My strange fascination with DC’s Tomahawk
Tom Hawk — Revolutionary War scout, “Indian fighter” and “America’s favorite frontier hero” intrigues the hell out of me. Not that I have a burning urge to buy up some …
Author: frasersherman
“Save Hitler? That’s not what you do with a time machine!” — SyFy’s 12 Monkeys
Late last year I discovered that Hulu was finally streaming the fourth and final season of SyFy’s 12 Monkeys TV series. In the lag between Christmas and the second half …
“He who possesses this weapon possesses the whole world”: The Death Ray Mirror of Dr. Mabuse
In 1964 the Dr. Mabuse series ended with a whimper. The Death Ray Mirror of Doctor Mabuse (also known as just The Death Ray of Doctor Mabuse) is better than …
Christmas: A Day So Nice They Did It Twice (and Sometimes More)
The Christmas movie, like any other film genre, doesn’t stay constant. Even though Hallmark and Netflix Christmas rom-coms seem to grab the greatest share of attention these days, they’re not …
Tom King Will Never Be a Co-Creator of Batman
So in response to a recent Twitter call for “most controversial Batman opinion,” Tom King responded that the O’Neil/Adams team, Englehart/Rogers and Frank Miller should get co-creator credit alongside Bob …
Terminator: Trying to Sort Out The Timelines
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) didn’t set fire to the box office, but if it’s the final film in the franchise (I wouldn’t bet on it) it’s still better than 2015’s …
“Stan, Dr. Doom’s suing us for libel. Oh, and our office just exploded”
How exactly do comics publishers in the MU and DCU survive? Here they are, printing stories about people who commit multiple murders on a whim, or freeze entire cities instantly. …