Category: But I Digress…

The Most Awards

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digresssmlOriginally published January 7, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1051

Here we are at year’s end, and it’s time for the installation of a new feature in But I Digress.

In keeping with the new nostalgic feeling for the 1970s (a thoroughly vile notion if ever I heard one; I mean, it was bad enough having to suffer through disco the first time. One is put in mind of Woody Allen’s line of, “Is there such thing as reincarnation? I hope not. Can you imagine having to sit through Ice Capades again?” But I Digress…) I am proud to introduce the Most Awards.

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But Why Digress

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digresssmlOriginally published December 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide 1994 Annual

After three-and-a-half years of writing But I Digress, which is (aside from Don and Maggie’s editorials and Cat Yronwode’s recently discontinued paid ad on page nine) the longest-running uninterrupted opinion column in CBG, it has come to my attention that there are some folks out there (fans and professionals) who don’t have a clue as to what an opinion column is.

But I Digress is forum for my opinions.

Not Marvel’s or DC’s or Image’s or Malibu’s or Dan Quayle’s or Bill Clinton’s. Not Don and Maggie’s or Rush Limbaugh’s or Howard Stern’s.

Just mine.

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Political Corrections, Part 2

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digresssmlOriginally published December 17, 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1048

Ooooh! Oooh! Hey everybody! Jo Duffy and Trina Robbins are having a catfight!

Can Catwoman’s breasts actually be milked for an entire column? No. But it’s a springboard for wider silliness, certainly.

Political correctness, as I discussed several weeks ago, is rearing its head everywhere. Even those worshippers of the whacked, the Addams Family—particularly the children—are treading ever so lightly in that direction. (No, this isn’t a movie review column; merely a further illustration of mindsets, that’s all.)

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