Far out, man!
Flipping through one of my comics from 1971 for my Silver Age Reread, I came upon this ad. Posters, the environment, peace symbols, Easy Rider …
Author: frasersherman
The Powers That Be
It’s depressing and horrifying to see big news organizations roll over and submit rather than confront the necrotic toddler in the Oval Office. Bari Weiss, CBS news head, spiking a 60 …
“Joe, I got an idea — I think it’s the one we’ve been waiting for.”
(Seven years ago, I ran a series of blog posts about what the comic books of Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-616 were like. As my own writing or real-life events keep sucking …
Whom do you trust?
Well over a decade ago, someone in a comments thread — I think it was in Peter David’s blog, discussing his writing on She-Hulk — said their gold standard for superheroes …
Teen Titans #32: The Mystery Endures
(Another reposted column that fits into my Silver Age Reread). No, not a mystery in the story or about the story. The mystery is why the hell I bought it. …
Groundbreakers and dead ends, swords and sorcerers
As I mentioned last week, Captain Comet could have jump-started the Silver Age, but instead he went nowhere, After debuting in 1951 in Strange Adventures #9, his series in Strange Adventures ran …
“There is no one bedrock of reality” is an odd theme for Thanksgiving, but hear me out
(Crossposted from my own blog). There are multiple stories I’ve seen or read over the years where the protagonist is living a happy life, then the terrorists/mobsters/white supremacists/demon worshippers push …