The problem with dramas built around scenes where one character eloquently tells another character off — (and I am guilty of this sin, too; such scenes are all over the Andrea Cort series, which is at least a group of murder mysteries where one brilliant person gets to explain her epiphanies) — is that in […]
Some folks of the conservative bent are throwing public snits over Marvel’s SAM WILSON: CAPTAIN AMERICA #1, in which the current Cap, a black man, fights white supremacists. They take open offense at this, saying among other things that superhero comics are no place for politics. Now, this is shooting fish in a barrel. I […]
On the subject of Lovecraft, to which we keep returning: My own take is that he was supremely talented at describing dread and disgust and horrifically deficient in describing anything else; his admitted and proud disinterest in people as subjects of fiction shows in his work and renders the whole remote and soulless. His racism, […]