Thoughts on a Geek Turning 49
At 49, I’m now officially older than most of my childhood heroes. That can’t help but be a little depressing. But am I handling it any better than they are?
Category: Superheroes
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 …
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 …
“Kryptonians can’t have babies with Terrans” is a silly hill to die on
So during a discussion about the new Superman and Lois elsewhere online, someone declared they couldn’t take the show seriously when it has a Kryptonian man impregnating a human woman (the …
With Apologies to Blue Oyster Cult, Don’t Fear (The Creeper)
Steve Ditko’s Beware the Creeper was nowhere near as good a series as his Shade, the Changing Man, but it’s been far more successful. It only lasted six issues, but …
So maybe they should have kept his secret origin secret? Comet the Super-Horse
Some origins are just so right, they’re classic. Superman, last survivor of a doomed planet, fighting to defend his adopted homeworld. Batman, avenging the murder of his parents by waging …
Deus Ex Brother Eye: Omac, the One Man Army
Reading Jack Kirby in the Bronze Age made me wonder what his fans were smoking. Why did everyone keep talking about the guy who wrote Devil Dinosaur and The Demon as …