Exactly how I’d expect Batman to act, yet it didn’t work: Tower of Babel
A few years back, I began rereading my Justice League of America books. As I don’t binge, I’m currently midway through Joe Kelly’s run (I have a lot of JLA …
Author: frasersherman
Something else that annoys me
Yes, I’m venting again, though today’s pet peeve isn’t as irksome as Monday’s. I am not bothered by the Chosen One trope where someone is marked by Destiny to be …
Some characters are not worth the paper they’re drawn on
One of the problems with a medium that requires as many stories every month as comic books is that some uninteresting villains appear much more than they deserve, just to …
A little thing that drives me nuts
So I just finished Jane Yolen and Adam Semple’s The Last Tsar’s Dragons. It’s a story of events leading up to the Russian Revolution, seen through the eyes of Tsar …
Genres and subgenres we hate
As this weekend proved less congenial to blogging than I’d expected (dog-sitting for a friend’s pups), here’s a question of the week instead: is there a genre or sub-genre of …
The Aliens Are Here Is Here!
In other words, the author’s copies of my book, The Aliens Are Here, just showed up at my house.Yeah, somehow I didn’t capture my name under the illustration (from 2008’s …
The Silver Age: Cute, goofy and … lethal?
One of the more annoying cliches about the Silver Age is that it was too utterly silly and lighthearted for the modern, sophisticated adults of today to take seriously, without …