Deconstruction: From Wikipedia, "Deconstruction is the name given by French philosopher Jacques Derrida to an approach (whether in philosophy, literary analysis, or in other fields) which rigorously pursues the meaning of a text to the point of undoing the oppositions on which it is apparently founded, and to the point of showing that those foundations are irreducibly complex, unstable or, indeed, impossible." By which it is a specific work that examines the basic premises and assumptions of a larger body of work and, in said examination, makes the attempt to understand what does or does not make said premises and assumptions succeed when placed under genuine scrutiny.
Reconstruction: From TV Tropes, "Reconstruction is possibly best defined in terms of the deconstruction that almost always precedes it. If deconstruction is the tearing down of a genre, then reconstruction is, naturally, an attempt to raise it from the ashes. If deconstruction is the firm, merciless hand of reality smashing down on the illusions we build to escape it, then reconstruction is the process of creating a newer, better dream in its place. While deconstruction seeks out the flaws in a theme or genre with malicious intent, reconstruction is a non-ironic celebration of what captured our interest in the first place."
Kingdom Come: A miniseries produced by DC comics examining current and past trends in superhero comics as told in a superhero comic, dealing with paragons of various eras, styles, and moral codes.
Animal Man: A fairly absurd superhero who, in the books suggested to me, was used by the author to examine the very medium of the stories and the "fourth wall" and the idea of metafiction, as well as blurring the reality of the writer and the world of his story.
Astro City: Throwback to the Silver Age when superheroes were unabashedly entertainment and idealistic characters, with modern writing influences that allow for a level of maturity in the discourse itself and growth of the characters, as well as their personalities and lives.
Powers: Similar to Astro City with a far more adult bent, rather than focusing on various people in a larger city it centers on the homicide division of a police force in a city with superheroes, dealing with the reality that one would encounter in such a place, such as the difficulties in performing autopsies on someone who's invulnerable.
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Reconstruction: From TV Tropes, "Reconstruction is possibly best defined in terms of the deconstruction that almost always precedes it. If deconstruction is the tearing down of a genre, then reconstruction is, naturally, an attempt to raise it from the ashes. If deconstruction is the firm, merciless hand of reality smashing down on the illusions we build to escape it, then reconstruction is the process of creating a newer, better dream in its place. While deconstruction seeks out the flaws in a theme or genre with malicious intent, reconstruction is a non-ironic celebration of what captured our interest in the first place."
Kingdom Come: A miniseries produced by DC comics examining current and past trends in superhero comics as told in a superhero comic, dealing with paragons of various eras, styles, and moral codes.
Animal Man: A fairly absurd superhero who, in the books suggested to me, was used by the author to examine the very medium of the stories and the "fourth wall" and the idea of metafiction, as well as blurring the reality of the writer and the world of his story.
Astro City: Throwback to the Silver Age when superheroes were unabashedly entertainment and idealistic characters, with modern writing influences that allow for a level of maturity in the discourse itself and growth of the characters, as well as their personalities and lives.
Powers: Similar to Astro City with a far more adult bent, rather than focusing on various people in a larger city it centers on the homicide division of a police force in a city with superheroes, dealing with the reality that one would encounter in such a place, such as the difficulties in performing autopsies on someone who's invulnerable.