“She could never love me!” Comics and disability cliches
For me, the best kind of film reference book is one that makes me see movies with fresh eyes. Even movies that weren’t covered in the book. For example, Heather …
Author: frasersherman
An unusual role for a woman: Karel Sorensen
Revisiting the old Star Rovers stories as part of my Silver Age reread, I suddenly realized how unusual a character Karel Sorensen was. The Star Rovers debuted as a backup …
I did not care, at all, how this strange state of affairs had come to pass
Reading BLACK WIDOW: The Ties That Bind by Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande earlier this year made me realize the way I read comics has changed. I picked up the …
Our place in the universe
In the course of writing Alien Visitors I spent a lot of time with Keep Watching the Skies, Bill Warren’s landmark book on 1950s SF movies. One observation Warren makes is …
Cover date: July, 1964
Now that Alien Visitors is in the tank, I can resume my Silver Age rereading. This week I picked up where I left off, with comics cover-dated July 1964. This …
Woman, manhood and extraterrestrials
(In addition to posting new stuff again, I’m going to cross-post some of what I wrote on my own blog about the movies I’ve watched for Alien Visitors, just to …
Three things to vent about
Not the post I’d planned to write, but three different things in three different media irked me this week, so — 1)The TPB of Punk Mambo by Cullen Bunn and …