Cobbled Together: The Monster of Frankenstein

In 1954, at the height of McCarthyism, the comic book industry was under scrutiny for being a corrupter of youth and an inciter of crime. And according to the book Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Werthram all of the issues of teenage delinquency could be traced back directly to the reading of comics. Senate

Episode 27: Nexus of All Realities: Man-Thing Takes Manhattan

Today on the program: Giant-Size Man-Thing #2 And we're back! The long-awaited return of the Nexus of All Realities, the world's favorite Man-Thing podcast when it's actually updated! And on today's program, we're talking about the second of the Giants Size issues where Man-Thing gets captured and taken to New York to be exhibited in

By |2022-03-06T23:16:14-07:00March 6th, 2022|Being Green, Nexus, Podcasts|0 Comments

Which Thing Came First: The Swamp or the Man? (Self-indulgent Nerdfest II)

Comics are a business. Amid the artwork and the writing, the beloved characters and detailed worlds and universes it is easy to forget that these guys* also want to make money. And in doing so certain ideas and concepts get … let’s say borrowed … from time to time. But every once in a while

By |2023-05-21T09:03:32-06:00March 4th, 2022|Comic Books, Thoughts & Notions|2 Comments

What You reading? Roundup (2/08/21 thru 2/21/21)

I have been crazy busy recently so this post covers two weeks of reading. But to be fair in addition to two full collected editions of comics and 5 individual issues there is also a full novel. A short novel granted, but have you ever read Kerouac? There's a lot to take in I

By |2021-02-24T11:34:13-07:00February 24th, 2021|Comic Books, Features, What You Reading|0 Comments

What You reading? Roundup (1/24/21 thru 1/31/21)

I didn't do much reading this week comparatively speaking. I am still doing my deep dive into Buddhist thought and philosophy, something I have been interested in since my teenage years when I read Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums for the first time.  You'd think I'd be an expert at this point, but sadly no,

What You reading? Roundup (1/13/21 thru 1/23/21)

This is something new I'll be trying out. On any given week I'm reading a handful of things; novels and comics, historical non-fiction, and various essays and articles as research for sundry projects. So I am going to post what I read or am in the process of reading on a weekly basis in

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