Steve Rogers, you did her wrong.
Silver Age Marvel did not do well by the MU’s women. Someone once described DC’s love interests as Katherine Hepburn — confident, capable, often with professional jobs (lawyer, cop, reporter, …
Author: frasersherman
Adventure Comics #395 as a time capsule
Robert Kanigher’s first story in Adventure Comics #395 (cover by Curt Swam) is a product of its time — not so much the story itself but a couple of images. …
Blumhouse tried reinventing two classic horror films. Only one worked.
(These are two movie reviews cross-posted from my own blog). The Invisible Man (2020) hooked me from the opening sequence in which Cecilia (Elizabeth Moss) sneaks away from her husband …
Jekyll and Hyde as cocaine cowboys? Well it was the 1980s …
It’s not surprising the 1980s would give us not one but two movies showing Dr. Jekyll’s secret for becoming Mr. Hyde was cocaine. Cocaine was dazzlingly hip in the 1980s. …
Enter the Bronze (Age) Widow! Natasha gets dangerous
As I’ve discussed in several recent posts, lots of heroes disappeared or rebooted, as comics moved into the 1970s. The Black Widow’s reboot was one of the successful ones, as …
Thinning the herd
In blogging last week about the Silver-to-Bronze Age transition, one thing I didn’t talk much about is the stuff we didn’t see in the early Bronze Age. That is, the …
A film so nice, Howard Hawks made it twice!
When I was working on The Aliens Are Here, I spotlighted both the Howard Hawks Thing From Another World (officially directed by his protege Christian Nyby but there’s a good case …