Wesley Dodds is my favorite kind of comics super-hero: he isn't. Zero superpowers, not even the "power to cloud mens' minds" like The Shadow. All he has is a trench-coat, a fedora, a gas gun, and a WWI gas mask. Which means, when he goes to work, just like Super Man or the Green Lantern, he's abo...
The very first concert I ever saw was Bruce Springsteen. It was his first big tour, and it pretty much ruined me for all the lukewarm performances of the rest of the 70s. Hell, it pretty much ruined me for everybody except Iggy Pop and Leonard Cohen and Loudon Wainwright III. Nobody ever cared as mu...
I love that they did this, because everyone wants to be a rock star, right?
I've enjoyed reading and writing reviews for a darn long time. I blame books like this.Around the time I was getting into music - well, I mean, besides listening to my own Disney records and boogie-ing down to mom's ABBA collection (in our house I was the Dancing Queen) - it was about 1983 or '84, a...
Quite outdated now, but fun.