Superman’s weakness is Brussells sprouts? Yeah, I hate them too!
By early 1970 my family had moved from Stanmore, England, to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. I was settling in, sort of — it was quite an adjustment — but I …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Schemers! Red Raven! Dark Shadows! Hero (of course) fighting hero! Marvel, cover-dated June 1970
We’re working on getting our image-posting powers back. For now, all the covers of the books I’m talking about are visible here. And no, there’s no particular reason for picking …
Shatter the battery, unleash the Age of Bronze!
If you’re a comics nerd with any exposure to books of the early 1970s, you’ve undoubtedly seen this cover. The story inside, Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ “No Evil Shall …
Seduced by old trade paperbacks
(So given our ongoing tech problems it occurred to me I could work around them by reposting some of my earliest columns, as I have all the illustrations I need. …
Bond in the age of AIDS? Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights
A couple of years back I began looking at the first film of the various James Bond actors, then stopped after Live and Let Die. As our current can’t-load-images problem …
Stick to the status quo … or don’t
Sticking to the status quo is an understandable impulse, especially in any sort of series. If you’ve got a formula that works, why change it? Especially if you have …
Anachronism
(Another repost from my own blog) One of the many classic moments in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is when King Arthur confronts a peasant who insists that his …