A trickle that became an overwhelming flood: New Mutants
Reading the New Mutants’ debut in their eponymous 1982 graphic novel is really strange forty years later. Not that it’s aged badly. The story of Professor X reluctantly recruiting a …
Author: frasersherman
If WW II were this easy, we’d have won it in 1942
When I signed up for the Marvel app to help with my Silver Age rereading, I discovered it included Sgt. Fury. Even though I wasn’t a fan, I added it …
Dying is easy. Indexing is hard.
So early last month my publisher, McFarland, sent me the PDF containing the edited manuscript for The Aliens Are Here. My mission: check it for any errors that slipped through, …
Wonder Woman: The messy end of the Diana Prince years
One thing about the “white pantsuit” era of Wonder Woman (though she didn’t wear that outfit half as much as people remember), it didn’t stick to a formula.After setting up …
Love, exciting and new!
What are the romance tropes you just can’t stand?I’m not talking about the toxic stuff, just tropes that get under your skin and annoy you. And I’m not showing these …
Daredevil, Thor, the Teen Titans: short notes from the Silver Age
While it’s fun going into detail about particular issues or trends as I reread the Silver Age, 1965 has simply more going on than I can blog in detail about. …
I Ching Is the Book of Changes and Wonder Woman Certainly Changed
The reboot that turned Wonder Woman into Diana Prince, martial artist, crimefighter and adventurer, began with a four issue arc from Wonder Woman #179 through #182. #178 showed Diana Prince …