Brendan Jones

Come along on a spooky journey as Brendan talks about Dracula. In this article he looks at Dracula's media portrayals over the past century.

MARVEL’S HORROR BOOM OF THE 1970S Ghoul tidings, my fateful fiends! ‘Tis I, Comic Book Curious’ very own merry Mausoleum Majordomo here to take you on a tour of terrors past and lay bare the shocking, shrieking secrets of Marvel Comics’ embrace of the eerie and their subsequent unleashing of all the hoary hosts of […]

The concept of teaming popular heroes together in adventures took off. Part 2 looks at the super team as it appeared in the 80s and 90s.

Brendan Jones is a fierce protector of the Man of Steel. In his starter guide, he gives his opinions of Superman comics through the years.

The concept of teaming popular heroes together in shared adventures took a few years to occur. Part 1 in this look at the early super team.

The Altogether Meh Backstory of DC’s Most Unlikely Team As I write this column, director-writer James Gunn’s first foray into the DCEU, The Suicide Squad, has hit the big (and little) screens. A “seboot” or “requel,” it’s a thrilling, violent, hilarious and occasionally moving covert ops movie starring a colorful crop of obscure DC villains […]

Orphan Training: An Examination of a Troubling Trope To paraphrase one of the most popular carpenters of 1st century Judea, “Suffer the little children to something something something” and, boy, did the creators of the Golden Age of comics take that to heart. But, then again, they would’ve been stupid to do otherwise once they […]

Dick's Growing Pains We all know Batman, of course. Pipe-smoking millionaire who, for no particular reason, dresses in a devil-horned cowl and little purple gloves, fighting crime in Gotham with his batarangs and trusty .45. That is, I should say, the Batman as we collectively met him in 1939. As I set forth in previous […]

It is often opined by folks being either pseudo-intellectual or snarky (or both) that the comic book superheroes are our society’s new mythology. Well, A) that’s dumb and B) get over yourselves. While readers around the world have thrilled to the four-color adventures of a heavenly multitude of superpeople for nearly a century now, the […]

Currently, on the streaming platform Disney+, Marvel Studios is airing a six episode series starring British actor Tom Hiddleston as fan-favorite MCU baddie Loki, the godlike being from the realm of Asgard who, unwittingly, led to the banding together of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (TM). He’s the first bad guy of the MCU to get his […]