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Roger’s Bacon | Secretorum | 25th June 2026 | U...Black Hole, Charles BurnsI. of the (excellent) Weird Studies podcast on the (excellent) graphic novel (1995), J.F. Martel asks why mutants and the medium of comics have had such a love affair over the years. His tentative answer: because comics evolved out of the doodling of bored adolescents.“It’s so easy when you draw a little man with a little hat and a moustache to give him a tail or horns. The medium invites a kind of amorphousness, a del...