Gotham City grifters: the criminal as con man
In my Silver Age reread I’m now in what’s known as the New Look period of Batman that began in 1964. Sales of Batman and Detective Comics were low (I …
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Another Review: The Eternals (MCU)
The Eternals has a reputation as the MCU’s worst movie; but is it deserved?
Satire Is What Closes on a Saturday Night
As part of my research for The Aliens Are Here (which McFarland has settled on as the title for what I’ve been calling Alien Visitors), I rewatched the cheerfully deranged …
What I bought, read, watched, or otherwise consumed – December 2021
It’s a new year, but last year’s comics still need to be reviewed!
At Christmas I felt … the sting of death!
Back in the 1980s I read a mystery, A Taste for Honey by HF Heard. It’s the first of three about “Mr. Mycroft,” an elderly, brilliant retiree turned beekeeper living …