Category: But I Digress…

Mystery Movie Marquees

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digresssmlOriginally published September 8, 1995, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1138

If you look up the word “hectic” in the dictionary, you’ll see a picture of this past week.

In order to make my life simpler, I have a sort of “guest column” here by Corey Bond in Lake Charles, La. Corey was prompted by the column back in #1127, in which I pointed out the amusement of my local theater having two movie titles combined on the marquee, to wit: Die Hard Casper. And so Corey whipped up this sort of pseudo-BID column (pseudo in that it doesn’t run on anywhere near the length mine do) on the topic.

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A Comic Crisis Flashpoint

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digresssmlOriginally published August 11, 1995, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1134

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

One never knows what’s going to get reactions out of people.

I’ve written any number of annuals over the past years. One of them I wasn’t happy with at all. A couple I thought were OK. And a couple I was really pleased with.

Yet none of them received much of a reaction until recently.

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Movie review: Judge Dredd

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digresssmlOriginally published August 4, 1995, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1133

The streets of Mega-City One are ablaze with a citizen riot. The repressed lower class rails against a society where law and order no longer serves and protects, but oppresses and strangles.

Two peace officers—”Judges” by name and trade—are pinned down by overhead fire. They call for back-up as, high above, tattooed and snarling miscreants take aim with souped-up bazookas and shoot off more rounds.

And then the “back-up” arrives, in the form of a black-clad, helmeted engine of authority, astride chopper that makes the Batcycle look like a Big Wheel. He steps off the vehicle, surveys the situation. A microphone snaps into place and he bellows four words destined to go down in both movie and comics history:

“I am—duh law!”

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