Five Cool Things and Moe Howard

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I think I’m going to go through all my Five Cool Things articles that I wrote for Cinema Sentries and post them here. I’ll do it in chronological order starting with the oldest.

I’m going to enjoy re-reading them and seeing how this series develops. For this one, my second ever to write, I talk a bit about how I came up with the idea and the name for the series. For the “And…” part I just used a picture of Moe Howard. I guess it took me a little while to actually start writing something about the sixth thing instead of just being silly.

I also write about Superman, Hell or High Water, Singing in the Rain, The Grateful Dead and Dumbo.

You can read it all here.

Superman: The Silver Age Newspaper Dailies, Volume 2: 1961-1963

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The thing about writing for Cinema Sentries is that you sometimes get access to oddball things besides Blu-rays. They’ve connected with the Library of American Comics who put out these really beautiful hardback books of old comic strips and the like. Sometimes I ask for a copy and then review it.

I’ve never read much of Superman in the comics. He’s not a character that interests me all that much. But I found this collection of newspaper comic strips of his to be quite fun. Silly, and ridiculous, but fun.

You can read my full review here.