It took me several decades to get this joke
Metamorpho #7 is a typical Element Man adventure. Simon Stagg, polymath, attends a conference of the world’s top vulcanologists, only to have someone kidnap them all. By default, the top guy …
Author: frasersherman
A football coach and Lex Luthor (no, they don’t walk into a bar)
As I discussed Monday, multi-part stories make it easy for the creators to change course mid-stream. This isn’t always a bad thing: I think Stan Lee’s change to Warlock’s origin …
They should have stuck the course: Daredevil 12-14
Time to catch up on my Silver Age rereading. When I blogged about how adorable Ka-Zar and Zabu were in Daredevil #12, I said I’d blog more about the issue, …
Looks matter
As I’ve mentioned before, throwing characters away under the assumption they’ll never amount to anything is often a mistake. Sometimes it takes a new writer or a new angle to …
Honor is much overrated
(Another repost from my own blog because I can’t seem to find time for anything more). Some years back, I read a quote from Lois McMaster Bujold that said “Guard …
What if the South had won? Captain Confederacy.
In in light of the recent [when I wrote this on my own blog five years ago] furor over HBO’s Confederates (life in an America where the Confederacy won its independence), …
Let them go down to the dust from which they sprung
(Title courtesy of Sir Walter Scott writing that the man with no love for his native land shall “go down to the vile dust from whence he sprung, unwept, unhonour’d …