Hello and welcome to Episode 14 of the Macroverse Dispatch! With Supergirl coming this week, Spider-Man spinning his way back into cinemas in late July, and the upcoming animated Rogue Trooper (from UK weekly stalwart 2000AD and a personal favourite of mine), it felt like an appropriate time to do a dive into adaptations of comics into movies, and specifically what gets lost when comics become films.

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This week we’re running the clock back a good long way to look at one of the great, great grandfather’s of modern comics, a series of engravings published in 1735. The series had Dickensian character names, social satire, morality… oh, and the creator also accidentally invented copyright law.

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It’s Pride month, so this week I'm tracking the long, strange, frequently embarrassing but ultimately rather heartening story of how comics dealt - and continue to deal - with LGBTQ+ characters, creators, and readers.

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