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Briefly (2 May 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 2, 2026
36 Hours to Kill (1936) D: Eugene Forde. S: Brian Donlevy, Gloria Stuart, Douglas Fowley, Paul Fix, Jonathan Hale. Relaxed cheapie thriller about gangster Fowley taking a cross-country train to escape a dragnet, only to run into somewhat nosy reporter Donlevy. They then get into a love triangle wit read more
Briefly (12 April 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 12, 2026
Big Driver (2014) D: Mikael Salomon. S: Maria Bello, Ann Dowd, Will Harris, Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett. Tonally concerning, poorly written adaptation of Stephen King novella about cozy murder mystery novelist Bello surviving a sexual assault and attempted murder. Way too many exploitation vibes for read more
The Spirit (June 29, 1941) “The Balkan Ball”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 12, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) Balkan Ball is an Ebony strip, which means there’s lots of racist caricature to negotiate, amplified by Ebony getting a sidekick, Pierpont, who is also visualized in racist caricature. Scarlett appears, too. So it’s read more
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977) #243
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 8, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Jack Abel (inks) Cory Adams (colors) Jean Simek (letters) Al Milgrom (editor) It’s one issue-long story this time, no backup, which is both good and bad. It’s bad because this issue’s a letdown from the previous two “Earthwar!” entries, but it’s read more
The Spirit (June 22, 1941) “The Tale of the Dictator’s Reform”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 6, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) The Tale of the Dictator’s Reform is not Spirit’s biggest creative swing to date, but the strip is definitely the wildest. Hitler coming to the United States on a fact-finding mission—only to have a change of heart read more
The Spirit (June 15, 1941) “Dusk and Twilight”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 2, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) Dusk and Twilight is, no pun, a dark strip. The splash page introduces us to Dusk, who may look like he’s in a carnival act, but he’s actually a murderer with hands of steel and a gentle disposition. We learn these read more
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977) #242
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 1, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) James Sherman (pencils) Bob McLeod (inks) Cory Adams (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Al Milgrom (editor) Once again, the feature story opens with Wildfire being a jerk. Last issue, he was going to let a Science Police officer die because her spaceship wasn’t well-maintained, and thi read more
The Spirit (June 8, 1941) “Five Passengers in Search of an Author”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 28, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) Five Passengers opens on a moody airstrip with an unlikely cast. A local schoolteacher’s favorite assignment is to bring the youngsters to watch the flight to Washington D.C. Each student gets to pick one of the pas read more
The Spirit (June 1, 1941) “Killer McNobby”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 27, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) And, now, Killer McNobby takes the crown for most formal flexing Spirit strip. They do the narration entirely in rhyme, with accompanying illustration. It’s almost like Eisner and studio realized if they didn’t do read more
All-Star Comics (1976) #74
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 26, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Joe Giella (inks) Adrienne Roy (colors) Ben Oda (letters) For the last few issues, Dr. Fate, then Hawkman, have had C-plots involving shadow messengers who come to collect them for a higher purpose. On the splash page, we discover this higher purpose: to pr read more
The Spirit (May 25, 1941) “Thomas Hawkins”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 25, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) Spirit’s been overdue for a nice, wholesome story, so when Thomas Hawkins starts the strip getting out of prison and the guard says, “Once a killer, always a killer,” it’s concerning. The strip turns around immediat read more
The Spirit (May 5, 1941) “Marta & the Renaissance Primitive”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 24, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) After the strip’s big creative adventures last week, Marta is a seemingly more conventional Spirit versus criminal-of-the-week strip. The slight deviations from the norm, such as the Spirit doing Sherlock Holmes-sty read more
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977) #241
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 23, 2026
The opening story, Prologue to Earthwar, is an all-time Legion banger, despite a bit of weaponized misogyny and classism. And Wildfire being okay with manslaughter on his conscience. Oh, and weird racism against the bad guys. They’re green and slimy, so the Legionnaires call them slime-related slur read more
Briefly, Comics (22 March 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 22, 2026
Black Panther (1998) #32 [2001] W: Christopher Priest. A: Bob Almond. The art’s great and the writing, when Priest takes a breath, is fine, but the issue’s a rapid mess. One thread starts, then another, then another, then another. One gets resolved, another, then another starts. Instead read more
Briefly, Movies (22 March 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 22, 2026
Dolemite Is My Name (2019) D: Craig Brewer. S: Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess. Good, not great biopic of DOLEMITE creator Rudy Ray Moore. In traditional Karaszewski and Alexander biopic style, the movie just doe read more
The Spirit (May 11, 1941) “A Dull Week”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 22, 2026
Dull Week is Spirit’s biggest formal swing to date. Ebony, Spirit, and Ellen are all (individually) on the prowl for adventure, and their stories all get tied together, plotting-wise, but also in rhyming, whimsical narration. It’s constantly delightful and Eisner and studio do well in how they dole read more
All-Star Comics (1978) #73
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 19, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Joe Giella (inks) Adrienne Roy (colors) Todd Klein (letters) Joe Orlando (editor) Fourteen issues into the book and–as nearly as they’ve ever come–writer Paul Levitz, penciller Joe Staton, and editor Joe Orlando have figured out All-Star. Some read more
The Spirit (May 4, 1941) “King Kohl, Emperor of the World”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 19, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) In terms of narrative flexing, King Kohl doesn’t try much. Kohl’s big idea is to use his gang’s criminal might to rob the Central City arsenal and use those weapons to take over the underworld. Kohl’s just out read more
The Spirit (April 27, 1941) “Ellen Dolan Detective Agency”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 10, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) After her most recent experience in the workforce as a boxing manager, Ellen Dolan has moved on to running her own Detective Agency, presumably under the assumption if her father and the Spirit can do it, she’s got read more
Briefly, Movies (4 February 2026)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 4, 2026
Behind the Mask (1932) D: John Francis Dillon. S: Jack Holt, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff, Claude King, Bertha Mann, Edward Van Sloan, Willard Robertson. Tedious–at under seventy minutes–thriller about the Secret Service trying to track down “Mr. X,” without realizing t read more