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In Green Lantern #49, John Broome and Gil Kane shook up the series by having Hal Jordan lose Carol Ferris forever, quit his job and split from Coast City. From …
Tag: DC Comics
Maniaks, Maniaks at your door!
I would like to follow my title by saying “and you’re laughing like you’ve never laughed before!” but having read the Maniaks’ three Showcase tryout issues, I wasn’t. I doubt …
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to untangle the continuity of Plastic Man
(Title is a paraphrased quote from DC’s Plastic Man #6). Courtesy of the DC app I recently read the first issue of DC’s Silver Age Plastic Man (November, 1966) for …
A few more reboots
Last month I posted about some of DC’s reboots from 1966. Continuing onward in my Silver Age reread, I stumbled across a few more from late that year and early …
Two movies, three things that bug me
Shazam: Fury of the Gods (2023) is way better than the first Captain Marvel (he’ll never be Shazam in my head canon!) movie. If nothing else, Lucy Liu and Helen …
Reboots will occur this night
Reboots have been around almost as long as comics. In the Golden Age, for instance, we had Doctor Fate turning from a mysterious helmeted sorcerer into a wise-cracking, two-fisted crimebuster. …
You’re a wonder, Wonder Woman
One of the great things about the DC/Marvel Omnibus books is that I appreciate the art better than I ever did in the comics themselves. For example, this Andru/Esposito sequence …