So Many Captains Marvel
At Radio Times, there is an explanation of all the Captains Marvel. (Thanks, Ann!)
Vaya Con Destiny, Amigos
Some say that the Tick was a mascot created for the New England Comics stores of Boston, MA, that this mascot leaped from newsletters to a monthly comic and then to an animated television series, followed by a live action television series and, most recently, to another live […]
“Eerie’s Greatest Hits”
The Internet Archive has a collection of Eerie Magazine’s Greatest Hits. It’s just one magazine, but it’s a good one. Peer into the Moldy Mausoleum of Maniacal Memories and see what spooktacular comic stories and art are there to chill and delight you!
171 issues of Doctor Who Magazine
The Internet Archive has 171 issues of Doctor Who Magazine, covering 1981 through 1991. Interviews! Comics with art by Dave Gibbons! Occasionally cantankerous fan letters! “The Gallifrey Guardian!” “FREE GIANT POSTER!”
“Eddie Brock’s Body: An Artistic Vision of the Venom Symbiote”
At Women Write About Comics, Paige Allen considers Venom and desirability. “Yes, Tom Hardy is hot, but that doesn’t mean people are also attracted to his movie characters to the degree we’re seeing now. And while teratophilia is an incredibly valid sexual expression, it puts the onus of […]
“Mysterious Traveler: Rutger Hauer, 1944-2019”
At RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz remembers Rutger Hauer. “From his early breakthrough years in in Dutch films by one of his most important collaborators, director Paul Verhoeven, through his more recent period as an oddball elder statesman who could be menacing or sweet depending on the requirements of […]
The Cultural Gutter 