A Job for Superman

I just finished a first draft of a book tentatively titled "Brains Beat Brawn Every Time: Superman's Transformation from Superhero ...

The way that title is phrased makes it sound like people are bugging me to write another book on that subject. They aren't. I just feel ...

Syfy's oral history. It's pretty long. I read shortened versions of this in a variety of books about Superman as I did my research...

When I was a graduate student working on my dissertation, I realized that I had one real goal for it: to get a job. That didn't so much ...

Well, Superman in Myth and Folklore is now available. It's a little earlier than I expected, too. I got my copies a few weeks ago, and ...

When I started my research on Superman, I didn't stop to consider why I would want to write about that particular topic. As I wrote the ...

In the days of yore I would go to the local drug store (M&R Drugs at the time, then Arbor Drugs, now CVS) to buy comics, rootbeer, Kit K...

And you can find it on Amazon , Barnes and Noble , etc . You might as well order it. Where else are you going to read about Superman coo...

I'm a relative newcomer to the works of H.P. Lovecraft. I read At the Mountains of Madness long ago, but then kind of forgot about i...

Over the past few years I've been slowly putting together a full run of the Marvel Rom comics from a few decades ago. It started whe...

I'm not sure how long this has been up at the University Press of Mississippi website....

In Cherokee myths, the sun is female, and she hates humanity because whenever people look up at her they scrunch up their faces against the ...

Three brothers were left penniless after their parents die, so they decided to split up and make their way in the world, meeting again after...

You guys read this book? It's by Cressida Cowell, and it's not bad. It's just not all that great, either. I never connected emot...