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It's cowboys vs. aliens in a 1960s Charlton Comics story by Denny O'Neill and Jim Aparo. Check it out at Diversions of the Groovy Kind.
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The president of the Royal Society of Chemistry in Britain says the evil schemes of villains depicted in James Bond movies have spoiled the progress of nuclear energy and planted fears in the public's imagination.
On the other hand:"It is not at all surprising that the public at home and abroad are sceptical,"David Phillips told the BBC. But he said the society believed "nuclear power has to be part of the future national energy mix, in which it plays a major role, complemented by renewable sources. Fossil fuels have to be eradicated for people to live in a healthy environment.""Let's say yes to nuclear and no to Dr No's nonsense," he added.
"Although James Bond is fiction, the truth is that nuclear power is dangerous, dirty and unsafe," Penny Kemp, spokesperson for the Green party said. "It is improbable to think that people's perceptions have been influenced solely by The World is Not Enough, but this film came after the Chernobyl disaster so the film was merely picking up on a real fear people have of nuclear power. And rightly so."-----
Stan Lee will narrate two "storybook apps" for young readers based on the Marvel Comics adventures of Spider-Man and the Avengers.
The great Walt Simonson is set to pencil a six-issue arc of Marvel Comics' Avengers series starting in April.
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The Comic Book Catacombs presents a nice adventure featuring Joe Kubert's Tor, from 1954.
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Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents some lovely, creepy splash pages done for DC Comics horror titles by the wonderful Michael W. Kaluta. We need a good, color reprint collection of this stuff.
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