Three movies I’ve watched from three mythos
(Originally the title said “watched recently” but it’s been a while). I don’t normally think of Barbie (2023) as a mythos, and don’t have much to say other than TYG …
Category: Fraser Sherman
The Three R’s: Robbins, Robin and Relevance
“One Bullet Too Many” in 1969’s Batman #217 (Frank Robbins, Irv Novick) is the story I think of as the end of the New Look Batman and the beginning of …
Timelessness and relevance
I don’t remember what prompted it but a couple of years back my friend Ross Bagby and I got into a discussion of how a lot of 20th century fiction …
The fox of justice: Three yarns by Gardner F. Fox
Gardner Fox wrote the first comic book I ever read, Justice League of America #30. He is without question, one of my favorite all-time comics writers and in hindsight wrote …
Did you know that sex sells?
And nobody knows that better than paperback cover illustrators, as you’ll see. First, this one by Roger Kastel.Here’s an uncredited cover that implies something really scandalous. My online research hasn’t …
Raising Cain
Rereading the Silver Age has taught me repeatedly that my memory is fallible. Even so, sometimes my errors surprise me.I have a crystal-clear memory what happened after Dial H for …
Watching Turner Classic Movies in Greenville, SC
Early last month I took a trip down to Greenville for a Mensa event thrown by the local group. TYG and I went every year until the pandemic; it’s a …