The secrets of Marvel Comics revealed — or so I thought
It was soooo damn cool 50 years ago when my brother received Origins of Marvel Comics for a Christmas present. How could it not be cool? Even though I was a …
Category: Fraser Sherman
After the Crisis: Comic Books on New Earth after COIE
Crisis on Infinite Earths not only upended DC’s continuity, it upended the Earth-One and Earth-Two comic-book industries. In the aftermath of the multiverse merging, comics changed radically and ended up …
Challenge the unknown and ask the question
Which question? Well, that depends on your choice of unknown. As we all know, comic books are full of loose ends. Plots that never got resolved because the creative team …
Cheaters never prosper? Actually some do, but it’s still a bad thing to cheat.
(A repost from my own blog, just because) Recently college dropout Advait Paliwal claims he’s co-created an AI, Einstein, that will help college students cheat. Not that he phrases it …
Victor von Doom’s astonishing adventures!
I think we can all agree that Dr. Doom is a superior character to DC’s Eclipso. That did not, however, make him a more successful character. Eclipso debuted in House of …
Earth-One Comics Are Just Like Ours … Only Different
Roy Thomas transformed Earth-One’s comic books without even trying. Or probably even thinking about it. Up until Thomas wrote All-Star Squadron, it was canon that Earth-One in the 1940s had …
This sweet love story can only end in blood!
I’m not sure what put this topic into my head but as it’s there … does anyone remember the 1986 movie Something Wild? Jeff Daniels plays Charlie, a married salaryman …