Superheroes in decline: Earth-Two comic books during and after WW II
(Reprinting the second of my posts about the comic-book industry as it exists in comics). As you can see above, Earth-Two’s Golden Age of comics probably looked a lot like …
Author: frasersherman
Purge or Hide? Or … will we do both?
(another rewritten post from my own blog). My book on Jekyll and Hyde adaptations is now with the publisher. It has a title, Watching Jekyll and Hyde, with a …
Fashions of the future
As I blogged about back in September, a Legion of Superheroes fan named Kim Metzger hated Saturn Girl’s costume and submitted a redesign. The change immediately attracted a flood of …
Far out, man!
Flipping through one of my comics from 1971 for my Silver Age Reread, I came upon this ad. Posters, the environment, peace symbols, Easy Rider …
The Powers That Be
It’s depressing and horrifying to see big news organizations roll over and submit rather than confront the necrotic toddler in the Oval Office. Bari Weiss, CBS news head, spiking a 60 …
“Joe, I got an idea — I think it’s the one we’ve been waiting for.”
(Seven years ago, I ran a series of blog posts about what the comic books of Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-616 were like. As my own writing or real-life events keep sucking …
Whom do you trust?
Well over a decade ago, someone in a comments thread — I think it was in Peter David’s blog, discussing his writing on She-Hulk — said their gold standard for superheroes …