It suddenly occurs to me that bronze and silver are not the same metal
Back in 2022, I settled on March 1972 as the cutoff for my ongoing Silver Age reread. In the grand scheme of things it’s not a particularly significant month. It …
Author: frasersherman
I went in knowing “no battle plan survives contact with the enemy,” and my plan still collapsed!
I had every intention of posting more than four times last month. and for posting something this week as well. As the title quote (usually attributed to Prussian military theorist …
The look of the book
(A cross post from my own blog, inspired by yesterday’s cover-art post). THE LOOK OF THE BOOK: Jackets, Covers and Arts at the Edge of Literature by Peter Mendelsund and …
Even reprints need a better cover than this
One of the trademarks of the Bronze Age was Marvel and DC’s increasing use of reprints. They were cheaper than new material, easier than new material and attracted lots of …
Alien as Immigrant: The Brother From Another Planet
(Another repost from my own blog, prompted by yesterday’s post about black film). Alien immigrants and refugees have been around in movies since It Came From Outer Space(1953). There, though, …
Black comedy (and horror and drama and …)
Another repost of sorts from my own blog, collecting various books reviews on African-Americans and film. BRIGHT BOULEVARDS, BOLD DREAMS: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle looks at …
Marvel’s “War is Hell” isn’t hell to read but it’s closer to hell than heaven.
As Greg Hatcher has remarked in many of his columns, we live in an age when an astonishing amount of old comic book material is available. I completed my set …