Posted in Comic Books, tagged Blue Beetle, Charlton, Friday Night Fights, Steve Ditko on February 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s time for Friday Night Fights, and as promised the Keeper has returned with his champion of the moment …
Ted Kord, The Silver-Age Blue Beetle.
Nowadays, the DC hive-mind has chosen to portray Kord as a lovable - but somewhat incompetent - hero who uncovered the OMAC conspiracy and paid the ultimate price.
That’s all well and [...]
Posted in Commentary, tagged Journalism, Links on February 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
As regular visitors to the Fortress may or may not know, your humble host devoted a substantial portion of his adult life to print journalism. The hours were long and the pay was lousy, but the Keeper drew great satisfaction producing quality work under intense deadline pressure.
We also firmly believe an informed populace is crucial [...]
Posted in Comic Books, tagged Carmine Infantino, DC, Sunday Pin-Up, The Flash on February 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Flash by Carmine Infantino
“Evil cloud creatures.” You’ve gotta love Silver Age DC comics!
And with that, we plan to take a few days off from the Fortress.
Don’t fret, true believers. Your friendly neighborhood Fortress Keeper will return for Friday Night Fights!
Posted in Comic Books, tagged Countdown, DC, Mary Marvel on February 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
As regular visitors to the Fortress know, your humble host has been less than satisfied with DC’s treatment of the Marvel Family.
Jeff Smith’s mini-series is undeniably Marvel-ous (ouch) and we have high hopes for the upcoming Johnny DC title, but for whatever reason the DiDiots who run National Publications keep trying to shoehorn Cap & [...]
Posted in Comic Books, tagged Amazing Man, Golden Age, Iron Fist, Marvel on February 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Whilst perusing CalvinPitt’s weekly comics reviews - a must-read for anyone interested in the less sucky aspects of the Q Continuum - we learned that Fortress faves Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker and a host of artists (including Russ Heath!) have produced yet another rip-roaring adventure starring Orson Randall, the Golden Age Iron Fist.
Cool [...]
