A for Effort, F for Execution: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land
I’m confident everyone reading this blog has seen at least one work of fiction where a great concept was ruined by terrible execution. William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land is …
Author: frasersherman
You know what would make this character truly sing? Make them generic!
The Gladiator wasn’t a good villain when he debuted in Daredevil #18 — Silver Age Daredevil didn’t do good villains — but at least he stood out. As with the …
Reboots will occur this night
Reboots have been around almost as long as comics. In the Golden Age, for instance, we had Doctor Fate turning from a mysterious helmeted sorcerer into a wise-cracking, two-fisted crimebuster. …
You’re a wonder, Wonder Woman
One of the great things about the DC/Marvel Omnibus books is that I appreciate the art better than I ever did in the comics themselves. For example, this Andru/Esposito sequence …
Asgardian love, exciting and new
The love affair between Thor and Jane Foster was a staple of Thor’s strip from the beginning. In Thor #136, it came to an end. It wasn’t a well-written relationship …
More pages from late 1966
As I’ve mentioned before, Batman #189 brought back the Scarecrow after twenty-three years of obscurity. He would become a regular foe of the Dark Knight from that point on. The …
Reaction shots
At the climax of Starman (1984), Jeff Bridges assumes his true alien form and ascends to his shining starship overhead. We don’t see this happen, we simply see it on …