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 …
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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 …
Reboots will occur this night
Reboots have been around almost as long as comics. In the Golden Age, for instance, we had Doctor Fate turning from a mysterious helmeted sorcerer into a wise-cracking, two-fisted crimebuster. …
You’re a wonder, Wonder Woman
One of the great things about the DC/Marvel Omnibus books is that I appreciate the art better than I ever did in the comics themselves. For example, this Andru/Esposito sequence …