The Sweet Glow of Electric Sex
When I was living in Shalimar Florida in the early 1970s, there was a drive-in just a couple of miles from our house. I never went. Even after I got …
Author: frasersherman
There’s no “I” in team: Patterns in DC’s Silver Age non-super teams
In hindsight, everyone agrees that Jack Kirby’s 1956 creation of the Challengers of the Unknown was a dry run for what he and Stan Lee perfected five years later when …
Scooby Doo, Where Are You? All mashed up in the DCU!
When Gorilla City is haunted by a ghost, and Flash’s speed isn’t enough to help …When hard-traveling heroes Green Arrow and Green Lantern arrive in groovy Karma Corners during a …
The vanishing bookshelf
Like so many of us, my shelf of “to be read” books has always been long. While I set some limits on myself — there’s no point to spending money …
The T in James T. Kirk does not stand for tomcat
Even before Chris Pine gave us a hotheaded, womanizing Jim Kirk in the Star Trek reboot films, lots of people, including Star Trek fans, though of James Tiberius Kirk that …
Starfish, snail mail and the Silver Age Justice League
The starfish, of course, appeared on the cover of the Justice League’s debut. The first time I read “Starro the Conqueror” it was a reprint in an 80-page Giant. I …
Me, movies and movie books
So last week I signed a contract with McFarland Publishers for a book, due next year, on Alien Visitors (working title): ET invaders, alien/human romance, friendly aliens, alien superheroes, aliens …