Indexing, there are few things I hate more than
I spent the past week indexing my upcoming book, Watching Jekyll and Hyde. It is not something I do for fun. Indexing is an important part of writing a nonfiction book. I’ve …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Booya! Holy shit! Nom du nom! Great Krypton!
When I got up the morning after election day in 2016, my stomach knotted in dread. There was no upside to the Necrotic Toddler (as a friend of mine calls …
Gary Friedrich goes out of his way to flunk the Bechdel test
As I’ve blogged about before, by the end of the 1960s Stan Lee had no idea what to do with Captain America. How do you make the quintessential representative of …
And THIS is how DC expects to win the Bronze Age?
I mean, we’re talking the end of 1971 — it’s pretty obvious that just as love comics are doomed, the Western comic is on its way out. Sure, Marvel has …
Cool alternative character or cool alternative timeline?
As a die-hard Doctor Who fan I suffered through the recent, dismal Disney + series that wasted the charm of Ncuti Gatwa as the first Doctor of color. I also read …
Would you like some cheese with that Wein?
My Silver Age reread is now moving into 1972, and Len Wein has already established himself as a writer. There’s his (IMHO) definitive Phantom Stranger (with Jim Aparo on the …
Would you like a monster of your very own?
If so, the comics ads of 1971 have you covered! Kirk Demarais’ ever-informative Mail-Order Mysteries says if you joined up with the Monster Fan Club the rewards were not as cool …