The past isn’t dead. It’s not even past
In one of Greg Hatcher’s reprint columns he commented about how much comics material at the time he was writing seemed to be borrowing or homaging older material, targeting older …
Author: frasersherman
Spoiled for Psycho (a question of the week post)
I’m going to make a wild guess that my fellow bloggers and our readers have, at some point in their lives, seen spoilers they’d rather not have known before they …
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to untangle the continuity of Plastic Man
(Title is a paraphrased quote from DC’s Plastic Man #6). Courtesy of the DC app I recently read the first issue of DC’s Silver Age Plastic Man (November, 1966) for …
A few more reboots
Last month I posted about some of DC’s reboots from 1966. Continuing onward in my Silver Age reread, I stumbled across a few more from late that year and early …
Setting records
Back last summer, TYG and I independently came to the same realization: while we were spending more time together since the pandemic got her to work from home (she loves …
Two TV things I watched last year, plus another thing, none of which worked
(Another old post from my own blog) I hate getting rejection letters that say things like “this just didn’t work for me” because that doesn’t help me understand what went …
Two movies, three things that bug me
Shazam: Fury of the Gods (2023) is way better than the first Captain Marvel (he’ll never be Shazam in my head canon!) movie. If nothing else, Lucy Liu and Helen …