As a media trade journalist since the late 1980's, I had some exposure to Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Baltimore-based executives — I can just tell you they are some of the most wacked-out, Murdoch-style Far Right monopolists and wingnuts in any American industry sector. David Smith, one of the sons of the founders and…

It was a different & very early version of the character, so there’s no reason to think he has the same back story in the new Amazon series, but he breaks out of an asylum on page one of issue #1 of the original comic series. Edlund never went into why he there or how, in a universe of mainly useless superheroes with…