DC’s sensational character finds of 1965!
(Or more precisely the end of 1964 through the beginning of 1966, going, as usual, by cover dates). One of the joys of my Silver Age reread is when I …
‘Colliding Atoms’
So we’re sitting in Rimsky’s, waiting for the rest of our friends to show up, and Randolph is telling us about his band. God, I hate his band. “When we …
The blackest Bond: Live and Let Die
1973’s Live and Let Die is a reminder that the course of any serialized entertainment — comics, TV, film series — is often dictated by outside events and backstage struggles …
The Ripper and the Baronet: my novel Questionable Minds is out
Some decades back, I wrote a novel. Okay, I’ve actually written several unpublished novels. Questionable Minds was my fifth. By that point I’d gained enough experience that when I looked …
The collected Dr. Fixit is here!
Greg Hatcher’s new pulp character Dr. Fixit headlines his own book!
Behold the birth of Bond! Dr. No (1962)
The first film in a series often isn’t typical. As with comics, the elements that come to define a series often aren’t there at the first, and that’s somewhat true …
‘The Exploration of a Foreign Place’
Eyelids flutter and flicker. Pain spreads from back to front and back again — waves licking a distant shore. Eyes. Dance. Luminous blobs. She. Reaches. Out. Pain slams into her, …