Popular Culture Review Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2000 | Page 39

Transsexing Technological Man: (Re)Writing the Comic Book Male/ Scientist in Sw am p Thing Comic books are full o f superheroes defined or empowered by miracles of technology and/or science: Batman, his utility belt full of crime-fighting tools and tricks; Spiderman, bitten and transformed by a radioactive spider; Superman, whose amazing abilities were originally introduced as scient