Category: Comics
A question for the ages, or at least for the week after Christmas
To wit, how do I spend all the Christmas gift certificates I got? More precisely, do I spend them on stuff I was planning to get anyway, or wait on …
Now that’s realism!
As I’ve said before, the Silver Age origin of the Teen Titans is sheer elegance in its simplicity: they realized teenagers sometimes needed superheroes in their corner so they formed …
Tomboy: say her name and the underworld trembles!
To most people, Janie Jackson is an unremarkable tween girl. “A perfect little lady,” sweet but shy, maybe a little on the timid side. To readers of Captain Flash in …
Review time! with ‘Fantastic Four: Full Circle’
It’s four people who are fantastic! What will they do with that?
My favorite Christmas cover
Nick Cardy’s cover for Teen Titans #13, “A Swingin’ Christmas Carol,” just works for me. Maybe it’s the oddity of having the Titans trapped in a Christmas-tree shaped pile of …
The changing of the guard
One of the dismaying truths about comics is that nothing is forever, particularly creative teams. Sometimes this works out great, as when Steve Englehart replaced Roy Thomas writing Avengers or …