Gary Friedrich goes out of his way to flunk the Bechdel test
As I’ve blogged about before, by the end of the 1960s Stan Lee had no idea what to do with Captain America. How do you make the quintessential representative of …
Tag: Marvel Comics
Cool alternative character or cool alternative timeline?
As a die-hard Doctor Who fan I suffered through the recent, dismal Disney + series that wasted the charm of Ncuti Gatwa as the first Doctor of color. I also read …
Would you like some cheese with that Wein?
My Silver Age reread is now moving into 1972, and Len Wein has already established himself as a writer. There’s his (IMHO) definitive Phantom Stranger (with Jim Aparo on the …
It’s a crazy thought, but maybe some super-villains deserve oblivion
A couple of months ago, I cited Flash #209 and Batman #234 as the beginning of what would become a Bronze Age trend — writers using supervillains again rather than “realistic” or …
Continuity: it matters behind the scenes too
There’s no question a lot of the Bronze Age was solid gold. Steve Englehart’s Avengers. Tomb of Dracula. Starlin’s Warlock and Captain Marvel. Plus less spectacular but solidly entertaining books such as Cary Bates …
May your doom be nice
As y’all must know, Damage Control was a series by Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colon dealing with the company that cleans up after superhero battles, alien invasions, giant robot clashes, etc. …
You got horror comics in my love comics! And my war comics! And my superhero books!
As I blogged about last year, the Bronze Age horror-comics revival began in 1968 when DC rebooted House of Mystery into its definitive form, with Cain as caretaker, landlord to ill-fated …