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. …
Category: Fraser Sherman
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 …
Asgardian love, exciting and new
The love affair between Thor and Jane Foster was a staple of Thor’s strip from the beginning. In Thor #136, it came to an end. It wasn’t a well-written relationship …
More pages from late 1966
As I’ve mentioned before, Batman #189 brought back the Scarecrow after twenty-three years of obscurity. He would become a regular foe of the Dark Knight from that point on. The …
Reaction shots
At the climax of Starman (1984), Jeff Bridges assumes his true alien form and ascends to his shining starship overhead. We don’t see this happen, we simply see it on …
DC does comics the Marvel way … maybe
Fathoming the why of creative decisions is tricky, particularly in the comic-book industry. We have the writer, the editor, the artist, higher-ups at the company; sometimes they’re on the same …
A few comic-book scenes and the stories attached to them.
The first is from Strange Tales #151, a coda to my fascination with the Secret Empire arc. In the previous issue, socialite and new Supreme Hydra Don Caballero (which even …