A Legacy of Near-Excellence

It's been encouraging to see so many of you take an interest in the exciting field of Korvac studies.  To learn more, head down to your local university library, proceed to the Korvac section (Library of Congress call number PN6725.K1978) and check out the best work in the past five years of Korvac scholarship:

The Institute for Korvac Studies Award for Excellence in Korvac Studies ("the Korvie")

2006 Winner:  “Cyborg, Schmyborg: Donna Haraway Didn’t Say Anything About Aryans in Tennis Shorts” -- Joseph “Rusty” Witek

Runner-up:  “Queering the Gendered Other: Butler, Sedgwick, Korvac” -- Marc Singer

2005 Winner:  “Barefoot and Android” -- Amy Kiste Nyberg

Runner-up:  “Of Thor’s Hammer, Hawkeye’s Shafts, and Wonder Man’s Safari Jacket: Three Studies in Overcompensation” -- Marc Singer

2004 Winner:  “Lo, Derrida, Thou Facest THOR!: Decentering the Privileged Signifer Through Fake Shakespearean Dialect” -- Jason Tondro

Runner-up:  “It’s Just Too Damn Easy: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Ultron” --Marc Singer

2003 Winner:  “‘She Hauls Off and BELTS People—Like a MAN Would!’: Ms. Marvel, Kate Millett, and the Ethical Limitations of Second-Wave Feminism” -- Nicole Freim

Runner-up:  “Did Anybody Notice One of These Superheroes Is a Dude Who Can Turn into a Chick? I Think We Should Talk About That: Ziggy Starhawk and the Guardians of the Galaxy” -- Marc Singer

2002 Winner:  “A Self-Reflexive Analysis of Fan Mentality and the Restoration of the Benjaminian Aura as Exchange Value Supplants Use Value in the Emerging Speculator Market of the Late 1970s as Seen in the Intermediary Subplot of the Korvac Saga, or, Man, the Collector Sure Is Lame” -- “Doctor” Gene Kannenberg, Jr.

Runner-up:  “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, I Made You Out of Hate: Korvac as Self-Loathing Jew” -- Marc Singer

One day you will be mine, Korvie... you will be mine.

Comments

[Dave Van Domelen]

Cheer up, one of these days you won't be a runner-up.

AND THEN THE FOOLS AT THE ACACEMY WILL RUE THE DAY!

Ahem.

[Dave Van Domelen]

And then, there will also be rueing at the AcaDemy.

[Marc]

Oh no, those fools at the ACACEMY (Academic Cartel of Assholes Crushing Every one of My Yearnings) will also have some rueing to do.

[Goat]

I don't know... Four silver medals might be better than a gold...

[David Oakes]

I think 2004 sums it all up. You have *got* to bring your A game to these things, Marc. Nobody remembers the runner-up, unless you are Susan Lucci.

[Marc]

You don't think "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel" was my A game???

[David Oakes]

As my thesis advisor enjoyed saying, "I know you can do better."

Just look at what beat "Dreidel". “Dr” Kannenberg gave us a title longer than most papers. And the effort shows. Each and every one of the winners blazed bright across the academic stratosphere, then retired to rest on their laurels. While you continue to waste your talents by providing solid analysis in a consitent theoretical framework year after year.

You just don't get scholarship, do you Singer?

[David Van Domelen]

Why, to get published in the New Journal of Malology, the abstract alone must be capable of causing madness in at least 5% of the population.

[Marc]

No, David (Oakes), I can only wish academia had the high scholarly standards of the internet.

[Scavenger]

Well, I hate to say it, but as you're work has focused on Judaism, gender identity, sexual orientation and parental legacies, it becomes all too clear why you don't win.

The panel is obviously made up of self loathing Jewish drag queens with daddy issues.

[Marc]

Aha! You hear that, Kannenberg?!?