Evans, Woody2015-12-172015-12-172014Evans, Woody. 2014. "Why They Won't Save Us: Political Dispositions in the Conflicts of Superheroes." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2014.0533.http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2014.0533http://hdl.handle.net/11274/7489Comic book superheroes tend to be conservative and their opponents progressive. Here I explore the reasons for heroic conservatism, review recent disruptions to the trend, and consider what superhuman politics can tell us about our own transhuman and science fictional conditions.en-USComics; Conservatism; PoliticsArticle