Outside the Beltway

This week: that 70’s superhero show.

History rhymes in uncanny ways

Novo Nordisk is worth more than home country’s Denmark annual GDP.

Police and the Punisher Skull

Mild spoilers ahead.

His column for The Hill feels more like concern trolling than anything else.

The days of one-stop media shopping are long gone.

Stan Lee’s former business manager has been arrested on charges that he used his influence over the late Marvel Comics founder to divert funds and alienate Lee from his family in his final months of life.

The damage done for Mickey Mouse in the name of Sony Bono is finally coming to an end.

Rest in Peace and Excelsior, Stan Lee!

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

Some thoughts on the biggest Marvel blockbuster yet. [Modest spoilers]

The new Black Panther movie raises a variant of the central question of the superhero genre. [No significant spoilers]

The summer of 2014 was the worst Hollywood has seen since Bill Clinton was President. It’s pretty easy to figure out why.

Fox and Disney are in a legal fight over movie rights to a minor comic book character.

Issue #700 marks the final issue of Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker’s run as that character. For now.

Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.

Jack Kirby’s heir are trying to posthumously renegotiate half-century old deals with Marvel.

DC is once again resetting the clock on its universe and starting all its books over with issue #1.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has mastered the worlds of bodybuilding, show business, and politics. Next, he’s going to try his hand at being a Marvel superhero.

James Franco is a film director, screenwriter, painter, author, performance artist and actor. And working on a PhD at Yale.

Changing economic realities led to a role reversal: television is where you turn for smart entertainment, whereas the movies have become lowbrow.

When I started collecting the books, back in early 1977, copies of Action #1 were available for something like $3500.