The covers that got away
I love looking at comic book covers from the Silver Age. They were made for the days when comics sat on the spinner rack for a few days, then poof, …
Category: Fraser Sherman
Steve Englehart, the Lazarus Man
As a teenager in the Bronze Age, Steve Englehart was one of my favorite writers. Looking back, I still love his stories, but I’m almost as impressed by the number …
Not as deep as it thinks: Alex Garland’s Devs (with spoilers)
I doubt I’d bother to devote a whole post here to a series I didn’t care for if Devs wasn’t so convinced of its own depth. In the teaser for …
Well it’s not as bad as I thought: Watching Justice League three years late
A decade ago, I wouldn’t have imagined a time when I’d pass up seeing a big budget, big screen Justice League movie in the theater. I love the JLA, even …
There are eight million stories in the Batman’s city. These are some of them.
Collecting the Golden Age Batman Omnibus volumes has been a joy in itself. Seriously; I now have every story for the first decade of Batman’s existence and then some. That’s …
The Mystery of Teen Titans #32
No, not a mystery in the story or about the story. The mystery is why the hell I bought it. Not that I hated the Titans or anything, but — …
My strange fascination with DC’s Tomahawk
Tom Hawk — Revolutionary War scout, “Indian fighter” and “America’s favorite frontier hero” intrigues the hell out of me. Not that I have a burning urge to buy up some …