Once they were ordinary women but now …
In the Silver Age, the vast majority of super-hero love interests were ordinary humans. Since then, as someone recently pointed out to me, a surprising number have become superheroes or …
Question of the Week: What’s your favorite album by a ‘short-lived’ band?
The Academy Awards are over, so it’s back to music for this week’s Question!
The spy on whom the sun never sets: James Bond and England
When Ian Fleming published the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953, Britain was widely seen as a nation in a decline. During the war years, the UK had been …
Review: ‘American Comics: A History’: Comprehensive & Fascinating
American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber is perhaps the most accurately named book that I’ve ever read. It covers the history of all genres and eras of comics and …
The Bond Girl Changes: The Spy Who Loved Me
So as the combination of two puking dogs this weekend and (more pleasantly) multiple social events over the past nine days has thrown off my schedule. So it’s a recycled …