Seduction of the Indifferent

Some of you may not know that my wife Kat and I do a movie podcast called Married With Clickers . Every May we focus exclusively on disaster...

Here is an interesting one. I really love this cover as it has the  amazing mixture of bright colours and stark grey that I have come to lov...

How have I never bought this one? I'm a big fan of the movie, and even got the chance to take my son to see it on the big screen at the ...

Today would have been Lee Elias' 95th birthday. My love for his work has grown by leaps and bounds over the years. I know that some folk...

Here's a good example of the kind of entertaining romance book Charlton was able to produce in the early 70s. The cover is simply a coll...

This was a blind buy for me last year. It caught my eye, I did a quick flip through and the sheer pulpiness of it had me pulling out my wall...

When will I learn? I've have been burned by issues from the main Secret Society of Super-Villains series, so why did I think this would ...

I haven't done these in a while, but I've been reading and re-reading from this era a lot in the past couple of weeks so I thought I...

Close your eyes and think of all of those great war covers Kane did for DC in the 50s and 60s. Having a hard time picturing any, aren't ...

Remember the good old days when comics were often about real people? Or at least about the type of people that we, the public, thought they ...

Here's a bit of an oddball comic from Marvel in the late 70s. Right in the middle of a run of Captain America and Avengers reprints, Mar...

I learned this afternoon that Mr. Trimpe has passed away. From all accounts, he was a great human being. I was an admirer of his artwork an...

Squirrel Girl. Who doesn't love her? With her powerful tail, 'can-do' spirit and overcaffeinated Steve Ditko eyes, she was a bre...

I've said it before and I'll said it again: I love the Atom! He's one of my all-time favourite heroes but he has never had wha...

If you read enough comics, you'll realize that crystal balls were used as a cover gimmick in many genres, over many decades. Let's t...