A football coach and Lex Luthor (no, they don’t walk into a bar)
As I discussed Monday, multi-part stories make it easy for the creators to change course mid-stream. This isn’t always a bad thing: I think Stan Lee’s change to Warlock’s origin …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Looks matter
As I’ve mentioned before, throwing characters away under the assumption they’ll never amount to anything is often a mistake. Sometimes it takes a new writer or a new angle to …
Honor is much overrated
(Another repost from my own blog because I can’t seem to find time for anything more). Some years back, I read a quote from Lois McMaster Bujold that said “Guard …
What if the South had won? Captain Confederacy.
In in light of the recent [when I wrote this on my own blog five years ago] furor over HBO’s Confederates (life in an America where the Confederacy won its independence), …
Let them go down to the dust from which they sprung
(Title courtesy of Sir Walter Scott writing that the man with no love for his native land shall “go down to the vile dust from whence he sprung, unwept, unhonour’d …
Flintstones: Meet the even-more-modern Stone Age family
Reading the first volume of DC’s short-lived Flintstones by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh got me thinking about how you keep an adaptation faithful (or don’t) when it comes out 46 …
OSHA has an important safety tip for you!
Dramatized on this cover by Jack Sparling for a DC public service announcement!Depressingly, surveys indicate that 100 percent of DC cover-story characters never listen to these safety guidelines. #SFWApro.