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Thursday, August 26, 2004
Ponder, If You Will...
I wonder if being a comic book fan, a really big fan, isn’t just being dangerously materialistic. There are fans that pride themselves on owning all the issues of a particular artists’ run on Dr. Strange or owning all of the collected editions of a Vertigo title. There are some whose knowledge of Spider-Man trivia knows no bounds. But in all this rush to amass these artifacts of popular culture, is something getting loss? Isn’t there a worry that one could lose oneself in a mania and end up disregarding friends and family in favor of owning every comic Grant Morrison ever wrote? At the very least, isn’t it sad that there are those among us who will decline the opportunity to enjoy an autumn sunset, one of the natural world’s greatest gifts to us, in favor indulging in some rare Alex Toth crime comics? Is the world of comics just another entertainment machine that is so good at distracting the human race from finding themselves, except that comics have that extra-kick of having perhaps some of the most obsessive fans of all, as if the product is filling some dark hole in the fan’s soul?
Wait, what…Warren Ellis is writing Iron Man? Holy good gosh, I gots to read me some funnybooks!!
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