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March 11, 2005


Gay Unwed Junkies Take Over Comics

Kevin Melrose had this article first, but I hope he won't mind if I make further note of its daffy, Billy Pilgrim quality and general oddball nature. Somehow the writer manages to make use of a half-dozen plot lines of the last 35 years of the kind that might run afoul of the Hays Code and fashions it into some strange kaleidescope of disreputable behavior. It's been a few years since I've seen the specter of Lobo invoked, that's for sure. The tone is more grandma at the pride parade than preacher at a book burning, but I don't think I've seen or heard anybody use gays and junkies interchangeably since the last time I saw a rerun of Cannon.

Hey, if comic books do end up making a return to their traditional values, at least the bloodthirsty racists among us can look forward to the wholesale slaughter of animalistic Japanese.

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