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I would rather eat glass than directly engage with people who think it's necessary or at all useful to police the content of artistic work for political respectability as determined by the least generous contextual interpretation of that work and a similarly magnanimous assessment of the intentions of the people who created it. I shit … Continue reading Stray thoughts: “bad art” edition

I'm back from Iraq. It was a wonderful experience and full of some of the most interesting people I've ever had the privilege of meeting and I hope to go back there soon. I'm accidentally backing into a niche of consulting on fake news for various people and places and I hope it's something I'm … Continue reading Comics Thoughts 9/16

If you like, you can see the emergence of a united trolldom in the comics fanbase, now apparently called Comicsgate [retching noise] as laterally related to Gamergate (which it apes), and to the Sad Puppies dickheads who tried to get eighth-tier hack sci-fi writer Ted Beale a Hugo Award because he was a white guy … Continue reading New Fun Comics

Prison Pit, Johnny Ryan's absolutely revolting sci-fi monsters-fighting comic, which makes me laugh until I wheeze like a banshee, is finished; I think most of the people who pass it in the store do not realize that the cover is an image of our hero with a monster's head impaled on his penis. This is … Continue reading Comics 6/30

A specter is haunting America--the specter of incivility. All the powers of legacy media have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise it, never mind the broader state of the world. Noting that President Donald Trump’s habitual slurs on black and brown people have been received, quite correctly, as government permission to express racism in … Continue reading On Civility

Jeff Sessions is a vile, despicable racist, who famously only objects to the Klan because they smoke weed, but he's being cited, as is Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose job it is simply to lie extravagantly, quoting Romans 13, the most important bulwark of fascism and irrational cruelty under the law against the compassion of Jesus … Continue reading On whether or not it’s “Biblical” to enforce “the law”

It has been a banner year for critics of liberalism, and with good reason. Deracinated liberal pluralism has given us many of our worst problems, it seems: an open hearing for a thieving, lying xenophobe in a presidential campaign that he unexpectedly won; a huge number of credulous fora for his ardent supporters in places … Continue reading Some thoughts on liberalism

I published a story today I've been working on for a long time, one of the cool ones you pitch that turns out the way you hope it will, about Frank Miller's sudden comeback. He's writing a Superman miniseries with John Romita of Daredevil: The Man Without Fear fame, he's got a couple of YA … Continue reading Frank Miller and Neal Adams

It's been a long few days (personal stuff; everyone's okay) and I'm sitting here next to a pile of comics realizing I haven't really run down my pull list and recent graphic novel reads in a little while, and also thinking that the idea I had for a Ten Favorite One-And-Done Single-Issue Comics post is … Continue reading Stray Thoughts — Comics 1/13