Another installment of the column I used to write for Bookgasm.com:
Thanks to Batman, comic books were cool in the 1960s. They’d been kid stuff in the ‘40s, a danger to the very moral fiber of our great nation in the ‘50s, but Adam West in a leotard got people to take a new and different look at comics.… Read the rest
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With this, that and the other thing lately, I haven’t had the time (or energy) to tend to this page and to other things as well, including my (usually) bi-weekly Bookgasm.com column, Capes, Cowls & Costumes. I’m trying to schlep myself back on track, beginning with “Rated X,” a look at just a few of the three dozen-plus X-Men novels and anthologies that have seen print.… Read the rest
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That’s right, boys and girls, it’s that time again…Capes, Cowls & Costumes takes a look at some fine (and some not so fine) prose stories that have appeared in comic books over the years, including work by Dennis O’Neil, Grant Morrison, Peter David and The Shadow creator, Walter Gibson.… Read the rest
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Over on Bookgasm.com, there’s plenty more reading material to get excited about, including the latest installment of my own Capes, Cowls & Costumes. In this week’s thrill-packed episode, I take a look at some widdle kiddie books for kids from tots to teens.Continue reading about It’s A Capes, Cowls & Costumes Friday. Read It…For The Children!
Actually, the latest installment of my Bookgasm.com column, Capes, Cowls & Costumes has absolutely nothing to do with the New York Comicon, where I am today. Instead, it’s about Wonder Woman’s appearances in novels and short stories, which is a whole lot more interesting than novels about comic book conventions.… Read the rest
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For this week’s Capes, Cowls & Costumes, I asked some of my media tie-in colleagues which superhero they would like to novelize if given their choice.
Check out what they had to say over on Bookgasm.com!
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Once again, a new installment of Capes, Cowls & Costumes is up on Bookgasm.com, this installment looking at novels adapting major comic book story lines, including Crisis On Infinite Earths and Kingdom Come. Check it out.
Really, do I ask you for much?… Read the rest
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…Now it’s a CC&C Saturday. Sorry for the sparse postings this week but things have been hectic and strange the last few days. Nothing bad or even particularly interesting, just unusually busy and frequently distracted because, as a writer, I only get to spend about 20% of my time writing.… Read the rest
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That’s right, yet another thrill-packed episode of Capes, Cowls & Costumes is up and ready for viewing on Bookgasm.com (‘Reading Material to Get Excited About’). Not a week goes by that I don’t pick up or add to my list at least one book I’ve seen reviewed thereon.… Read the rest
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And, for those who care, there’s a new installment of Capes, Cowls & Costumes up on Bookgasm.com! This time around, I take a look at novels written by comic book writers that are not comic book related, including Steve Englehart, John Byrne, Jim Starlin and Warren Ellis.… Read the rest
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