Month: March 2019
When Arkham Asylum was comedy gold: The Joker, Clown Prince of Crime
Until I reread the 1975-6 The Joker series (now collected in the Joker: Clown Prince of Crime TPB) I’d forgotten that Arkham Asylum was once a fun place to be …
Just a Drive-By, Sort-Of Column.
No real column this week, but here’s a little something to tide you over.
Earth One, where comic books are just like ours, only different
Roy Thomas transformed Earth-One’s comic books without even trying. Or probably even thinking about it. Up until Thomas wrote All-Star Squadron, it was canon that Earth-One in the 1940s had …
Comics You Should Own – ‘Wasteland’
Post-apocalyptic stories might be a bit dime-a-dozen, but when they’re as good as this one, you should take notice!
Captain Marvel: The Paradigm Shift
Marvel’s Captain Marvel represents a paradigm shift in popular entertainment. Much like Disney’s Moana, this is a film that’s more noteworthy for what’s not there; there’s no romantic subplot, no …
It’s time once again to consider some semi-recent movies!
Yep, it’s time for me to blather on about even more movies!