Author's Note: I didn't mean for both of my first two comic book pieces to cover the work of Tom King, but here we are I suppose... Event comics are tricky things. In one regard, they're the primordial soup of the modern superhero film. For instance, while most of Avengers: Endgame was an original story, … Continue reading Heroes in Crisis – The Act of Talking

Boy, I sure am writing a lot about superhero movies aren't I.... Harley Granville-Barker once succinctly summarized Romeo and Juliet as "a tragedy of youth, as youth sees it." It's important to remember that even in its time, Shakespeare's version of Romeo and Juliet was not an original work. It was an adaptation of a … Continue reading Shazam, Verisimilitude and Perspective