“She could never love me!” Comics and disability cliches
For me, the best kind of film reference book is one that makes me see movies with fresh eyes. Even movies that weren’t covered in the book. For example, Heather …
Tag: DC Comics
An unusual role for a woman: Karel Sorensen
Revisiting the old Star Rovers stories as part of my Silver Age reread, I suddenly realized how unusual a character Karel Sorensen was. The Star Rovers debuted as a backup …
I did not care, at all, how this strange state of affairs had come to pass
Reading BLACK WIDOW: The Ties That Bind by Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande earlier this year made me realize the way I read comics has changed. I picked up the …
Cover date: July, 1964
Now that Alien Visitors is in the tank, I can resume my Silver Age rereading. This week I picked up where I left off, with comics cover-dated July 1964. This …
Fate Is the Doctor
Reading the Golden Age Doctor Fate Archive a few years ago (this is another of my re-edited posts from my own blog) made me appreciate, again, how futile it is …
The Sandman that time forgot
(As I don’t have the clear head to do any writing on my aliens book right now, here’s another repost from my own blog). Everyone nerdy enough to read our …
No, comics did not suddenly decline in quality as I got older
(Another post rewritten from four years ago on my blog) When I read some recent, particularly crappy comic from the Big Two it’s easy to grumble about how Kids These …