This used to be so damn cool
Groundbreaking stories or concepts often have a short shelf life. Frequently they’re upstaged by someone who does the same thing better. Sherlock Holmes wasn’t the first private detective nor Tarzan …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Still fast, still furious: Fast and Furious 6-8
Following up on Monday’s post about the Fast and Furious films, I resume here with Furious 6 (2013). After pulling off the heist of Fast Five, the team has settled comfortably …
Fast, Furious, Successful: The Fast and Furious Franchise (part one)
I’m not a car guy — if I acquired super-speed I’d be happy never to drive a car again — but last year I decided to work through the Fast and …
Mutants and missiles, selfish heroes and a crisis: more stories from 1963
In one of my previous Silver Age posts, I pointed out that in July, 1962, Stan Lee used a Circus of Crime in two different books. A year later, I …
An absent-minded professor, a doctor and a light-bulb: stories from 1963
Yep, it’s another of my posts looking at random stories from my Silver Age rereading that seemed worth of comment. There’s several more from 1963 I want to talk about, …
Wow. Freedom is exhausting
I became fully vaccinated roughly two weeks ago. It’s been surprisingly overwhelming. Good, but overwhelming. The first few days of freedom, I got my haircut (I no longer feel the …
Once again, pandemic reality trumps fiction
So last week, TYG and I reached the full immunity (or as full as it gets) two-week point after our second vaccinations. I followed this up by getting a haircut, …