I checked the headlines this week and found out that the sky is falling in the world of the comic industry these days. There is a lot of debate about what the root cause of all this is and what to be done about it, but after picking up a copy of Weird Western Tales […]
Heavy Metal December 1977: When We Had Bande Dessinée at Home!
A long time ago, I came back from a month as an exchange student on the French Riviera bearing gifts. Sure, I was loaded down with postcards of topless women. And one lucky son of a gun received a French translation of the FASA BattleTech Black Widows supplement. But the stuff that really blew our […]
How Crisis On Infinite Earths Ruined DC Comics And Their Perfectly Readable Bronze Age
Truth be told, I was never a DC fan. When I was a kid, edgy characters like Wolverine and the Punisher took all the air out of the room. Anything that smacked of the old 1970s Super Friends cartoon was automatically uncool. Worse, DC had adopted the worst possible frame for its phenomenal long-running characters. […]
