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The never-ending conversation on life, liberty, and sequential art…

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Archive for August, 2008

How to cut the flow of resources and cash to criminals and terrorists dramatically:

Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Shawn L.

Legalize drugs.via Instapundit

Electric Cars: Government is overrated

Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Shawn L.

Here’s the entire text of a recent Instapundit post. EXPERTS EVALUATE THE McCain and Obama electric-car plans.This feels completely ‘bass-ackwards’ to me.Politicians don’t build or sell cars. Government doesn’t design cars. I’d rather compare the Volt with the Tesla; Contrast what General Motors, Ford, Toyota, or Volkswagon are planning to do with electric cars.Subsidies, incentives, […]

How will oil costs change comic distribution?

Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Shawn L.

Megan McArdle is talking about a Wall Street Journal article about how fuel increases are making industries look at how they distribute goods.From the WSJ: Companies that ship cheap but bulky goods are adapting the quickest. Three years ago, Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers, started revamping its distribution network. Its distribution […]

Comics Podcast Theme Month for October Announced: POLITICS!

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Shawn L.

From Comic Geek Speak panelist / producer Peter Rios in a post on The Comic Forums:At the end of May, CGS and ISR spearheaded the Comics Podcast Theme Week focusing on Diamond. You can find info on that here:http://www.comicrelated.com/commentary/ themeweek.htmlOut on the beach in San Diego, Charlito and I came up with a new topic […]

Major party candidates for president to be profiled in comics.

Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Shawn L.

These comics will be published by IDW: and due into stores by October.They’ll be available as separate books or a trade paperback collection in “flip book” format.You’d probably expect me to start complaining about the absence of Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s nominee’s biography in comics. No, I understand that this is mostly a marketing […]

70′s Comic Book Women Bring the Funk:

Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Shawn L.

via Kelly Fenton

My old band teacher was cool, but not this cool.

Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Shawn L.

No disrespect to Marlene Hall, the best band teacher you would ever hope to have, but she wasn’t a comics geek whose comics reading inspires her jazz compositions.That would be another music teacher, Kelly Fenton.Her professional website, includes samples of her compositions, including the Villains United Suite, Serenade for Donna Troy, Elegy for Ted Kord, […]

Ties are not T-Shirts.

Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Shawn L.

Senator Ted Stevens is the poster child for graft and porkbarrel spending. The metaphorical architect of the Bridge to Nowhere. He’s been recently indicted for receiving gifts from federal contractors.Worse, he’s committed the fashion faux pas of the Tie as a T-Shirt.Pictured here is Sen. Stevens in an Incredible Hulk tie with a variety of […]

“Able to leap inconvenient truths in a single bound…”

Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Shawn L.

from the Onion: Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet.)Al Gore as Jor-El? Nah, unlike Brando, he actually accepted his Oscar.

Escapism is overrated.

Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Shawn L.

Comics are at their best when they are about something more than just telling an entertaining yarn. Stories that make you think, and inspire debates about ideas much deeper that who can beat up who.It’s what has made Spider-Man such a classic book. It’s why I loved the Movie, The Dark Knight so much. I […]

Funny, I don’t recall Peter Parker having an Uncle Obama

Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Shawn L.

Taken in San Diego during the recent Comics Convention.I’m tempted to add Ambush Bug’s addendum, “No skill, no grace, but BAGS of responsibility.”