Day: April 4, 2016

Join us at Sandy's place in Rockwall, outside of Dallas, this Saturday (we'll begin Friday night, actually) for another spring Between-Fest. Details can be had by emailing me at ken@jabootu.com. Management has decided to refocus on movie-watching, so we're going to try to hold down the recent yakking and socializing that's characterized recent Fests.…

Before going into superheroes, Marvel published a lot of monster comics. This carried over into their superhero titles. Indeed, the first issue of their first superhero comic featured a giant beast menacing the heroes. Moreover, Marvel actually made monsters into heroes, or at least anti-heroes, like the Thing and Hulk. It was all quite…