Originally published April 30, 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1015
“Tragic failures become moral sins only if one should have known better from the outset.”
The above quote is from The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, a fascinating book on humanity—where we’ve been and where we are, in all likelihood, going to wind up.
I finished reading it during Wonder-Con in Oakland. It was unquestionably the best of that series of conventions I’ve been to: the best attended (it seemed) and most enthusiastic.
However, in the course of the weekend I was also witness to, or made aware of, two incidents that directly relate to Diamond’s gem mentioned above. Both of them, interestingly, are also germane to comics as well.
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