“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: Marvel Comics
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 …
Remember the time Iron Man met the Angel? I wish I could forget
Despite coming from Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Tales of Suspense #49 is a mess. Like a lot of the early Marvel I’ve been rereading, it makes me feel the …
Mutants and missiles, selfish heroes and a crisis: more stories from 1963
In one of my previous Silver Age posts, I pointed out that in July, 1962, Stan Lee used a Circus of Crime in two different books. A year later, I …
And men shall call him — warlock! Adam Warlock before Jim Starlin
Adam Warlock’s first series wasn’t perfect. Coming out in 1972, however, it was perfectly timed. I can’t imagine Marvel trying a religious allegory (“My dream casting is High Evolutionary as …
Whatever gods there be: theology in the DCU and MU
If you don’t think about it much, the Marvel and DC universes look like they have Christianity as their operating system. We’ve seen Heaven, often depicted with pearly gates. It …
Fox, Lee, Kirby: Writing in the Silver Age
Once Marvel began publishing superhero comics in the Silver Age, the differences between the Marvel and DC styles firmed up quickly. Most of the DC stories I remember fondly give …