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Weather Wizard is one of The Flash’s enemies. He can control the weather with his Weather-Wand (obviously!). In the old days, he sported a snazzy green elf outfit with a big yellow belt. I like the superhero trend of wearing masquerade party masks, as if they would protect your identity. It’s probably a fashion [...]
Abner Cadaver is a semi-wizard character (he’s a “mystical entity”) in Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon series. I already wrote about a different one a month ago, but I could write something about Dragon every week if I put my mind to it, and since we passed Peak Wizard months ago, I think it’s [...]
One thing I’ve figured out as I’ve been writing these blog posts is that I’m not a great writer. In my head, my thoughts seem very multi-dimensional and fascinating, but when I put them on paper (on monitor?), they seem, to me, straight out of the pages of Duh magazine. But someone who [...]
Fon-Ti is a character in Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon universe. He is the creator of Mighty Man and the nemesis of Abner Cadaver. If Mighty Man is Larsen’s take on Captain Marvel, Fon-Ti is his take on Shazam (the wizard who created Captain Marvel, not the current, hoodie-wearing superhero). He was involved a [...]
I’m writing this post not only to celebrate Wizard* in particular, though he is cool. What I really want to do is to be the millionth person to recommend the original Lee & Kirby run on Fantastic Four, particularly the stuff from somewhat later in the run (the image at left is from [...]
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