Big news about a small superhero: The Silver Age Atom
My Silver Age reread has given me fresh appreciation from how well Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Gil Kane rebooted the Golden Age Atom. More precisely, how they made this …
My Silver Age reread has given me fresh appreciation from how well Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Gil Kane rebooted the Golden Age Atom. More precisely, how they made this …
On the text page in 1987s Airboy and Mr. Monster Special, comics writer Gerard Jones quoted baseball player Satchell Paige (“”It’s okay to look back. Just don’t stare.”) to describe …
One bad thing about rereading the Silver Age is that it includes reading stuff that I don’t particularly like.Sgt. Fury, for example, was sometimes billed as the “the war comic …
As I mentioned last week, the New Look Batman era toned down the SF elements that Jack Schiff had pumped into Batman such as alien criminals. Weird changes either to …
In name only adaptations frustrate me, especially when I love the source.
Since I started my Silver Age rereading three years ago I’ve had a lot of fun. Enough that I’ve periodically wondered if I should make it something bigger, rereading the …