“Are you out of your mind? You don’t go snooping around the guy from another world’s murder van!”
Superman faces actual life-threatening danger. The Captain Luthor arc ends for now, but a larger threat looms.
Meanwhile, on Smallville: The Next Generation, The Cushing Family drama intensifies as the Kent boys leave football behind and Lois sees a therapist.
Paul Soles has died. The Canadian broadcaster and the voice of several 1960s cartoons, including Hermey the Elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Bruce Banner and Rick Jones in the ultra-low-budget Marvel Superheroes Hulk cartoon, and Peter Parker in the famously-themed Ralph Bakshi-produced Spider-man cartoon, was ninety.
David Anthony Kraft, comic-book writer, rock journalist, SF/fantasy publisher, and creator of Comics Interview, has died after a prolonged battle with COVID-related pneumonia. He was 68 years old.
Kraft wrote for several companies, and many remember him best as one of the writers who introduced social issues into his comic-book stories. He had particularly memorable runs on The Defenders and She-Hulk.
Winnipeg, Manitoba hosts the virtual edition of Keycon, and registration is free. The schedule features a number of events, from crafting to SF novels to Trek to Randy Rainbow parodies. I’m involved with one reading and two panels– one event each day.
If you’re looking for a virtual taste of a smaller SF/Fantasy Con, check it out.
The Superman Family returns, with issues of trust and a mine full of kryptonite.
I understand they eventually will be releasing a new season.
As I’m sure most of you know (but we forgot to post), Michael Collins, the member of the historic Apollo 11 crew who did not get to touch the moon, died on April 28, 2021, at the age of 90. He had been suffering from cancer.
Missing SF conventions? Michigan’s Penguicon, a meeting of SF/Fantasy Fandom, Techies, Open Source Coders, Hackers, and general nerds-at-large goes online this year, with a cost of only $10:00. It actually opened yesterday, but it really doesn’t take off until tonight, and there’s still a lot of virtual space available.
Mothra! Why did you say that name?
–Internet meme that proves 100% accurate, despite the absence of the giant Lepidoptera
The big ape dukes it out with the lizard king, and humanity gets caught in the middle.
Arkady Martine’s debut novel A Memory Called Empire received multiple award nominations and won the Hugo for best novel. The first in a series, it was followed in March of 2021 with this novel, with more of the conflicts and intrigue involving the future Teixcalaanli Empire, the “barbarian” human settlements in its environs, and some very interesting extraterrestrials.
The more you explore your reality, internal and external….