Writers, artists, inkers, editors, and readers of comic books and comic book adaptions leave an indelible imprint on cultures across the globe. Popular film adaptions of classical comics characters and narratives, including _Black Panther_, _Wonder Woman_, _Avengers_, and the _X-Men_ series, yield immense profit because of an ongoing yearning to witness strength, perseverance, and heroism in the face of social struggle, political uncertainty, and the many forms of global cruelty and wickedness. Small-screen televisual and digital adaptions of wildly popular comic book series, from the earliest iterations of _Superman_ and _Batman_ to the twenty-first-century installments of _The Flash_, _Black Lightning_, _Luke Cage_, _Jessica Jones_, _Batwoman_, and _Supergirl_, underscore that widespread interest in heroic narratives and increasingly diverse representations of heroic power in comics media remains an enduring impulse over decades of cultural production and across multiple visual platforms. In the academy, we often refer to the various forms of comics as sequential art, which is somewhat of a catchall for all kinds of images in sequence, whether in the form of anime, manga, comic books, graphic novels, zines, television, animation, and film creations and adaptions. Our authors discuss these many forms in this volume. Deborah Elizabeth Whaley has coined the...