“Batman? Are you named for that guy in the funny books?” The Earth-One Paradox
As we all know, when Barry Allen first popped over to Earth-Two in Flash #123 he discovered the 1940s Golden Age Flash he’d grown up reading about was a real …
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Mr. Hyde was an innocent monster persecuted by torch-wielding mobs! Well, okay then.
Movies don’t always start with a brilliant idea. AIP, the legendary maker of low-budget drive-in movies, would often come up with a publicity campaign, then make the movie if theater …
What would you witness if you could?
Question of the week, or at least of this Monday: if you could witness anything in American history, what would you want to see? Let’s refine that slightly. Someone has …
And your writers shall see visions: writing superheroes in the DC Multiverse
When Flash #123 established Jay Garrick was as real as Barry Allen it changed the direction of the DC universe. It also established that at least some comic-book writers in …
The only good goblin is a dead goblin
Comics nerds like us have generated endless discussion — spoken, print, online — about the decision to kill Gwen Stacey. Who came up with it? Why? What did her co-creator, …
OMG! Taylor Swift killed the Earl of Moray, and Lady Mondegreen!
As you may know, the title refers to the origin of the term “mondegreen” for a misheard song lyric. The correct lyric, from an old Scots ballad runs “they’ve killed …
If everything is out of continuity, is anything in continuity?
I just finished the six-issue run of Metamorpho, the Element Man by Al Ewing and Steve Lieber (who provides the cover below) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Ewing does a remarkable …