hawkeye

DIE HEATHEN!!!
< ahem> excuse me. my attitude was showing.

just what the FUCK are you talking about? have you ever even read comic books, or are you just having the knee-jerk reaction that most people have to comics? (comic books? like Archie and Jughead, right?)
'Real' books? please. Comics are just as worthwile as Any other form of media. They are a truely unique blend of the textual and visual mediums, engaging both hemispheres of the brain, simultaneously. (movies can't do this. neither can "Real" books).
because of it's duality, the comic book is singularly well situated to gain the attention of the imagination. certainly, there is tripe presented in this format, but you can say that of any medium, from music and movies, to newspapers and 'real' books. (romance novel, anyone?) read Watchmen, and tell me that comics have nothing worthwile to say. read A Game of You, and tell me that comics can't influence attitudes and even worldviews
Read any of Starlin's Infinity series, and look at it as a discussion of power, corruption, and good intentions paving the road to hell.
Read Sandman, where Death is listening to a man complain about how he is dying too young, and how unfair it is. She tells him that "You get what anybody gets. You get a lifetime" Think about that for a couple of minutes. then dismiss it, because, after all, it isn't from a 'real' book. we can take this even further, you know. Let's discount Robert Heinlein, because, after all, he writings were mostly sensationalistic claptrap about things that break the laws of physics. regardless of his unique political//ethical theories, they are presented in such a manner as to allow us to completely disregard them.
(sorry for the long-windedness, that is just one of my buttons)

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