Tuesday, May 3, 2022

"WHY DID KIRBY THINK HE COULD WRITE?"

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 I saw this question on Classic Horror Film Board, so here's my answer. __________ That's a complicated question, and a lot of diffe...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

THE READING RHEUM: THE GOLDEN SCORPION (1918)

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  In my review of Rohmer's 1931 novel  DAUGHTER OF FU MANCHU , I quoted a Wikipedia article about the fourteen-year gap between that nov...
Monday, April 25, 2022

MYTHCOMICS: "LET IT COME DOWN" (LOEG: CENTURY #3, 2012)

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  Although my title references only the third part of the Moore/O'Neill CENTURY trilogy-- one of the last few offerings in the LEAGUE OF...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

UNTIMELY RUMINATIONS #2

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Here's another blast from the past, taken from AMAZING HEROES #51 (1984), when Steve Gerber was hyping VOID INDIGO : Gerber believes tha...
Monday, April 18, 2022

NEAR-MYTHS: THE ETERNALS (2006-07)

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  Prior to the original run of Jack Kirby's ETERNALS, there were a couple of attempts to revive the franchise. I read one and not the ot...

MYTHCOMICS: "CYCLONE AT THE CENTER OF A MADMAN'S CROWN" (MASTER OF KUNG FU #33-35, 1975)

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 [NOTE: The summary title I chose for this three-part MOKF adventure is taken from the title of issue #34, because I felt it summed up the p...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

NULL-MYTHS: "GHOST RIDER VS. FRANKENSTEIN" (GHOST RIDER #10, 1952)

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Given my enthusiasm for crossovers, I allowed myself to get my hopes up for this one. Yet even as I started the story, I was pretty sure tha...