What if the South had won? Captain Confederacy.
In in light of the recent [when I wrote this on my own blog five years ago] furor over HBOās ConfederatesĀ (life in an America where the Confederacy won its independence), …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Let them go down to the dust from which they sprung
(Title courtesy of Sir Walter Scott writing that the man with no love for his native land shall “go down to the vile dust from whence he sprung, unwept, unhonour’d …
Flintstones: Meet the even-more-modern Stone Age family
Reading the first volume of DCās short-livedĀ Flintstones by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh got me thinking about how you keep an adaptation faithful (or donāt) when it comes out 46 …
OSHA has an important safety tip for you!
Dramatized on this cover by Jack Sparling for a DC public service announcement!Depressingly, surveys indicate that 100 percent of DC cover-story characters never listen to these safety guidelines. #SFWApro.
The Widow gets dangerous: Sting of the Widow
Reading Black Widow: Sting of the Widow alongside my Silver Age reread made me much more aware what a game-changer the early 1970s was for Natasha. Though the collection includes …
What, if anything, is a Lovecraftian story?
My short story The Happiest Place on Earth is now available for purchase in the LOLcraft anthology of Lovecraftian humor.Ā Which is, of course, a contradiction in terms. Just as …
New faces of the Silver Age (not that I ever saw their faces back then).
In 1965 and 1966, change was in the air. New names were writing the comics I liked, as well as the books I didn’t care about. The new generation of …