Adam Warlock’s first series wasn’t perfect. Coming out in 1972, however, it was perfectly timed. I can’t imagine Marvel trying a religious allegory (“My dream casting is High Evolutionary as …
Last November I read an alarming Twitter thread from Cory Doctorow on Disney refusing to pay Alan Dean Foster royalties. Foster was the author (uncredited) of the original Star Wars …
Back in 1968, I kept seeing ads asking “Bat Lash—Will He Save the West or Ruin It?” I had no clue who or what Bat Lash was, and no way …
If you don’t think about it much, the Marvel and DC universes look like they have Christianity as their operating system. We’ve seen Heaven, often depicted with pearly gates. It …
The Blackhawks, it seems, are not a team made for the modern world. Prior to the short-lived New 52 reboot, their previous two series were both set back in the …
The Forever People was far and away the weakest of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World books. Mister Miracle had colorful foes and Scott Free’s determination to be free of Apokalips (and “He cheats …
Back in the Silver Age, DC was always including one-page features to help us kids be better people. Reading them I learned to treat others as I’d like to be …
