Month: September 2020
Some TV shows I’ve recently watched
Like many others, the pandemic and sheltering in place has left me with more than the usual amount of spare time. So I took the opportunity to watch a few of the many, much-hyped, new(ish) TV series.
Dick York After ‘Bewitched’
A Facebook friend mentioned Bewitched’s Dick York in a post; I replied with a comment, which Greg Hatcher saw, and he thought it should be a post here. His reasoning, …
Comics You Should Own – ‘Fantastic Four’ #347-349
Watch Marvel make fun of themselves in epic fashion!
A retrospective on the career of President Prez Rickard: Prez, #1-4
Joe Simon created many loopy characters and ideas in the Bronze Age, but none more memorable than Prez. Most of them — The Outsiders, The Green Team — aren’t memorable …
Octavia Butler’s Parables for a Troubled Time
Recently I revisited books by the late, great Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, which are rather apposite reading material for our troubled times
DC’s Second Golden Age
When comics fans talk about “DC Rebirth,” they mean the branding from a couple of years back. But whenever I hear the expression, I always think of a different time from decades ago.