My Secret, Entirely Head-Canon History of Homo Magi
If you’re wondering how Homo magi, something Gerry Conway came up with in 1979, fits into my Silver Age reread — well, Superboy #175 (cover by Neal Adams) came out in …
Author: frasersherman
Continuity: it matters behind the scenes too
There’s no question a lot of the Bronze Age was solid gold. Steve Englehart’s Avengers. Tomb of Dracula. Starlin’s Warlock and Captain Marvel. Plus less spectacular but solidly entertaining books such as Cary Bates …
In the Bronze Age, the past wasn’t dead. It wasn’t even past
As I’ve mentioned before, the early Bronze Age was an age of reprints. By 1971 DC, in particular, was all in. For the comics cover-dated August 1971, they raised the …
More crimes of the century
And this time the culprit is the U.S. government! THE PLUTONIUM FILES: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome is a grimly detailed reminder that movie …
Childhood’s end: one book, one miniseries
(It’s been another hectic week so it’s reprints from my own blog this week) One of the sad but inevitable parts of growing older is watching Great Masters of Science …
May your doom be nice
As y’all must know, Damage Control was a series by Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colon dealing with the company that cleans up after superhero battles, alien invasions, giant robot clashes, etc. …
“I’ll commit the crime of the century — this century and all the centuries to come!”
The title comes from Moriarty’s (John Huston) boast to Sherlock Holmes (Roger Moore) in the 1976 TV movie Sherlock Holmes in New York. It’s an ambitious boast; unless someone commits …