Is he superhero or monster — or is he both?
When I started my Silver Age reread, I didn’t pay much attention to Marvel because I didn’t have any Marvel stuff from the 1950s. As you can see here, most …
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The bush league Justice League: Gerry Conway’s Detroit JLA
I often think that when comic book writers talk about the need to shake up a series they’ve been working on for years, it’s time for them to move on. …
They forgot they were dealing with Rambo! First Blood, Part II (1985)
(Another rewritten repost from my own blog) To paraphrase my friend Ross Bagby, some books and movies are ground-breakers, going where nobody’s gone before. Other fictional works don’t break fresh …
He’s undead, Jim, but not as we know it: Morbius, the Living Vampire
As a teen I was never much interested in buying Marvel’s Bronze Age horror comics, with the exception of Son of Satan. I don’t regret that choice — I only …
Sea Devils, rebooted! Do you care deeply?
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, the comics landscape changed a lot between the start of the Silver Age and 1965. It’s no surprising some characters had to …
Once was enough
Rereading old comics, I’m often surprised how frequently writers would create great villains, then stop using them. Not always, of course. The Joker has seen lots of use in every …
The Siancong War: Worse Than I Thought
Thanks to my local library I read History of the Marvel Universe by Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez yesterday, hoping to clarify some of my questions about the Siancong War. …