Scarred by SuperFriends

Friends, I wasn’t always the superhero-loving comics reader you see before you. I underwent a tribulation, a trial of faith, wandering in a wilderness without capes. My resistance to superheros and the Justice League of America in particular stemmed from one root: The SuperFriends. I can’t, in general, […]

Taking Back Horror

Hey, Freddy and Jason, Fewdio want to take horror back: “All the members of Fewdio felt that the term “horror” had been hijacked by gore hounds and slasher fanatics. There’s nothing wrong with those two subgenres, not by a longshot, but they are subgenres. People hear horror nowadays […]

Got to Get Back to the Start

The end of the world, via scientific calamity, and falling off the literal edge of the world – that’s one connection between Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett. The other link? My attempt to see what two writers, well-known to others, […]