My nerdy interest in golems paid off!
Ever since I first read Marvel’s short-lived Golem series in Strange Tales, golems have fascinated me. I’m not sure what intrigued me about them, though it definitely wasn’t the series’ …
Month: September 2022
A trickle that became an overwhelming flood: New Mutants
Reading the New Mutants’ debut in their eponymous 1982 graphic novel is really strange forty years later. Not that it’s aged badly. The story of Professor X reluctantly recruiting a …
‘It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane’
“Do you know how difficult it is to be a superhero in Portland?” The kid just stared, slack-jawed and bored. He considered the question, but barely. There was hardly any …
If WW II were this easy, we’d have won it in 1942
When I signed up for the Marvel app to help with my Silver Age rereading, I discovered it included Sgt. Fury. Even though I wasn’t a fan, I added it …
Dying is easy. Indexing is hard.
So early last month my publisher, McFarland, sent me the PDF containing the edited manuscript for The Aliens Are Here. My mission: check it for any errors that slipped through, …