…It is with great sadness and dismay that I report that longtime Blastoff contributing writer D Jason Cooper has passed away. Jason started writing for us in October of…
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Noir’s Spectacular Villains for Real
…until now. Art that wants to be successful imitates life, just as the pulps did all those years ago. D. Jason Cooper writes what he can, when he can. His…
The Shadow and the Shadow
…like the Shadow at the moment and it’s his view that’s creating those stories. I need more information – when’s the next issue of Masks out? D. Jason Cooper writes…
Do You Want Extra Superman With That? Part I: The Interlopers
In Crisis on Infinite Earths, they called Kal-L, the Superman of Earth 2, ‘the legend from which all others come.’ It may not be a fact but it…
Do You Want Extra Superman with That? Part II: Exploitation Begins at Home
The first DC Superman imitator may have been Hourman (1940), who has the same original powers of Superman, at close to the same level. But when Superman flew,…
Do You Want Extra Superman with That? Part III: Tribute is the Sincerest form of Imitation
Interlopers tried to cut themselves a slice of the profitable Superman pie, but for the most part DC saw them off. DC itself went on to create a…
Green Arrow: The Bronze Age
When they published Superman, the Golden Age began. When they redesigned the Flash and Green Lantern, the Silver Age began. But the Bronze Age is defined by a…
Children, Your Heroes
All this month, we’ll be helping Children’s Hospital Los Angeles‘ Make March Matter campaign, which aims to raise over a million dollars in March alone for CHLA…
Eyes of the Gorgon
WWWWW? That is, What’s Wrong With Wonder Woman? She has the most unfulfilled potential of any superhero in the DC or Marvel universes. Put that in corporate terms:…
The Magicians
Once upon a time they were numerous, and popular, and had significance in the history of comic books. Then, presto, they were all but gone, sucked into the…
The Magicians, Part II
In the 1940s comics had established certain patterns. If a writer and artist were told to come up with a stage-magician crime fighter, as opposed to a costumed…
If It’s Broke, Fix It
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” goes a relatively recent saying (honest, 1977). The obvious other side of the coin is if it is broke. fix it….
The Cosmic Fantastic Four
We tend to forget that, up until late 1961, Stan Lee’s professional career was a failure. Prior to the Fantastic Four, Lee has two things to his credit….