Satire Is What Closes on a Saturday Night
As part of my research for The Aliens Are Here (which McFarland has settled on as the title for what I’ve been calling Alien Visitors), I rewatched the cheerfully deranged …
Category: Fraser Sherman
At Christmas I felt … the sting of death!
Back in the 1980s I read a mystery, A Taste for Honey by HF Heard. It’s the first of three about “Mr. Mycroft,” an elderly, brilliant retiree turned beekeeper living …
Yes, the DCU should be like this
1964 marked the year Julius Schwartz gave up editorship at Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space in favor of Batman and Detective Comics (a topic I want to revisit in a …
“She could never love me!” Comics and disability cliches
For me, the best kind of film reference book is one that makes me see movies with fresh eyes. Even movies that weren’t covered in the book. For example, Heather …
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 …
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 …