Once a certain guy from Krypton made it obvious how much money there was in superhero comics, the race was on to duplicate his success at other publishers. The challenge, though, was how to make a hero “super” without copying…
Fifty years ago this month, I was reading a tabloid-sized comic collection called “Christmas With the Super-Heroes” (aka Limited Collector’s Edition C-34) and in the years since I’ve trotted it out almost as often as I’ve watched Rudolph The Red-Nosed…
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the demise of Captain James T. Kirk in the hugely underwhelming “Star Trek: Generations,” and to mark the occasion, The Roddenberry Archives released a short film revealing, perhaps, the journey Kirk saw ahead of…
It was great while it lasted.
Fifty years ago this month, Superman #284 appeared on newsstands, and young me was happy to get it. In something of a homecoming for the Man of Steel, the story sees Clark Kent reuniting with two cherished childhood friends to…
Well once again this blog has sat dormant for a long stretch, but having just gone through the trouble of picking the whole thing up and moving it to a new web host, I figure I might as well generate…
