She was in my mind for years before I finally wrote her story
I must have been in the United States little over a year when I picked up my first Doc Savage novel, Devil On The Moon. It may have been pure …
Category: Fraser Sherman
V — not just for victory!
Now that my The Aliens Are Here is finally out, I thought I’d mark the occasion by reposting a piece from my own blog about 1983’s V and what a …
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 …
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 …