A retrospective on the career of President Prez Rickard: Prez, #1-4
Joe Simon created many loopy characters and ideas in the Bronze Age, but none more memorable than Prez. Most of them â The Outsiders, The Green Team â aren’t memorable …
Category: Comics
DC’s Second Golden Age
When comics fans talk about “DC Rebirth,” they mean the branding from a couple of years back. But whenever I hear the expression, I always think of a different time from decades ago.
The New Mutants: A Slow Review
The New Mutants is finally out in selected cinemas nowhere near you. I saw it.
Beowulf met Dracula? That would have made English class much cooler!
Edit Post When Marvel launched Conan the Barbarian in 1970, it was a game-changer. Roy Thomas had seen fan letters asking for a Conan book and he knew there was …
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It’s Not About What It’s About: Dissecting Some Cult Classics
Buckaroo Banzai is really more fantasy than SF. Where Star Wars is the classic Quest fantasy, Buckaroo Banzai follows a different story; there is a hidden world we donât know about, and in that world, forces of good and evil are waging a war with our world hanging in the balance. Our hero, a surprisingly resourceful person, has the ability to enter that world and fight for us, along with a team of allies, each of whom is an expert in a different area with skills that the team needs. By recasting this trope in the form of urban legends and conspiracy theories, Buckaroo Banzai responds to anxieties about things out of our control and assures us that we have a champion in the hidden battle. Itâs religion for a post-supernatural world.