Mars needs … Christians? Red Planet Mars
Back in the 1980s, conservatives began holding up the 1950s as a utopia. A peaceful, united nation full of happy nuclear families resembling 1950s sitcoms (mom at home, dad at …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Kids These Days
I’m guessing most of y’all have seen one of those Beloit College lists that go around every year, reminding teachers of what Kids These Days are like. If you were …
Exactly how I’d expect Batman to act, yet it didn’t work: Tower of Babel
A few years back, I began rereading my Justice League of America books. As I don’t binge, I’m currently midway through Joe Kelly’s run (I have a lot of JLA …
Some characters are not worth the paper they’re drawn on
One of the problems with a medium that requires as many stories every month as comic books is that some uninteresting villains appear much more than they deserve, just to …
A little thing that drives me nuts
So I just finished Jane Yolen and Adam Semple’s The Last Tsar’s Dragons. It’s a story of events leading up to the Russian Revolution, seen through the eyes of Tsar …
Genres and subgenres we hate
As this weekend proved less congenial to blogging than I’d expected (dog-sitting for a friend’s pups), here’s a question of the week instead: is there a genre or sub-genre of …
The Aliens Are Here Is Here!
In other words, the author’s copies of my book, The Aliens Are Here, just showed up at my house.Yeah, somehow I didn’t capture my name under the illustration (from 2008’s …