At Christmas I felt … the sting of death!
Back in the 1980s I read a mystery, A Taste for Honey by HF Heard. It’s the first of three about “Mr. Mycroft,” an elderly, brilliant retiree turned beekeeper living …
Yes, the DCU should be like this
1964 marked the year Julius Schwartz gave up editorship at Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space in favor of Batman and Detective Comics (a topic I want to revisit in a …
Flippin’ Through ‘Previews’ — December 2021
There’s still time to flip through Previews, so let’s go!
“She could never love me!” Comics and disability cliches
For me, the best kind of film reference book is one that makes me see movies with fresh eyes. Even movies that weren’t covered in the book. For example, Heather …
America’s After Party
Recently I read two outstanding and thoroughly thought-provoking works of dystopian science fiction that I think everyone should read.
An unusual role for a woman: Karel Sorensen
Revisiting the old Star Rovers stories as part of my Silver Age reread, I suddenly realized how unusual a character Karel Sorensen was. The Star Rovers debuted as a backup …
I did not care, at all, how this strange state of affairs had come to pass
Reading BLACK WIDOW: The Ties That Bind by Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande earlier this year made me realize the way I read comics has changed. I picked up the …