We haven't been a big comic book fan since we were a kid. Back in the 80's we liked Sgt. Rock, GI Joe, later The 'Nam, Robotech and finally Elf Quest, which was a rather ahem, interesting introduction to human or elven nature. Those who know, know. This was before the internet, people.* We were also really into the underground comic book press. We knew about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles before they were cool. And who can forget Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters?
Mock them all you want, but comics are an important art form. These are what we seek to be, to what we aspire. These are our heroic tales, as The Critical Drinker* has so passionately argued. In fact, comics are high art combining the visual with written words in a unique aesthetic. Comics are just as important to 20th century art as film and music. Skeptical? Ask yourself this. Who is more likely to be recalled in a century, Superman or Tom Cruise? Now that comics are often printed on heavy duty gloss paper, these will survive for centuries.
The Critical Drinker has chronicled the left's takeover of the comic book industry. That is, as the Star Wars sequels were made by people who didn't like Star Wars, comics are now being made by people who don't like comics. And so another institution falls.
Fortunately there are still people who like comics making comics. Vox Day, an interesting and very able man, has started a comic imprint, Arkhaven Comics. He's got his own publishing company, and info alternative, to which alert readers may have noticed we link.
What's next, we wonder? What are the Woke coming for next? When do they turn their sites on the Amazon self publishing industry? When do they come after us?
*After 35 years we still remember, Elf Quest Book 4, pg 46. It's an all out orgy.**The Critical Drinker is always right.
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