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 …
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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 …
Superheroes in decline: Earth-Two comic books during and after WW II
(Reprinting the second of my posts about the comic-book industry as it exists in comics). As you can see above, Earth-Two’s Golden Age of comics probably looked a lot like …
Purge or Hide? Or … will we do both?
(another rewritten post from my own blog). My book on Jekyll and Hyde adaptations is now with the publisher. It has a title, Watching Jekyll and Hyde, with a …