Loose Cannon: Issue #12  Fri, March 30th, 2001 at 12:00am PST
Comic Books Larry Young, Columnist  Send This to a Friend
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your name.  You must enter your email address.   Sure, I'm
pissed.  The longer I pay attention to the comic book industry,
the more I see the effects of polarization. On. or off. Love or
hate. Hal Jordan or Kyle Rayner. Geez, if there were more
sideways comics, like the experimental issues of Cerebus or FF,
or Jim Krueger's Fly Boys, you'd eventually have a small cadre
of comics fans facing off against each other about which is
better: "up" versus "down."  I mean, it's so bad that The
Simpsons has a character named "Comic Book Guy" who does nothing
but expound in absolutes. Even the real world thinks that comic
book fans, if they think about them at all, are a bunch of
maladjusted folks who look at the world through black-and-white
glasses.  But there really is one of those things that needs to
be looked at in a "yes or no" sort