Actually, at least in the blogosphere, enough people that I respect have read and really liked comic books that I feel a little illiterate for not having read more.
That link goes to the frame. Possibly you wanted this. (Or you could go here or here; pictures here.)
I think Bishop is rather cranky in terms of what one wants for a Mayor; a bit more diplomacy tends to be in order. And I'm not sure that being from an apocalyptic alternative future where genocide of mutants took place gave him a helpful background for being an urban politician, though it does account for the crankiness. But maybe one wants a mayor who doesn't threaten to shoot people quite so much.
4: Same here. My entire comic-book education consists of the semester between when I left MIT and went to the University of Chicago. I was still living in my MIT coop, and there was a big locker in the basement filled with a couple of years of X-Men, SpiderMan, and various other assorted comics. I read the locker-full over that semester, but that's it. (Sally is fascinated by WonderWoman at least, and I figure I'll keep feeding the fascination as long as she's interested, which means I can borrow the collections I get her. Which will be some form of remedial comics education.)
I always want to read "Silvana" as "Sivana." She's probably not as evil, though.
And totally OT:
"Last year, the group independently released an eight-song, self-titled demo cassette wrapped in a condom, and Carroll has kept up a sort of homosexual version of Ice Cube's "The Nigga Ya Love to Hate" act throughout Faggot's two years. Part of that project involves stage antics: Carroll has put any number of things into his ass onstage, from guitars to a pair of tighty-whities wrapped in a condom."
12: as if you know anything about comics. Or drawing.
13: "Sally is fascinated by WonderWoman at least, and I figure I'll keep feeding the fascination as long as she's interested, which means I can borrow the collections I get her. Which will be some form of remedial comics education."
Sort of; kinda limited. Wonder Woman has often tended to be one of the least-connected books to the larger DC Universe, particularly given that she's commonly regarded as one of their Big Three Characters; but they've generally had a lot of history of having trouble making her work. In her own book, anyway, as opposed to, say, Justice League incarnations.
Though she did recently kill Maxwell Lord by snapping his neck in cold blood, and thus resulting in a lot of blowback, admidst the ongoing onslaught of Real Moral Issues and whatnot in the current DC Universe (which I only know about via reading on the internets, rather than seeing the actual comics).
And, of course, as suggested by Mr. Jones, there's a lot more to comics than DC/Marvel, which plenty of comics fans will sneer to their utmost at. But I'm not the right person to be your guide.
Hmm, I don't know how decent or awful Birds of Prey was; might be too adult for Sally, anyway; how old is she, again? (Young, I know.)
According to the article, the mayor's security detail tackled the robber. Not sure how heroic it is make a show of running after the bad guy when you know your beefy bodyguards are right there with you to step in and do the rough stuff.
That's what happens to people who run with scissors.
Posted by transplant | Link to this comment | 07-18-06 10:22 PM
I don't really read comic books, but I think Cory Booker is Bishop.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-18-06 10:44 PM
I don't really read comic books
You just read them for the articles.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-06 10:49 PM
Actually, at least in the blogosphere, enough people that I respect have read and really liked comic books that I feel a little illiterate for not having read more.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-18-06 10:51 PM
Booker told The Star-Ledger of Newark he yelled "not in my city" at the scissors-wielding suspect.
Oh Lord. Now I wish he'd gotten a mild stab from those scissors. Nothing permanent, maybe a nice puncture to the leg.
Posted by gswift | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:10 AM
"...but I think Cory Booker is Bishop."
That link goes to the frame. Possibly you wanted this. (Or you could go here or here; pictures here.)
I think Bishop is rather cranky in terms of what one wants for a Mayor; a bit more diplomacy tends to be in order. And I'm not sure that being from an apocalyptic alternative future where genocide of mutants took place gave him a helpful background for being an urban politician, though it does account for the crankiness. But maybe one wants a mayor who doesn't threaten to shoot people quite so much.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:57 AM
Although Arnold did get elected Gubinator, to be sure. But, then, that's worked out in rather mixed fashion, so far, at best.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:58 AM
3: "You just read them for the articles."
The articles in the back of (some of) Alan Moore's comics tend to be quite good, in fact.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:59 AM
5: Yeah. Seriously coolness demerits for quoting yourself.
Posted by mrh | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 6:36 AM
Ahem. "Seriously" s/b "Serious."
Posted by mrh | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 6:38 AM
I talked with Jacob T. Levy the other night! About comic books, even.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 6:43 AM
Alan Moore, fah! Real men read Sock Monkey.
Posted by strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 6:54 AM
4: Same here. My entire comic-book education consists of the semester between when I left MIT and went to the University of Chicago. I was still living in my MIT coop, and there was a big locker in the basement filled with a couple of years of X-Men, SpiderMan, and various other assorted comics. I read the locker-full over that semester, but that's it. (Sally is fascinated by WonderWoman at least, and I figure I'll keep feeding the fascination as long as she's interested, which means I can borrow the collections I get her. Which will be some form of remedial comics education.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 6:57 AM
Cory Booker may be Batman, but he sure ain't Shazam.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 7:52 AM
Exactly right.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 7:56 AM
14: Captain Marvel wins, if for no other reason than the fact that his arch-nemesis is an evil telepathic caterpillar.
Posted by strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 8:02 AM
I always want to read "Silvana" as "Sivana." She's probably not as evil, though.
And totally OT:
"Last year, the group independently released an eight-song, self-titled demo cassette wrapped in a condom, and Carroll has kept up a sort of homosexual version of Ice Cube's "The Nigga Ya Love to Hate" act throughout Faggot's two years. Part of that project involves stage antics: Carroll has put any number of things into his ass onstage, from guitars to a pair of tighty-whities wrapped in a condom."
I share because I love.
Posted by Paul | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 9:47 AM
Everything is going according to plan.
Posted by Bruce Wayne | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 9:53 AM
Wow! A whole guitar?
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 9:54 AM
Why do all these homosexual guitars keep pushing themselves up my ass?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 9:55 AM
homosexual guitars
Gaytars. Labs prefers the base gaytars.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 10:16 AM
A whole guitar?
But only half a piano.
Posted by Paul | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 10:30 AM
A whole guitar?
In the guitarhole.
But only half a piano.
In other words, mezzo piano.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 10:42 AM
12 is bad and sexist. Real women love Sock Monkey too.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 11:42 AM
24: I didn't exclude real women from the set of Sock Monkey lovers, B.
Posted by strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 1:20 PM
12: as if you know anything about comics. Or drawing.
13: "Sally is fascinated by WonderWoman at least, and I figure I'll keep feeding the fascination as long as she's interested, which means I can borrow the collections I get her. Which will be some form of remedial comics education."
Sort of; kinda limited. Wonder Woman has often tended to be one of the least-connected books to the larger DC Universe, particularly given that she's commonly regarded as one of their Big Three Characters; but they've generally had a lot of history of having trouble making her work. In her own book, anyway, as opposed to, say, Justice League incarnations.
Though she did recently kill Maxwell Lord by snapping his neck in cold blood, and thus resulting in a lot of blowback, admidst the ongoing onslaught of Real Moral Issues and whatnot in the current DC Universe (which I only know about via reading on the internets, rather than seeing the actual comics).
And, of course, as suggested by Mr. Jones, there's a lot more to comics than DC/Marvel, which plenty of comics fans will sneer to their utmost at. But I'm not the right person to be your guide.
Hmm, I don't know how decent or awful Birds of Prey was; might be too adult for Sally, anyway; how old is she, again? (Young, I know.)
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 2:21 PM
Just about to turn seven.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 2:24 PM
According to the article, the mayor's security detail tackled the robber. Not sure how heroic it is make a show of running after the bad guy when you know your beefy bodyguards are right there with you to step in and do the rough stuff.
Posted by Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 3:37 AM
28: "security detail" s/b "sidekick"
"beefy bodyguards" s/b "plucky helpmeet"
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:40 AM