Monday, April 23, 2018
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Working On An Ashcan for My Odysseus Rex Graphic Novel
Monday, April 9, 2018
I've Published a New Music Zine, Abba Zab!
Abba Zab, the first issue of my new, B&W digest music review zine, is ready to ship. It's 16 pages jam-packed with LP reviews, CD reviews, podcast reviews and music documentary reviews. Only $4 ppd. Contact me for PayPal payments or other kinds of payments here or on Facebook.
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Recently Read: Golden Age Marvel Comics, Vol. 2
This book is oddly titled: it actually reprints Marvel Mystery Comics Nos. 5-8. At any rate, the origins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Marvel Universe in general start in this important book, wherein The Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch meet and battle it out! Never before had two Marvel characters interacted in a shared universe.
As with the previous volume, Bill Everett's work on Sub-Mariner is the best in the book - it packs a punch, with the mariner acting more like Osama bin Laden than a Marvel hero. Also great is Steve Dahlman's art for the underrated Electro: the Marvel of the Age series. Ferret: Mystery Detective has a ferretless story near the end; his series would soon be supplanted by Terry Vance, boy detective. The rest of the features are primitive, but fascinating as time capsules, and The Angel was about to get a lot weirder in the next volume.
Also features an introduction by Roy Thomas and contemporary ad reproductions.
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