We didn’t see it coming: fiction and pandemic
Living through 2020 makes me appreciate that novelists and screenwriters aren’t clairvoyant. While we’ve had plagues in history, and several accounts of what they were like — hell, most of …
Floyd The Slayer
A single shot from Buffy and a Pink Floyd album cover are they meant to be the same or not?
Three early Silver Age covers, three related mini-posts
First cover, by Curt Swan, for Superman #146. It’s a full-length retelling of Superman’s origin from1961, but it feels about 20 years ahead of its time. “The Story of Superman’s Life” …
Grail Quests Redux
In which your humble correspondent knocks a few items off the short list, and reminisces about how they got there in the first place.