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Hello,
My name is Nicholas Gray and I am a PhD student at the department of Geography, University College London. I am here today to ask you, the community, to help me with my PhD research project. I am interested in comic audience’s engagements with themes of terrorism within the Superhero genre. My research is a product of the first decade of our current century with the post-9/11 War on Terror and the influences that this has had on global audiences and media, with particular attention to superhero comic books.

It was early 2001 that I myself begun to get into comics and started by sifting through collections of Batman and Nightwing, and have since become a massive fan and collector of a number of tutles. My favourite comics are 'Batman and Robin', 'Secret Six' and 'Booster Gold' (although I am to lose two of these come September) and am looking forward to the return of Nightwing. I am therefore here as both fan and scholar to ask for the wider communities views on these themes and ideas of terrorism within the superhero genre of comics.

I have created a series of online questionnaires, one of which is designed specifically for comic readers to express their views. I was therefore wondering if you could spare approximately 15 minutes of your time to complete this questionnaire. As a sweetener all those that complete the questionnaire will be entered into a draw for a £10 Amazon.co.uk (or Amazon.com if not UK based) voucher.

I am UK based, but I am looking for a more global understanding of various issues for the online questionnaire.
The questionnaire is located at:

COMIC FANS QUESTIONNAIRE http://tinyurl.com/ComicPhD1

This link will take you to the questionnaire (created using Google Documents) which should be viewable on all major internet browsers and many mobile phone browsers.

If you choose to take part and know of others local to you within household, family and friendship groups that may be interested then please feel free to pass the information of this project onto them.

Further if you have members of your family, household or friendship groups that do not read comics and would be interested In taking part in some research then please direct them to this alternate questionnaire at:

NON-READERS QUESTIONNAIRE http://tinyurl.com/ComicPhD2

I thank you for taking the time to read this post and I thank all those who choose to take part.

Yours Gratefully

Nicholas Gray
 
Done, not as lengthy as i thought it'll be

and PS, theres always justice league international and justice league dark. im sure they'll be good replacements
 
Thanks guys, glad that it wasn't too painful. I hate overly long questionnaires that don't get to the point as quickly as possible, so tried to make sure it got only the information I want and really need.

I have already highlighted Justice League International, am hoping that it keeps the high levels of 'bwahahaha' currently found in Booster Gold :)
 
Submitted pal.
 
Very good survey, thanks so much for the opportunity to participate.
 
Good Afternoon fellow DC readers,
I'm still looking for participants in my research project so if anyone else is interested in taking part then they should feel free to submit a questionnaire entry.

Hope that the reshuffle and reboot isn't causing you all problems as to what to get come September. Have decided my list come September is going to be significantly shorter :(

Best Wishes

Nick
 

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