Making your hero a sexist is not brilliant characterization
I wasn’t at all a fan of the New 52 Wonder Woman, but the book’s handling of Orion brought it to rock bottom When Orion shows up to join forces …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Shall we look at some interesting cover art? Yes, we shall
As my paying gigs (or hopefully paying in the case of fiction) are taking up a lot of energy, this is the best I can manage. But it’s eye candy, …
Once they were ordinary women but now …
In the Silver Age, the vast majority of super-hero love interests were ordinary humans. Since then, as someone recently pointed out to me, a surprising number have become superheroes or …
The spy on whom the sun never sets: James Bond and England
When Ian Fleming published the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953, Britain was widely seen as a nation in a decline. During the war years, the UK had been …
The Bond Girl Changes: The Spy Who Loved Me
So as the combination of two puking dogs this weekend and (more pleasantly) multiple social events over the past nine days has thrown off my schedule. So it’s a recycled …
Thunderball, your fiery breath would burn the coldest man!
It’s my birthday today and as I mentioned on my own blog, I’m feeling good. While I wouldn’t say the future is so bright I have to wear shades, the …
Captain America — Young Punk?
One of the things Silver Age Marvel (nor most later Marvel that I can recall) rarely touches on is how fricking young Captain America was in the Golden and Silver …