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 …
Category: Fraser Sherman
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 …
If WW II were this easy, we’d have won it in 1942
When I signed up for the Marvel app to help with my Silver Age rereading, I discovered it included Sgt. Fury. Even though I wasn’t a fan, I added it …
Dying is easy. Indexing is hard.
So early last month my publisher, McFarland, sent me the PDF containing the edited manuscript for The Aliens Are Here. My mission: check it for any errors that slipped through, …