“A fact so dread,” he faintly said, “extinguishes all hope.”
(Title courtesy of Lewis Carroll. This is a repost from my blog last week). Netflix just announced that at the end of September, it will cease its DVD service. I’m …
Category: Fraser Sherman
It’s embarrassing that I missed this
I’ve been rereading my old X-Men — that is, the Len Wein/Dave Cockrum-created New X-Men — for a while now and recently reached X-Men #183. I remembered disliking it and …
Even in defeat, the Secret Empire remains an enigma
Last month I blogged about the introduction of Marvel’s Secret Empire and pondered why Stan Lee introduced them when AIM was already around. Other than wearing red instead of AIM’s …
JFK, Blown Away
Blogging about conspiracy theories Monday brought to mind one chapter of my Screen Enemies of the American Way, discussing the way movies and TV have handled John F. Kennedy’s assassination, …
Paranoia, paranoia everybody’s coming to get me
Working on my book about paranoia in film, I inevitably wound up reading a lot about it in real life. Not clinical paranoia but political paranoia. As the historian Richard …
In the summer of 1966, titans fell (and other stuff happened)
Okay, “titans fell” is a clickbait exaggeration. House of Secrets was never a Silver Age titan and Mystery In Space dropped in quality after Jack Schiff took it over from …
Now that I think about it, this is quite remarkable
Last week I read the Tom King/Greg Smallwood Human Target Vol. 1. I don’t like King’s work much — I wouldn’t have touched this if it wasn’t at my local library …