Comments on: Book Selection of the Month: Comic Books! http://toddseavey.com/2007/09/05/book-selection-of-the-month-comics-books/ Conservatism for punks. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:22:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Jacob T. Levy http://toddseavey.com/2007/09/05/book-selection-of-the-month-comics-books/#comment-2409 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:37:30 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/09/05/book-selection-of-the-month-comics-books/#comment-2409 <i>his post-apocalyptic character Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth, who Reason editor Nick Gillespie once told me he feared would be referred to in every issue of that magazine if he did not take a hard line against letting notoriously nerdy libertarians write about whatever stupid pop culture artifacts they want to</i> <i>That</i> would be awesome. The final two ages you mention-- call them the Busiek-Morrison-Waid-Ross age and the Johns-Bendis-Meltzer-Millar age-- have struggled against each other in the market for a while. I don't think the former is dead yet, though the latter's ascendant. They've each had their signature indie series (Astro City vs. Powers), flagship series (Morrison's JLA and Busiek's Avengers, Meltzer's JLA and Bendis' Avengers), and crossovers or events (Kingdom Come/ DC One Million, Civil War/ Identity Crisis). It's a complicated moment; I wonder how it will be remembered. his post-apocalyptic character Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth, who Reason editor Nick Gillespie once told me he feared would be referred to in every issue of that magazine if he did not take a hard line against letting notoriously nerdy libertarians write about whatever stupid pop culture artifacts they want to

That would be awesome.

The final two ages you mention– call them the Busiek-Morrison-Waid-Ross age and the Johns-Bendis-Meltzer-Millar age– have struggled against each other in the market for a while. I don’t think the former is dead yet, though the latter’s ascendant. They’ve each had their signature indie series (Astro City vs. Powers), flagship series (Morrison’s JLA and Busiek’s Avengers, Meltzer’s JLA and Bendis’ Avengers), and crossovers or events (Kingdom Come/ DC One Million, Civil War/ Identity Crisis). It’s a complicated moment; I wonder how it will be remembered.

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