DC’s sensational character finds of 1965!
(Or more precisely the end of 1964 through the beginning of 1966, going, as usual, by cover dates). One of the joys of my Silver Age reread is when I …
Author: frasersherman
The blackest Bond: Live and Let Die
1973’s Live and Let Die is a reminder that the course of any serialized entertainment — comics, TV, film series — is often dictated by outside events and backstage struggles …
The Ripper and the Baronet: my novel Questionable Minds is out
Some decades back, I wrote a novel. Okay, I’ve actually written several unpublished novels. Questionable Minds was my fifth. By that point I’d gained enough experience that when I looked …
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 …
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 …