This year marks the 50th anniversary of Volume 2 of “The Steranko History of Comics,” a work that it’s fair to say blew my mind as a kid. I call…
Returning to our retrospective on the kookiest superheroes of all time, I give you the short but spectacular career of Hip Knox, raised from birth to be a master of…
Christmas is, incredibly, just days away and in an effort to get in the proper mood, I’ve returned to the Wishbook Web site to page through the old catalogs that…
Since the last post here, we’ve had a few things going on. We spent an unconventional Thanksgiving in a hotel in Charlotte, NC so Jason could compete in the US…
When it comes to vigilante justice, why should millionaire playboys, off-duty cops and crackpot scientists have all the fun? In HIT Comics #1, beekeeper Richard Raleigh gets into the act…
Things have been kind of slow around here, so I thought I’d start a series of posts on some of the weirder superhero comics I’ve come across. In recent years,…
Recently, Laura and the kids decided we needed a(n until then unannounced) “movie night,” but no one had any idea what to watch. I suggested a Bond film, which normally…
Not sure I have much to add on the subject of William Shatner venturing into space for real, but I figured I couldn’t let it go entirely unmentioned. I don’t…
Sometimes I wonder why blogs aren’t so much of a thing anymore, and then I remember how often I update this one, which is almost never. I guess it’s just…
On June 1, Jason officially graduated high school. This is the part where as Dad I say, “where did the time go?” but I know for him it probably feels…
