ASHES IN THE GUTTER: 9/11 AND THE SERIALIZATION OF MEMORY IN DC COMICS' HUMAN TARGET.

The article discusses the serialization of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the "Human Target" comic series published by DC Comics Inc. The disaster was encapsulated in the story "The Unshredded Man," written by Peter Milligan with art by Javier Pulido. Words and image combined to illustrate fiction and reality. The narrator's act of fictional remembrance demanded remembrance from readers. The manner in which Milligan and Pulido serialized and sequenced the events of September 11 enjoined readers to fill in the blanks that separated the images and events that were, and were not, depicted.