Shatter the battery, unleash the Age of Bronze!
If you’re a comics nerd with any exposure to books of the early 1970s, you’ve undoubtedly seen this cover. The story inside, Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ “No Evil Shall …
Author: frasersherman
Seduced by old trade paperbacks
(So given our ongoing tech problems it occurred to me I could work around them by reposting some of my earliest columns, as I have all the illustrations I need. …
Bond in the age of AIDS? Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights
A couple of years back I began looking at the first film of the various James Bond actors, then stopped after Live and Let Die. As our current can’t-load-images problem …
It’s not easy always rooting for the antihero
(Title courtesy of Taylor Swift. I’m not a Swiftie but I do like her music). “Antihero” is a word that covers a lot of ground. For example, we have characters …
Stick to the status quo … or don’t
Sticking to the status quo is an understandable impulse, especially in any sort of series. If you’ve got a formula that works, why change it? Especially if you have …
Anachronism
(Another repost from my own blog) One of the many classic moments in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is when King Arthur confronts a peasant who insists that his …
Why yes, diversity is a plus.
(Another repost from my own blog from years back). A couple of weeks back, I was browsing a blog post suffused with nostalgia for blacksploitation movies—which I admit to being …