Stick to the status quo … or don’t
Sticking to the status quo is an understandable impulse, especially in any sort of series. If you’ve got a formula that works, why change it? Especially if you have …
Author: frasersherman
Anachronism
(Another repost from my own blog) One of the many classic moments in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is when King Arthur confronts a peasant who insists that his …
Why yes, diversity is a plus.
(Another repost from my own blog from years back). A couple of weeks back, I was browsing a blog post suffused with nostalgia for blacksploitation movies—which I admit to being …
Losers, robots and spiders
As I’ve mentioned before in this Silver Age reread, I’ve never been a war comics fan, and I was barely reading any comics from the start of ’69 until 1972. …
Not just Neal Adams: Batman in December of 1969
“Secret of the Waiting Graves” in Detective Comics #395 marked the beginning of the Neal Adams/Denny O’Neil era of Batman, successor to the Silver Age’s New Look. While O’Neil and …
Advertising in comics from the end of ’69.
Do they still sell song books? Back in that era lots of us practiced plucking guitar to popular tunes — though not me, I was musically useless. I’ve never heard …
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them
(Another repost from my own blog) The title is a quote from Malvolio in Twelfth Night, a role I got to play in a local production many years ago (and …