Category: Comics
The Organization of Active Anthropologists Wants You!: The Brain Boy Archives
Some years back, Scott Shaw!’s column on CBG covered a bizarre-sounding story in which a teenage psi spy battles a psionic T. rex for the fate of the world. It …
Parlight, Parbright…
A few years ago, a bunch of Croatian comics artists created a bunch of spoof-like strips as a tribute to their pal, Goran Parlov, called Parlight Starlov – and now it’s lovely, a bona-fide book.
A world without superheroes: The birth of the Silver Age
Intellectually, I’ve known for years that between the Golden Age ending and the debut of Barry Allen in Showcase #4, superheroes were mostly dead in the water. My recent rereading …
Has political correctness run amok in comics?!?!?
I love a good controversial title for a post, don’t you?
After the Crisis: Comic Books on DC’s Post-Crisis Earth
Crisis on Infinite Earths not only upended DC’s continuity, it upended the Earth-One and Earth Two comic-book industries. In the aftermath of the multiverse merging, comics changed radically and ended …