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Fraser was born in England, but spent most of his life in the Florida Panhandle. He'd be there still if he hadn't met his dream woman and moved to Durham NC to marry her. In between writing fantasy short stories and film reference books, he reads, watches movies and cooks. He blogs more frequently at frasersherman.wordpress.com
“Corpses are part of our business”: The Terror of Dr. Mabuse
Movies

“Corpses are part of our business”: The Terror of Dr. Mabuse

By frasersherman April 22, 2019 April 22, 2019 2

As a kid, German filmmaker Artur Brauner slipped out of the house to catch Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and fell in love. He wasn’t able to convince …

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When Arkham Asylum was comedy gold: The Joker, Clown Prince of Crime
Comics, Comics Reviews

When Arkham Asylum was comedy gold: The Joker, Clown Prince of Crime

By frasersherman March 26, 2019 March 26, 2019 12

Until I reread the 1975-6 The Joker series (now collected in the Joker: Clown Prince of Crime TPB) I’d forgotten that Arkham Asylum was once a fun place to be …

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Earth One, where comic books are just like ours, only different
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Earth One, where comic books are just like ours, only different

By frasersherman March 21, 2019 March 21, 2019 3

Roy Thomas transformed Earth-One’s comic books without even trying. Or probably even thinking about it. Up until Thomas wrote All-Star Squadron, it was canon that Earth-One in the 1940s had …

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Art takes practice. This shouldn’t surprise people.
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Art takes practice. This shouldn’t surprise people.

By frasersherman January 28, 2019 January 27, 2019 0

One of the things I love about Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is that it acknowledges that being a successful performer takes work. Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is a 1950s …

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A product of its time, but not in a bad way: Skull the Slayer
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A product of its time, but not in a bad way: Skull the Slayer

By frasersherman January 14, 2019 January 13, 2019 8

Usually “a product of time” identifies books (or people) with unsavory qualities such as the antisemitism and racism in H. Rider Haggard’s The People of the Mist. While Skull the …

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Just shoot him already! Morgan and Mace of the Suicide Squad
Comics, Comics Reviews

Just shoot him already! Morgan and Mace of the Suicide Squad

By frasersherman January 7, 2019 December 27, 2018 0

Successful formula fiction requires two things. First, a formula that works when it’s reused over and over. Second, characters who make the formula interesting; as Roger Ebert once put it, …

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The loneliest miser: another look at Christmas Carol
Books, Christmas, Movies

The loneliest miser: another look at Christmas Carol

By frasersherman December 21, 2018 December 21, 2018 7

Last year Greg Hatcher discussed why he loves A Christmas Carol despite a general distaste for Christmas because “someone finally convinces a rich asshole to stop being a jerk to …

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