The loneliest miser
(A Christmas post from 2018 I’m reposting) Last year Greg Hatcher discussed why he loves A Christmas Carol despite a general distaste for Christmas because “someone finally convinces a rich …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Happiness is a warm puppy or two. And cats. And a life partner.
(Cross-posted at my own blog) I have known TYG 16 years. When I met her I was convinced I’d never find love (my history argued against it) and I’d never …
Captains in transition (Col. Fury too)
A perennial problem in comic-book storytelling is that the storytellers keep changing. Sometimes the series whipsaws in unpredictable and unsuccessful directions. Sometimes one writer’s plans get axed by their replacement. …
Roy Thomas reaches beyond comics—maybe Neal Adams does too
By 1969, Roy Thomas has already begun reviving the Golden Age heroes he love so much. However his story inspirations reach well beyond comics, as the books I’m looking at …
The Dead Sea Scrolls never caused this much trouble: the Tablet Saga
The Tablet Saga in Amazing Spider-Man ran much longer than I expected. Otherwise there’d be no point in calling it a saga — though to the best of my knowledge, …
I have become as all-seeing as the mighty Ka-Bala!
Y’all remember Ka-Bala, the mysterious toy with the power to predict the future? While I cannot predict the outcome of baseball games or someone’s love life, years of immersing myself …
Marvel’s also open to flinging stuff at the wall
I’ve blogged several times about how DC in the late 1960s was desperately trying new things to see what would work (most of it didn’t). Bat Lash. Deadman. Hawk and …