Behold the birth of Bond! Dr. No (1962)
The first film in a series often isn’t typical. As with comics, the elements that come to define a series often aren’t there at the first, and that’s somewhat true …
Author: frasersherman
Gotcha day!
Oct. 27th was what’s now called Gotcha Day for our two adopted dogs, Dudley and Trixie, who came home for the first time eight years ago. So, as cute pets …
She was in my mind for years before I finally wrote her story
I must have been in the United States little over a year when I picked up my first Doc Savage novel, Devil On The Moon. It may have been pure …
The X-Men: too much the model minority?
Chris Claremont’s handling of anti-mutant discrimination was a major part of what elevated the X-Men from second-string to A-liserst. In his hands (and others, of course), bigotry provided a source …
V — not just for victory!
Now that my The Aliens Are Here is finally out, I thought I’d mark the occasion by reposting a piece from my own blog about 1983’s V and what a …
Mars needs … Christians? Red Planet Mars
Back in the 1980s, conservatives began holding up the 1950s as a utopia. A peaceful, united nation full of happy nuclear families resembling 1950s sitcoms (mom at home, dad at …
Kids These Days
I’m guessing most of y’all have seen one of those Beloit College lists that go around every year, reminding teachers of what Kids These Days are like. If you were …