Originally published October 8, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1351
As of this writing, Hurricane Floyd is bearing down on my neck of the woods, so I’m not sure how much time I have to produce this column. Originally we had been assured that by the time it got here it would be downgraded to a tropical storm. Unfortunately, no one informed the hurricane of that.
Sometimes I truly wonder who’s more useless: weathermen who practice such an inexact science that they constantly get it wrong, or us because despite all the times they get it wrong, we still pay attention to them every time. It’s as if we all have terminal short-term memory problems.
So I’m going to try and be succinct and just do a few scattershot thoughts before running outside and battening down the garbage cans and barbeque…
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