a critical pause. From incisive analyses of transmedial recreations of Wonder Woman, Scarlet Witch, Blade, Captain America, Spidey, and Jessica Jones as well as the Umbrella Academy and Power Ranger teams, we’re finally handed the roadmap we’ve been longing for: insight, understanding—knowledge. The Superhero Multiverse wakes us to long and deep histories of class-, race-, and gender-based societal traumas. It shouts from rooftops the emancipatory power of superhero narrative performativities!

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLorna Piatti-FarnellPart I: Across Platforms and Formats1.¬From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel MultiverseCory Barker 2.The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan 3.Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video GamesCarl Wilson 4.“I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back,”: Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended UniverseJoan Ormrod 5.Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero CinemaJames C. Taylor Part II: Transformative Meanings6.Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel’s Scarlet WitchForrest Johnson 7.Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU’s Captain AmericaLorna Piatti-Farnell 8.Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica JonesMatthe