We didn’t see it coming: fiction and pandemic
Living through 2020 makes me appreciate that novelists and screenwriters aren’t clairvoyant. While we’ve had plagues in history, and several accounts of what they were like — hell, most of …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Three early Silver Age covers, three related mini-posts
First cover, by Curt Swan, for Superman #146. It’s a full-length retelling of Superman’s origin from1961, but it feels about 20 years ahead of its time. “The Story of Superman’s Life” …
A chaotic evil series? Well, the characters were evil and the writing was chaotic …
(Another rewrite of an old post from my own blog, this one from 2011) Bronze Age books suffered a lot from shifting creative teams. For every book like Flash, where Cary …
Wasted women of the Silver Age
No, not women who got wasted, women the writers wasted. Two women who deserved better. First we have Lesla-Lar, the Kandorian scientific genius who debuted in Action Comics #279 as “Supergirl’s …
Satan is in that magazine! Or, I have a new short story out
Okay, actually it’s an old story. I wrote Dark Satanic Mills more than a decade ago, sold it to Tales of the Talisman and reprinted it a couple of years ago in my …
Go Lem or Go Home: Marvel’s “Thing That Walks Like a Man”
I love mythology almost as much as I love comic books. Perhaps that’s not surprising as I encountered them both at a young impressionable age. Justice League of America #30 …
Twentieth Century Geopolitics and East-West Relations in the Shadow of Dr. Fu Manchu
Rereading Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series the past year or so (this is a rewritten 2011 post from my own blog) has been a fascinating experience. Not always the reading. …