A football coach and Lex Luthor (no, they don’t walk into a bar)
As I discussed Monday, multi-part stories make it easy for the creators to change course mid-stream. This isn’t always a bad thing: I think Stan Lee’s change to Warlock’s origin …
Tag: Marvel Comics
Let them go down to the dust from which they sprung
(Title courtesy of Sir Walter Scott writing that the man with no love for his native land shall “go down to the vile dust from whence he sprung, unwept, unhonour’d …
The Widow gets dangerous: Sting of the Widow
Reading Black Widow: Sting of the Widow alongside my Silver Age reread made me much more aware what a game-changer the early 1970s was for Natasha. Though the collection includes …
New faces of the Silver Age (not that I ever saw their faces back then).
In 1965 and 1966, change was in the air. New names were writing the comics I liked, as well as the books I didn’t care about. The new generation of …
Even Lois Lane would find this cringeworthy
As I said on Monday, Marvel upped its game amazingly between Fantastic Four #1 and the end of 1965. Stan Lee and his collaborators had become masters of continual narrative …
Kids These Days
I’m guessing most of y’all have seen one of those Beloit College lists that go around every year, reminding teachers of what Kids These Days are like. If you were …
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 …