An unusual role for a woman: Karel Sorensen
Revisiting the old Star Rovers stories as part of my Silver Age reread, I suddenly realized how unusual a character Karel Sorensen was. The Star Rovers debuted as a backup …
Category: Fraser Sherman
I did not care, at all, how this strange state of affairs had come to pass
Reading BLACK WIDOW: The Ties That Bind by Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande earlier this year made me realize the way I read comics has changed. I picked up the …
Our place in the universe
In the course of writing Alien Visitors I spent a lot of time with Keep Watching the Skies, Bill Warren’s landmark book on 1950s SF movies. One observation Warren makes is …
Cover date: July, 1964
Now that Alien Visitors is in the tank, I can resume my Silver Age rereading. This week I picked up where I left off, with comics cover-dated July 1964. This …
Woman, manhood and extraterrestrials
(In addition to posting new stuff again, I’m going to cross-post some of what I wrote on my own blog about the movies I’ve watched for Alien Visitors, just to …
Three things to vent about
Not the post I’d planned to write, but three different things in three different media irked me this week, so — 1)The TPB of Punk Mambo by Cullen Bunn and …
The game is done, I’ve won, I’ve won!
Which is to say that as of 3 AM Monday morning, my book Alien Visitors is finished. I still have to submit the manuscript (McFarland has to set something up …