This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at the neglected superheroines of Marvel Comics, known in the 1940s as Timely Comics. SILVER SCORPION  Secret Identity: Betty Barstow First Appearance:  Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941) Her final Golden Age appearance came in 1942. Origin: Betty Barstow, a feisty secretary for private investigator Dan […]

Los fantasmas han vuelto. Los hay buenos y malos. Los primeros me hacen cosquillas en la memoria y me pintan una sonrisa. Los segundos adoptan la forma de estiletes y se me clavan en la garganta, donde se amotinan las ganas de llorar. Es noche cerrada (e incierta). La ciudad duerme. Da igual si yo […]

Here’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog. THE LATEST DEMOCRAT RIOTS, THIS TIME IN PORTLAND, TARGET FEDERAL WORKERS WITH EXPLOSIVES AND MORE. Fascists are gonna fascist. DEMOCRATS CONTINUE STOKING THE VIOLENCE. SEATTLE’S DEMOCRAT SUPPORTING CHIEF OF POLICE PROMISES TO DO EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO HELP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS ELUDE ICE. […]

I’m still laughing over the way that anti-Trump fascists are so ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable that they idiotically believed that the parade last weekend was for Trump himself. IT WAS THE ARMY’S TWO HUNDRED FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY, HENCE THE ELABORATE FESTIVITIES. President Donald Trump’s birthday happens to be on the same date as the army’s […]