In recent years, the field of Comics Studies has exploded. Back in the 1970s, when my older brother occasionally drove me to Bob Sidebottom’s Comic Collector Shop on San Fernando Street in San Jose, the only widely available explorations were Jules Feiffer’s The Great Comic Book Heroes, Steranko’s two volume History of Comics, and Michael […]
In the 2788 of Janet Edward’s Earth Girl, humanity has colonized the galaxy thanks to planet-taming technologies and transportation portals resembling those from Stargate. Medical science provides for the regeneration of lost limbs, and many ailments exist only as descriptions in history books. However, a segment of humanity remains trapped on Earth due to an […]
Lugosi lives on for posterity not so much as an actor but as the personification of his greatest character. When he performed as Dracula, Lugosi spoke for his own personal legacy as much as for his character when he pronounced the immortal line, “I am Dracula.” – Biography The very essence of vampiric dread had […]
A juggernaut, he parts the startled crowd With promised force alone. The mothers hide Their children, chiding those who speak out loud; The men retreat, unmindful of their pride. All travelers give him space, and no one wakes The colors on his skin, bizarre designs Entwining his arms, ouroboros snakes Beginning where they end and […]
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.” — William Pitt the Elder This stupid flu advancing through my flesh Has worsened overnight, much like that gang of nasty little pricks who filled their wish For joyrides with my car. My job still hangs In Layoff Limbo too . . […]
. . . so then I said, “That brings to mind the debts Incurred by Edward, King of England, how The Bardi and Peruzzi almost met Their ruins for loaning him such large amounts.” I tried to help him, but he never gets It. “Old-world financiers could make it out,” I’d offered while he rolled […]
Torn up by buckshot hormones, teenage minds Can’t take in any information, save That spring consumes itself outside. Ten days Until school’s through! The learning curve defies My chalkboard stats. A talk on suicide Prevention must seem strange when kids have made Out graduation gift lists, and far away Reside the thousand natural shocks of […]
