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Month: August 2011
Drawing the Line
Originally published October 6, 1995, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1142
Where do you draw the line?
There are comics out there that turn your stomach, curl your hair. Comics with subject matter so repugnant, so vile, that you wonder how anyone could think it? How could anyone write it? God help us, how could anyone read it?
This is a new one on me
I’ve become used to the typical reasons that hostility is aimed at me. The guys who assail me because I have different political beliefs from them (including those who actually write to Marvel trying to get me fired because they didn’t like something I wrote on this blog). Or the guys who love to weigh in on any positive BBS thread about my work and try and lob crap at it because they feel I was mean to them three years ago, or they’re frustrated writers who believe that my success is as undeserved as their failure, and since they can’t do anything about the latter, they’ll try and tear down the former.
But the message I received recently was just on a different level.
I Wonder What Glenn Beck Will Say
When someone points out to him that a new video game later this year, “Spider-Man: Edge of Time” features a future Spider-Man who is ALSO half Latino. I wonder if he’ll try to hang that on either the Obamas or some evil liberal mindset. One can only guess what the reception to Miguel O’Hara would have been if guys like Beck had had the sorts of audiences they have now back in the early 90s.
You remember Miguel. The guy who had organic webshooters a decade before fans started screaming that organic webshooters in the then-upcoming movie version was the most stupid thing they’d ever heard of.
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Comics review: Sandman
Originally published September 15, 1995, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1139
At a recent convention, a fan asked me what comics I like to read. I mentioned the usual: Sandman, Cerebus, The Maxx, Sin City, Bone…
But I don’t think he heard me past the first one, because he said, “Sandman?”
I said, “Yeah.”
And he asked, “What’s that about?”
Which actually prompts an interesting meditation, particularly as arguably one of the best comic series that’s ever been published winds to a close. Just what is Sandman about?
So now that he’s turned 50
Two questions come to mind when considering that the President has hit the big half century mark:
1) Obama can look forward to that joyful procedure that everyone who lives that long gets to endure: his very first colonoscopy. Will that be appreciably different from dealing with Congress?
2) Based on what is now known, or at least widely believed, about JFK and Marilyn Monroe, can we infer that Obama is having an affair with Jennifer Hudson since she sang “Happy Birthday?”
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“Cowboys and Aliens”–I’m Not Sure What Fans Want
So I went to see C&A last night. What fascinated me was the response of the handful of people in the audience–and I mean four, maybe five people–as they sauntered out while the credits rolled.
“That sucked.” “What a waste of money.”
I don’t get it. It was a perfectly entertaining two hour diversion. It’s not like they pulled a switch and had the Dallas Cowboys squaring off against Mexicans entering the country illegally. It gave us exactly what it promised. It had Daniel Craig acting surly. It had Harrison Ford acting even surlier. It had cowboys. It had aliens. It had cowboys fighting aliens. What the hëll were they expecting? “Unforgiven” meets “E.T.”?
It’s a perfectly fine film, well made and well acted, with surprising depths given to its lead characters and all the classic cowboy tropes. It had a great supporting cast including Clancy Brown, Sam Rockwell and Keith Carridine. I’m really not sure what people are bìŧçhìņg about. I mean, okay, yeah, it was no “Oblivion,” but not everything can be.
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