Quarantined in Gotham City
With the stay-at-home order still in force here, I’m getting caught up on my comics reading. Bat books, mostly. Here’s the second half of the rundown I started last week.
‘Hollywood’ Clumsily Rewrites History
Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee and American Horror Story, has a new seven-episode series up on Netflix, so I gave it a look. Hollywood (co-created with Ian Brennan) turned out to be one of the more frustrating productions I’ve seen in a while. I found it so annoying, in fact, that I’m going to complain about it in detail. [Spoilers] abound.
Steve Englehart, the Lazarus Man
As a teenager in the Bronze Age, Steve Englehart was one of my favorite writers. Looking back, I still love his stories, but I’m almost as impressed by the number …
“Real Things,” Part 2: WTF Is WRONG With You, Kimberly?!
My column about working during the pandemic lockdown touched a nerve with a lot of people who are also being held hostage on the front lines to a shitty system. Here are their stories.