Shall we look at some interesting cover art? Yes, we shall
As my paying gigs (or hopefully paying in the case of fiction) are taking up a lot of energy, this is the best I can manage. But it’s eye candy, …
Month: March 2022
Once they were ordinary women but now …
In the Silver Age, the vast majority of super-hero love interests were ordinary humans. Since then, as someone recently pointed out to me, a surprising number have become superheroes or …
Question of the Week: What’s your favorite album by a ‘short-lived’ band?
The Academy Awards are over, so it’s back to music for this week’s Question!
The spy on whom the sun never sets: James Bond and England
When Ian Fleming published the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953, Britain was widely seen as a nation in a decline. During the war years, the UK had been …
Review: ‘American Comics: A History’: Comprehensive & Fascinating
American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber is perhaps the most accurately named book that I’ve ever read. It covers the history of all genres and eras of comics and …