Spoiled for Psycho (a question of the week post)
I’m going to make a wild guess that my fellow bloggers and our readers have, at some point in their lives, seen spoilers they’d rather not have known before they …
Category: Fraser Sherman
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to untangle the continuity of Plastic Man
(Title is a paraphrased quote from DC’s Plastic Man #6). Courtesy of the DC app I recently read the first issue of DC’s Silver Age Plastic Man (November, 1966) for …
A few more reboots
Last month I posted about some of DC’s reboots from 1966. Continuing onward in my Silver Age reread, I stumbled across a few more from late that year and early …
Two TV things I watched last year, plus another thing, none of which worked
(Another old post from my own blog) I hate getting rejection letters that say things like “this just didn’t work for me” because that doesn’t help me understand what went …
Two movies, three things that bug me
Shazam: Fury of the Gods (2023) is way better than the first Captain Marvel (he’ll never be Shazam in my head canon!) movie. If nothing else, Lucy Liu and Helen …
A for Effort, F for Execution: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land
I’m confident everyone reading this blog has seen at least one work of fiction where a great concept was ruined by terrible execution. William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land is …
You know what would make this character truly sing? Make them generic!
The Gladiator wasn’t a good villain when he debuted in Daredevil #18 — Silver Age Daredevil didn’t do good villains — but at least he stood out. As with the …