My hero, the brain-damaged thug: the odyssey of Guy Gardner
Guy Gardner is another example of how minor characters can become stars. After his debut in Green Lantern #59 he existed for years at the level of trivia-night questions (“Besides …
Author: frasersherman
I looked at DC in September of ’66; now here’s Marvel
Back at the start of April I took a look at some of DC’s books from September of ’66. I wanted to follow up immediately with a Marvel-centered post but …
“A fact so dread,” he faintly said, “extinguishes all hope.”
(Title courtesy of Lewis Carroll. This is a repost from my blog last week). Netflix just announced that at the end of September, it will cease its DVD service. I’m …
It’s embarrassing that I missed this
I’ve been rereading my old X-Men — that is, the Len Wein/Dave Cockrum-created New X-Men — for a while now and recently reached X-Men #183. I remembered disliking it and …
Even in defeat, the Secret Empire remains an enigma
Last month I blogged about the introduction of Marvel’s Secret Empire and pondered why Stan Lee introduced them when AIM was already around. Other than wearing red instead of AIM’s …
JFK, Blown Away
Blogging about conspiracy theories Monday brought to mind one chapter of my Screen Enemies of the American Way, discussing the way movies and TV have handled John F. Kennedy’s assassination, …
Paranoia, paranoia everybody’s coming to get me
Working on my book about paranoia in film, I inevitably wound up reading a lot about it in real life. Not clinical paranoia but political paranoia. As the historian Richard …