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. …
Category: Fraser Sherman
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 …
Does this mean Aunt May could beat me up? “Ordinary” people in comic books
A couple of years back I was reading a comics thread online in which someone posed a question: are even ordinary people in the MU and DCU superhuman by real-world …
What is the point of Sherlock Holmes?
When I attended the Mysticon SF con back in 2018, one of the panels I sat on was on Sherlock Holmes, particularly the TV series Sherlock and Elementary. At some …
The effect of being social off-line —
—is that I have less time to blog. TYG’s schedule has freed up which means mine frees up. Plus we’re working on doing more couple stuff, something we got out …
My nerdy interest in golems paid off!
Ever since I first read Marvel’s short-lived Golem series in Strange Tales, golems have fascinated me. I’m not sure what intrigued me about them, though it definitely wasn’t the series’ …
A trickle that became an overwhelming flood: New Mutants
Reading the New Mutants’ debut in their eponymous 1982 graphic novel is really strange forty years later. Not that it’s aged badly. The story of Professor X reluctantly recruiting a …