Discarding characters to die in the gutter
One of the things that annoys me about 21st century comics is that along with the impulse to get back to the Silver (or at least the Bronze) Age versions …
Tag: DC Comics
Does this mean Aunt May could beat me up? “Ordinary” people in comic books
A couple of years back I was reading a comics thread online in which someone posed a question: are even ordinary people in the MU and DCU superhuman by real-world …
Wonder Woman: The messy end of the Diana Prince years
One thing about the “white pantsuit” era of Wonder Woman (though she didn’t wear that outfit half as much as people remember), it didn’t stick to a formula.After setting up …
Daredevil, Thor, the Teen Titans: short notes from the Silver Age
While it’s fun going into detail about particular issues or trends as I reread the Silver Age, 1965 has simply more going on than I can blog in detail about. …
I Ching Is the Book of Changes and Wonder Woman Certainly Changed
The reboot that turned Wonder Woman into Diana Prince, martial artist, crimefighter and adventurer, began with a four issue arc from Wonder Woman #179 through #182. #178 showed Diana Prince …
A hip Amazon who swings? Wonder Woman begins the Diana Prince years
Some years back, I began rereading my run of Wonder Woman, which I do with most of my old comics eventually, and blogging about them, which I don’t usually do. …
They just didn’t get it
Anyone out there remember Strikeforce: Morituri? This 1986 series by Peter Gillis and Brent Eric Anderson is set in a near-future world where the alien Horde have Earth under their …