One of my pet peeves is the use of a comic-book scene as metaphor for a real-world situation, often a sign that the writer cannot think in more sophisticated terms. However, I am about to do just that. In an early issue of JOHN CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER, we check in on the current whereabouts of the […]
Originally published on Facebook (in slightly different form) 9 May 2015. You know, there’s a great – devastating, but great – story from the early days of the AIDS epidemic, culminating when the nurse-narrator hugs a patient in the last stages of the disease. He bursts into tears. “Oh, thank you, thank you,” he weeps. […]
I took the test: “Which Member of the Justice League are you?” and the result was, “Don’t be fucking stupid. You’re not a member of the Justice League. There’s no way ten vaguely phrased questions can possibly equate you to a fictional character from a goddamned comic book. Don’t you have ever better things to […]