A Cannon Fires Only Once But Words

A Comic Will Always Be More 'personal' Than A Dvd Or Cd, Both Of Which Require Electronic 'players' To Decode Their Content. With Comics, The Reader Is The Player So The Engagement With The Material Is Always More Fundamental And Dynamic. Reading Comics Is A Much Less Passive Activity Than Consuming Cds And Dvds.

We Tell Our Children They're Trapped Like Rats On A Doomed, Bankrupt, Gangster-haunted Planet With Dwindling Resources, With Nothing To Look Forward To But Rising Sea Levels And Imminent Mass Extinctions, Then Raise A Disapproving Eyebrow When, In Response, They Dress In Black, Cut Themselves With Razors, Starve Themselves, Gorge Themselves, Or Kill One Another.

We're The New Power, Come To Replace The Old. Cameras In The Head, Children With Microchips, Spin Doctors Rewriting Reality As It Happens.

Life Doesn't Have Plots And Subplots And Denouements. It's Just A Big Collection Of Loose Ends And Dangling Threads That Never Get Explained.

Seven Actors Have Played Batman On The Big Screen, And If You Can Name All Seven Without Reading Any Further, Your Youth Has Been Wasted.