Noah Berlatsky takes on Jacques Lacan, and Rogue.

Noah Berlatsky takes a look at the ultraviolence in Noboru Iguchi's film Machine Girl.

Noah Berlatsky looks at the Wonder Woman costume in various iterations.

Noah Berlatsky looks at the mandorla and poetic iconography.

Noah Barlatsky looks - literally - at the sound effects in Art Baltazar and Franco's Tiny Titans.

Noah Berlatsky looks at W.W. Denslow's illustrations for The Wizard of Oz.

Noah Berlatsky compares Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man to Georges Bataille.

Noah Berlatsky looks at Katana, as drawn by Jim Aparo.

Noah Berlatsky looks at techniques shared by M.C. Escher and Dave Gibbons.

Noah Berlatsky examines Quentin Blake's The Story of the Dancing Frog.

Noah Berlatsky looks at the depiction of African Americans in the works of Robert Crumb.

Noah Berlatsky wonders at the advertisements found in a Bluewater Female Force comic.

Noah Berlatsky considers superhero tropes in the TV series Bones.

Noah Berlatsky examines a trio of 13th Century Chinese paintings.

Noah Berlatsky looks at fetishism in Junji Ito's Uzumaki.

Noah Berlatsky comments on Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin.

Noah Berlatsky looks at the confluence of super-hero and noir in the 1986 miniseries Punisher: Circle of Blood.

Noah Berlatsky questions whether there's really much distance between Superman and Joe Shuster's infamous fetish comics.

Noah Berlatsky examines Marley's Dokebi Bride.

Noah Berlatsky considers Yuichi Yokoyama's Travel.

Noah Berlatsky looks at sequence in the art of ukiyo-e master Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and in the storytelling of Satoshi Kitamura.

Noah Berlatsky takes a look at estimated comic sales and compares them to published sales figures on a variety of competing media.

Noah Berlatsky looks at comic book-style alter egos featured on wildly popular recent albums by popstars Beyonce and Ciara.

Noah Berlatsky reviews Jason's Low Moon.

Noah Berlatsky examines the Cinderella trope and how it does and doesn't play out.

Noah Berlatsky looks at the work of Graham Rawles and of Ernesto Caviano.

Noah Berlatsky contemplates sexist drawings and artistic achievement.

Noah Berlatsky looks at Feminism, bondage, sex, and Wonder Woman.

Noah Berlatsky reviews Sooyeon Won's Let Dai.

Noah Berlatsky wonders whether Spidey came to the right conclusion about the relationship between great power and the responsibility to act.

Noah Berlatsky takes a page from Freud and wonders whether American comics and Japanese samurai manga have a similar take on the Oedipal complex.

Noah Berlatsky takes a look at two major archetypes in storytelling for men. He calles them Dick and Fanny.

Noah Berlatsky leads a tour through the silhouettes in Arthur Rackham's Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.

This month, Noah Berlatsky profiles a pair of works produced by cartoonist David Heatley.

A brand-new column debuts today as Noah Berlatsky present the first installment of A Pundit in Every Panopticon. Every month, Noah will take a look at some of the strange contrasts he sees in the comics world, and he doesn't mince his words (that means, strong language!).