Justice Framed: Law in Comics and Graphic Novels

Wollongong, N.S.W: Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear only. Law Text Culture, v. 16. Contents: Comics as theory: Krazy Kat (review) / K.N. Llewellyn -- The legal surrealism of George Herriman's Krazy Kat / Ian Dahlman -- "What had been many became one": Continuity, the common law, and Crisis on Infinite Earths / Benjamin Authers -- Justice in the gutter: representing everyday trauma in the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman / Karen Crawley and Honni van Rijswik -- "Sakaarson the World Breaker": Violence and diffe?rance in the political and legal theory of Marvel's sovereign / Chris Lloyd -- Chewing in the name of justice: The taste of law in action / Anita Lam -- Comics as legal ideologies: Magic and modernity in Tintin au Congo (1930) and the Sierra Leone Special Court / Rene? Provost -- Spider-man, the question and the meta-zone: exception, objectivism and the comics of Steve Ditko Jason Bainbridge -- Comic book mythology: Shyamalan's Unbreakable and the grounding of good in evil / Timothy D. Peters -- "Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all": the multi-media outlaws of Serenity and the possibilities of post-literate justice / Kieran Tranter -- The aesthetics of supervillainy / Jack Fennell -- The Punisher and the politics of retributive justice / Kent Worcester -- "Riddle me this ...?" Would the world need superheroes if the law could actually deliver "justice"? / Cassandra Sharp -- Comics as legal critique: Noir justice: law, crime and morality in Di?az Canales and Guarnido's Blacksad: Somewhere within the shadows and Arctic-nation / Jane Hanley -- The story of Bohemia or, Why there is nothing to rebel against anymore / John Hanamy. CDN BAY 18.