Products of a zeitgeist not my own
When people call something “a product of its time,” it’s usually not a compliment. Typically it means the book, film, comic book or whatever has attitudes about women, gays or …
Category: Comics
Not everything fictional characters do is justifiable
(This is a post from more than a decade ago on my own blog. Much like using Greg Hatcher’s old posts, it gives y’all more to read here) I’m not …
Plugging a gap with a zap!
As I mentioned a few months back, when Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes swapped books, it cut the LSH out of my Silver Age reread. Following Action Comics #376, the Legion …
Now I want to see Oscar the Grouch as one of Batman’s eyes on the street
The November (cover dated) comics where I saw ABC’s Saturday morning schedule advertised also had ads for another kids’ show on another network. Though I couldn’t have known it at …
Roy Thomas speaks! Mar-Vell listens!
Over at Roy Thomas’s website he has several pages listing his comic book co-creations. As I’ve been blogging so much about Captain Mar-Vell, this section I stumbled across seemed interesting: …