Filed under: Marvel American war comics, over the past sixty years, have been political in a couple of interesting ways. Back in the '40s and onward, war comics were generally aimed at children, so nuance wasn't even remotely on the radar, and very patriotic and ... Read more Permalink | Email this ...
Missed the freaking bus to Holyoke. Déjà vu all over again. My sneakers were still wet. I was shaking and kept slipping in the slush, thumb out. The sky was hammered lead pounding me with stinging pellets of freezing rain. Fuck me dead, this New England weather sucks. Cars were passing, spraying run ...
I love a good comic book sale. The retailer up the street was celebrating his 22nd year in business and offering some good deals, including a 22-cent bin on the sidewalk in front of his store that was attracting all sorts of people walking past. I had just arrived when an old Italian woman walks by ...