“Are you Guardians simply improvising?” The DC Challenge
DC Challenge is the kind of series where creating an alternate timeline where the Nazis won WW II was meant to simplify the plot. DC launched this 1985-6 twelve-issue limited …
Which Episodes of STAR TREK Are In Continuity?
It’s an interesting question: What episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series are explicitly in continuity because they were referenced in the Trek movies? Could you state that, say, “A Taste Of Armageddon” definitely happened to our heroes because it was referenced in one of the films? Could you find references to the entire television series if you looked hard enough?
It seemed like an interesting challenge. And since I was going through a bout of insomnia when I first read the question, I decided to find out.
Hard Cases and Other Mysterious Volumes
I’ve been getting a lot of nifty mysteries and related items in here lately. Here’s a quick rundown.
The Unsung – Edward Whittemore’s ‘Jerusalem Quartet’
The Unsung examines works of popular culture that are critically acclaimed but not popular, popular but not critically acclaimed, or neither. Today I’m writing about Edward Whittemore’s four novels about the Middle East, so let’s go!
Doc Savage vs. the Depression
Doc Savage didn’t just fight evil. Living in the Depression, he fought suffering.
Flippin’ through ‘Previews’ – January 2018
Hey, we’re a bit late, but there’s still time to discuss what’s going in Previews for January!
Collins’ Comics Whodunits
Among his many, many books, prolific crime writer Max Allan Collins wrote a trilogy of delightful murder mysteries set in the world of newspaper strips and comic books in the late 1940s and early 1950s.