During my Operation Trojan Horse re-read I kept seeing the year of my birth- 1966- recur throughout the text. 

  Oh sure, that's a normal news story Well, it's an election year and you know what that means-- a veritable flood of covert...

I've written a lot about some of the more apparent connections and prophecies made in Jack Kirby's comics, and in our last installme...

The interfaith website Patheos asked me to write a piece about the new gods of pop culture. I discuss the various memes relating to superh...

Here's the 20/20 spot on Superheroes- that voiceover at the end is mine. And here are a few snippets from the article on the piece , w...

Reader Brooke brought these to my attention- the new mascots for the London Olympics . And what a surprise- more aliens. These are faintly r...

The basic story of I Am Legend is this - an Army microbiologist named Robert Neville is working to reverse a plague that wiped out most of...

"Hey honey, look at that  crazy blue spiral in the sky!" In the previous entry in this series I mentioned the strange synchroni...

  It used to be that "Sci-Fi/Syfy Original Series" usually translated into Secret Sun-ese as "for the love of God, stay far a...

Having recently discussed Hercules and shamanism and voyages to the underworld, I was flipping through one of my Essential Thor's , wh...

  Here's the pitch, cobbled together from a couple IMDB reviews... An alien race from the moon lands in ancient Greece, terrorizing the ...

There was a time in my life when I lived Dub morning, noon and night. I'm talking the old school Dub mainly, but also a lot of the work ...

Do you ever get the feeling that you're playing a part in some incredibly elaborate staged drama, that all falls together like a too-c...

The old master has not lost his touch. I'll be picking this book up, that's for damn sure. I'm framing that puppy. Ask your loc...

Here's a picture of Golden Boy when he stood vigil outside of AT&T's former world headquarters in Basking Ridge, NJ. The buildi...

My friend David Dodd is currently pursuing his degree in Intellectual Property law, but was previously a Latin teacher at prestigious Newark...

Part one of the Superman/Hercules presentation is up on Comic Book Resources. I was hoping to hand this off and move on but that's the...

It's a truism that superheroes are nothing new. Pulp superheroes like John Carter, the Shadow, Doc Savage and Tarzan predate  Action #1...

From The CBR Debate: "Swipe" is a ambiguous word. There's some of the egregious swipes we saw in 90's on one hand and exac...

First of all, let's establish the meaning of the term "swipe." I'm looking at this from the point of view of a graphic ar...