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 …
Category: Fraser Sherman
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 …
The Sandman that time forgot
(As I don’t have the clear head to do any writing on my aliens book right now, here’s another repost from my own blog). Everyone nerdy enough to read our …
No, comics did not suddenly decline in quality as I got older
(Another post rewritten from four years ago on my blog) When I read some recent, particularly crappy comic from the Big Two it’s easy to grumble about how Kids These …
Lin Carter and the Ballantines Changed My Life
Or at least changed my taste on books (this is another repost from my own blog, from 2013) Someone once described the late specfic author Lin Carter as fantasy methadone. …
From Project UFO to Project Blue Book (or) What the X-Files Hath Wrought
The difference between the 1979’s TV series Project UFO and 2019’s Project Blue Book says a lot about the way TV changed in the decades between. They’re both based on …
Remember the time Iron Man met the Angel? I wish I could forget
Despite coming from Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Tales of Suspense #49 is a mess. Like a lot of the early Marvel I’ve been rereading, it makes me feel the …