I was walking through downtown Lawrence tonight with Brooke and her dear friend, Amy. I was wearing my Flash T-shirt, and as we approached a crosswalk to cross the street, one of a group of young men standing around on the sidewalk called out, “Hey, Flash! Let’s race!” I smiled politely and said, “Nah, I’m [...]
One of the lesser-known superheroes to come out of the Golden Age of 1940s comics was the Hour-Man, “The Man of the Hour.” Chemist Rex “Tick-Tock” Tyler develops the drug “Miraclo,” which gives him heightened strength and endurance for 60 minutes. So of course he decides to put on a costume and fight crime. I [...]
Of all the superheroes coming out this spring and summer, the one I’ve been excited about the most is Green Lantern. I don’t generally read reviews, but just before the movie came out, I was seeing advanced word on Twitter that was discouraging me. Green Lantern just wasn’t getting very good advanced reviews or a [...]
Few things give me as much pleasure as reading a cracking-good superhero comic. I grew up reading superhero comics–I can barely remember a time when I didn’t have superhero comics in my life–and they still haven’t lost their appeal. I love bright, colorful stories of brave people in absurd costumes wielding strange weapons and using [...]
As I’ve mentioned, DC Comics is doing a huge reboot of all of its comics, starting everything over at #1 and introducing a bunch of new titles. Sadly, the more I learn about the reboot, the less enthused I am about it. Some of my dismay at the reboot is fairly petty. For example, I [...]
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