OSHA has an important safety tip for you!
Dramatized on this cover by Jack Sparling for a DC public service announcement!Depressingly, surveys indicate that 100 percent of DC cover-story characters never listen to these safety guidelines. #SFWApro.
Author: frasersherman
The Widow gets dangerous: Sting of the Widow
Reading Black Widow: Sting of the Widow alongside my Silver Age reread made me much more aware what a game-changer the early 1970s was for Natasha. Though the collection includes …
What, if anything, is a Lovecraftian story?
My short story The Happiest Place on Earth is now available for purchase in the LOLcraft anthology of Lovecraftian humor. Which is, of course, a contradiction in terms. Just as …
Getting out of Egypt (a slightly late MLK Day post)
Twelve years ago I wrote at my own blog about Martin Luther King’s 1957 sermon in Montgomery, Alabama. Sparked by Ghana’s independence from the British Empire it discusses, in part, …
New faces of the Silver Age (not that I ever saw their faces back then).
In 1965 and 1966, change was in the air. New names were writing the comics I liked, as well as the books I didn’t care about. The new generation of …
Lightning didn’t strike: Black Adam (2022)
Black Adam (2022) is yet another failed attempt to make the DC Extended Universe a living thing. The box office was unsatisfying and DCEU co-chief James Gunn has ruled out …
The Silver Age in 1966: more than just Marvel and DC
As I’ve mentioned previously, DC in 1965 looked very different from when the era started in 1956. Marvel isn’t the same company either. Western comics are fading away, though they’d …