Category: But I Digress…

Originally published April 24, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1275

Young Will Robinson looks to his sister Penny who—rather than wholesome and clean-cut—now evokes a style best described as “Punk Toontown” and possesses a voice that’s a cross between The Nanny and Lisa Simpson. Penny has just gone into gruesome detail as to what happens when one is faced with the effects of floating unprotected in the vacuum of space. And the cherubic Will wonders, “Do they have a name for what’s wrong with you?”

Sure do, Will. The name is, “The Nineties.”

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Originally published April 17, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1274

(And now… a But I Digress Elseworlds Green Lantern story…)

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Originally published April 10, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1273

Well, I anticipated that there would be some response to my column about sexual harassment. What I wasn’t expecting was the number of replies which basically said that they agreed.

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Originally published April 3, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1272

Well, this is going to be one of the harder columns to write…

When I first started on The Incredible Hulk, you have to understand… no one wanted to write it. The proof of that, more or less, was that I was writing it.

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Originally published March 27, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1271

It was one of those things where, even though you knew it was coming, you weren’t entirely surprised.

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Originally published March 20, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1270

More assorted things…

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On Usenet, a fellow named Greg D. posted, “I’ve been searching, with no success, for a Kingdom Come Theme for Windows 95.”

I have no idea what this means. I’m sure that lots of other people do, but I don’t. However, anyone who reads this column on any sort of regular basis knows that lack of knowledge on a subject has never slowed me down before.

So, ever-eager to be helpful, I composed the following, which I dubbed, “The Theme To Kingdom Come.” Considering I wrote it online in about ten minutes, it’s not half-bad. Not half-good either, but not half-bad. I’m not even going to bother to tell you what super-hero-related tune it’s set to; it should be fairly obvious. Heck, if it’s not obvious, then telling you wouldn’t help.

Continue Reading “The Cartoon Laws of Physics, and More” →

Originally published March 13, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1269

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It must really bite to be Leonardo DeCaprio right about now.

Fourteen nominations. Titanic picked up fourteen nominations, and he couldn’t score one for Best Actor despite the nominations of his co-star, the film itself, the director, and an assortment of other nods. The film is that rare combination of box office and artistic juggernaut, and with all that momentum going, he still didn’t get nominated. And the killer is, if he had gotten a best actor nomination, the film would have set a new record, beating out All About Eve (with which it is tied.)

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