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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, 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
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
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
The Spirit (April 20, 1941) “The S.S. Raven”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 28, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) The Spirit has had a wider narrative scope as of late, but never before have Eisner and studio attempted anything like S.S. Raven. It’s a phenomenally weird strip, all about a killer Navy boat, with an ornery, lovab read more
The Spirit (April 13, 1941) “Croaky Andrews’ Perfect Crime”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 24, 2026
Croaky‘s tale is Spirit at its most didactic: crime does not pay. It’s also the strip stretching to center other characters, in this case Croaky and his best gal, Poison Mag. The Perfect Crime title is a tad misleading; Croaky’s crime is robbing some guy of a hundred thousand doll read more
All-Star Comics (1976) #72
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 24, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Bob Layton (inks) Adrienne Roy (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Joe Orlando (editor) This issue is another strong one for All-Star. Very strong. It gets there a tad cheaply—Golden Age Flash villain Thorn is now aggressively lethal, bumping off Keystone City rando read more
The Spirit (April 6, 1941) “Introducing Scarlett Brown”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 20, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) If you want to explore the peculiarities of Spirit’s characterization and visualization of Ebony White, Introducing Scarlett Brown is probably the most fodder the strip’s seen to date. Ebony, of course, is the Spiri read more
The Spirit (March 30, 1941) “Captured by the Underworld”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 17, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) The title gives everything away in this strip: the Central City underworld teams up (principally three gangsters) and successfully captures the Spirit. Not a particularly difficult feat, it turns out. They give Spir read more
All-Star Comics (1976) #71
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 11, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Bob Layton (inks) Adrienne Roy (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Joe Orlando (editor) Even leaving aside the delightful implication Green Lantern and the Flash are sharing a bedroom as part of GL’s rehabilitation (Joan does not appear, wink wink), this issue of Al read more
The Spirit (March 23, 1941) “Dipsy Dooble”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 4, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) The Dolans—both Commissioner and Ellen—are back this strip after a few weeks off. The Commissioner’s sick of Ellen just going to teas or dances; it’s high time she settles down with a husband or gets herself read more
Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 28, 2020
In the third act of Notorious, director Hitchcock and screenwriter Ben Hecht (who had some uncredited and quite exquisite help) figure out a way to get maximal drama out of a rather mundane situation. Well, mundane as far as the possibilities of American agents in Rio de Janeiro (with the permissio read more
Introducing the New Amazing
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 24, 2020
I’ve always wondered what would happen to blog readership if I stopped posting regularly. Not even daily, just regularly. According to the stats… not much. Because despite having sixty-four posts written and ready to publish (save the header images, which would take quite a while), I don’t have read more
Valley of the Gods (2019, Lech Majewski)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 11, 2020
Valley of the Gods is a cautionary tale. If you’re going to make a combination of Citizen Kane—with either actual footage or a recreated shot—and then a bunch of vague Kubrick nods, including Keir Dullea (arguably in the film’s best performance) as a snippy butler and a HAL while doing a retelling read more
House of Hummingbird (2018, Kim Bora)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 3, 2020
Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) is an average Seoul eighth grader circa 1994, which would be fine if being average weren’t a one-way ticket to nowhere. Park’s the youngest of three children; while presumably eldest sister Park Soo-yeon has already screwed up and is going to a crappy school across the bridge, read more