Maurice Masse's passport to Magonia, July 1, 1965
This series -- which started as a look at comic book sorcerers and their real-world parallels and grew far beyond my expectations -- began with "The Possessed," a Doctor Strange story in which interdimensional alien walk-ins possess the citizens of a Bavarian hamlet. The story had elements of one of Stan Lee's favorite plots; the secret army massing for an invasion of Earth.
The Reason Rally® -- billed as the biggest-ever gathering of atheists, skeptics and so on and so forth--came and went without my reporting on it. I was busy with work and was also in the middle of the Millennium series that I'd been meaning to put up here for several years.
I've had a strange relationship with Fringe. I thought the pilot was great but the first half of the first season had a particularly irritating corporate/team-building/authority-boosting vibe I found particularly galling.
But it recovered beautifully midway through the first season and answered my prayers by picking up stakes and moving up to Vancouver.
Maurice Masse's passport to Magonia, July 1, 1965
