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 …
Category: Fraser Sherman
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 …
The Silver Age: Cute, goofy and … lethal?
One of the more annoying cliches about the Silver Age is that it was too utterly silly and lighthearted for the modern, sophisticated adults of today to take seriously, without …
1965: The year the Justice Society failed
By 1965, the Justice Society had become semi-regular guest stars in DC’s Earth-One series. Three popular crossovers between Jay Garrick and Barry Allen. Two highly acclaimed JLA/JSA team-ups. So it’s …
His Story Is … Unwritten
Back in 2019 (this is another repost from my own blog), I finished rereading the 2009-13 Vertigo series Unwritten, created by Mike Carey and Peter Gross. It held up well. …
Discarding characters to die in the gutter
One of the things that annoys me about 21st century comics is that along with the impulse to get back to the Silver (or at least the Bronze) Age versions …