Look back, but don’t stare
On the text page in 1987s Airboy and Mr. Monster Special, comics writer Gerard Jones quoted baseball player Satchell Paige (“”It’s okay to look back. Just don’t stare.”) to describe …
Mercy-killing comic books
One bad thing about rereading the Silver Age is that it includes reading stuff that I don’t particularly like.Sgt. Fury, for example, was sometimes billed as the “the war comic …
Cavemen, beast-bombs and an outsider: the weirder side of 1965 in Gotham City
As I mentioned last week, the New Look Batman era toned down the SF elements that Jack Schiff had pumped into Batman such as alien criminals. Weird changes either to …
In the name of the family: a comment on Ms Marvel and page-to-screen
In name only adaptations frustrate me, especially when I love the source.
‘The Ash of History’
There was a prince named Rudolf, symbol of the baroque gaudiness that was Vienna in the nineteenth century, who put a bullet through his brain after killing his seventeen-year-old mistress. …