A world without superheroes: The birth of the Silver Age
Intellectually, I’ve known for years that between the Golden Age ending and the debut of Barry Allen in Showcase #4, superheroes were mostly dead in the water. My recent rereading …
Month: May 2019
Sports wrap-up – 14 May 2019
I have to stop watching sports. They’re going to give me a heart attack.
Bootleggers and Killers and Spies and Other Hard Cases
I have been getting a bunch of cool crime books in here lately, so let’s do a quick rundown of the ones I think are worth sharing.
Has political correctness run amok in comics?!?!?
I love a good controversial title for a post, don’t you?
Forgotten Cool: Let’s Get Small
Been thinking about lesser-known tiny adventurers lately; the CMDF, the City Under the Back Steps, and the Micronauts…. no, the OTHER ones.
After the Crisis: Comic Books on DC’s Post-Crisis Earth
Crisis on Infinite Earths not only upended DC’s continuity, it upended the Earth-One and Earth Two comic-book industries. In the aftermath of the multiverse merging, comics changed radically and ended …