In detective stories, there is a cliché…to catch a criminal you have to get into their head. With the character of The Spectre that metaphor is literal. The Spectre was created in the Golden Age [...]
In 1991 a brand new comic publisher - Valiant - launched its debut title Magnus Robot Fighter, written by the company’s co-founder and former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter [...]
We go to work, we make our money. And for a large portion of the population we never actually see that money. It gets deposited into an account and from there gets distributed [...]
Fear is subjective. What might be frightening to one person might not even cause a shudder in another. So being able to articulate your own personal fears in a way that makes another feel [...]
In 1954, at the height of McCarthyism, the comic book industry was under scrutiny for being a corrupter of youth and an inciter of crime. And according to the book Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Werthram all of the issues of […]
Let’s get this out of the way right at the top…Man-Bat is ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong, I love it. The basic idea was to take the name Bat-Man, a man who dresses like a bat and reverse it to […]
The Vision and Wanda Maximov (the Scarlet Witch) are two of the most intriguing characters in the Marvel Universe. They are fan favorites – they have unique designs and compelling personalities [...]
Alien is a 1979 sci-fi horror film directed by Ridley Scott. It is – on the surface – a basic, by-the-numbers, base-under-siege, monster movie - with one major exception – the HR Giger-designed [...]
Archie Comics is a mainstay of the comic book industry. It’s been plugging away for decades telling simple stories of the joys of youth and the teenage experience [...]
I typically do not write about first issues of a comic book because – for me – I find the first issue to be the least exciting. Nowadays a first issue [...]
