His Story Is … Unwritten
Back in 2019 (this is another repost from my own blog), I finished rereading the 2009-13 Vertigo series Unwritten, created by Mike Carey and Peter Gross. It held up well. …
Category: Comics
Discarding characters to die in the gutter
One of the things that annoys me about 21st century comics is that along with the impulse to get back to the Silver (or at least the Bronze) Age versions …
Does this mean Aunt May could beat me up? “Ordinary” people in comic books
A couple of years back I was reading a comics thread online in which someone posed a question: are even ordinary people in the MU and DCU superhuman by real-world …
What is the point of Sherlock Holmes?
When I attended the Mysticon SF con back in 2018, one of the panels I sat on was on Sherlock Holmes, particularly the TV series Sherlock and Elementary. At some …
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 …
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 …