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 …
Tag: Legion of Super-Heroes
In the summer of 1966, titans fell (and other stuff happened)
Okay, “titans fell” is a clickbait exaggeration. House of Secrets was never a Silver Age titan and Mystery In Space dropped in quality after Jack Schiff took it over from …
One by Dorfman, Two by Hamilton
I meant to review “Superman’s Sacrifice” in Superman #171 some time back — it came out August, 1964 and my Silver Age reread is now two years past that — …
The changing of the guard
One of the dismaying truths about comics is that nothing is forever, particularly creative teams. Sometimes this works out great, as when Steve Englehart replaced Roy Thomas writing Avengers or …
Living the meme: things that keep a geek up at night
Sometimes those memes floating around on social media hit a little too close to home…
What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – November 2019
Where does the time go? Spend some of it reading reviews, why don’t you?
Misconceptions of my youth
The classic argument for why Crisis on Infinite Earths was necessary was that DC’s multiple Earths were just too confusing to new readers, turning them off. As someone who started …