‘Beatitudes’
She held the rock in her hand like a wounded animal. A voice in her head told her to throw it. It sang lively songs to her about victory over …
Month: August 2022
Taniguchi’s quiet epics
I recently went down a rabbit hole reading the work of Jiro Taniguchi, and now I’m back to tell you what I discovered.
Love, exciting and new!
What are the romance tropes you just can’t stand?I’m not talking about the toxic stuff, just tropes that get under your skin and annoy you. And I’m not showing these …
Daredevil, Thor, the Teen Titans: short notes from the Silver Age
While it’s fun going into detail about particular issues or trends as I reread the Silver Age, 1965 has simply more going on than I can blog in detail about. …
‘Convenience Stores and Ancient African Empires’
All Ronald Tremayne wanted that day was a Snapple. A Bali Blast Snapple, a tang of tropical fruit — exotic kiwi, the staple pineapple, the rush of lime. It was …
