Probably the most important learning experience in my life took place when I was about eighteen. One part of it was a comics masterpiece, published just as I was falling back in love with comics. Chris Claremont, a man who has never since written anything remotely as good, indeed who has rarely written anything good at all, wrote one of the ( Read more... )

By now, all my friends, as well as a very large number of people who will never be my friends, know that I have a kind of gift for online brawls and battles. I once made carlanime laugh by remarking that there was something unnatural about having a great big online brawl without me. That was a joke; in point of fact I am not particularly happy about this ( Read more... )

The seeds of the evolutionist idea were planted in the superhero genre from the beginning; ( Read more... )

As I wandered around the Internet last night, something nasty crawled out of it and took control of my browser. Now, not only does the browser point regularly at some stupid porn site or other, but even when I key in addresses I want, it from time to time forces me onto one of its porn sites anyway. It even happened when I was trying to access ( Read more... )