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Deliberately Creepy, Now Dead
Several years ago, our house-hunting hit a weird snag. We found a stately home in a beautiful neighborhood, but I wanted nothing to do with it. I couldn’t get past the evidence that the man who lived there (solo? in such a large house?) was…kind of creepy. I never saw the guy, and I can’t [...]
But Here’s the Problem with Wonder Woman
This story talks about yet another attempt to reintroduce Wonder Woman, this time with a new costume:
It’s a vast improvement, yes, but for all of DC’s effort to place WW in the Superman-Batman icon troika, it’s not worked yet, and likely won’t. Here’s why:
Her powers have always been a shadow of Superman’s. He’s all-powerful; she’s [...]
Does Liking Superheroes Mean You’re Gay?
This article in last Sunday’s Times makes the connection.
I don’t know. As a life-long (well, until very recently) devotee of superhero comix, I had a complex reaction to the story. On one hand, I found it did capture something about the escape that geeks and misfits find in the genre, and to the extent being [...]
Captain America vs. Anti-American Ideals
This story alerted me to a recent flap over the legendary Marvel Comics hero, Captain America. It seems that the Tea Party Movement, not widely known for its sense of humor or its tolerance for self-deprecation, took offense at the latest issue of the comic. It featured this panel:
The protest drew a friendly exchange between [...]
The Legion of Super…Somethings
As a kid, I was the kind of voracious comic book reader who would haunt the local store in anticipation of my favorites. At the top of the heap was “The Legion of Super-Heroes,” a 30-century group of teenagers whose clubhouse was a retro-future looking space ship impaled into the ground.
Cheesy, no? Well, so was [...]