Scott D. Parker: Writer

If there's one great thing about ebooks and electric comics is that you can carry potentially your entire library on vacation.  But that...

I wanted it to be like it used to be, back in the day. If you read this blog, I wax nostalgic about a lot of things. Ever since last year...

Who knew this week would turn out to be Gregg Hurwitz Week for me? The week started with Hurwitz's author event here in Houston. He sh...

At a recent author event promoting his latest novel INTO THE FIRE, Gregg Hurwitz was asked how he became one of the writers on a monthly B...

Sometimes an author can deliver a sales pitch so good, you can't wait to see what he's talking about. Gregg Hurwitz may be a new...

Prolific writer Dean Wesley Smith calls summer the Time of the Great Forgetting. It’s that part of the year in which all those New Year’s Re...

In those pre-Internet days, you had two choices if you wanted to experience a film: see it over and over (I did) or purchase the novelizat...

I spent the bulk of my selections of free comic books selecting things I'd never heard of except for the DC comics ones. But the two sto...

[With the recent success of Shazam , I thought I'd revisit the first major superhero film.] “You’ve got me! Who’s got you?” Is thi...

Recently I was reading through a comic published in 1976 and I was struck by something: DC Comics actively encouraged kids to destroy their ...

Movie review? Check . Treasury comic? Check . Movie serial? Check . TV show? Check . All that's left are the comics. And what bett...

No Shazam-themed week would be complete without a glance at the 1970s TV show. Between the 1941 movie serial and the 2019 big-budget mo...

I am a comic book reader and a degreed historian, and being in a Shazam mood (both the new movie and a favorite comic ), I thought I'...

Naturally, after I watched the new Shazam movie, I reviewed it . Then, I scoured some of my comic boxes for some Captain Marvel material t...

At one point in Shazam!, Jack Dylan Grazer's Freddie Freeman asks his new foster brother, Billy Batson (Asher Angel) what superpower h...