A Moment of Comics

A critic for The Comics Journal was hard on this page from Top Ten: The Forty-Niners because they pointed out how no Nazi-run paper would run a headline like "Nazis Run USA." Nowadays I'm not so sure. From the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and drawn by Gene Ha.

A Moment of Comics

I'm in the middle of  reviewing a fantasy comic that reminds me of Smax, the fantasy send up by writer Alan Moore and artist Zander Cannon, who got to let loose after working for so long with Gene Ha's pencils on Top Ten (also written by Moore and featuring Smax). This page is from Smax #3 from Wildstorm/Americas Best Comics. "How...many...dwarves?" always cracks me up.

A Moment of Comics

Last week during Thanksgiving with my family, someone recommended investing in AI. This Jack B. Quick story from Tomorrow Stories Special #1 by Alan Moore and Kevin Nowlan still has my favorite line on the subject. "[W]hy go lookin' for artificial intelligence when we already have genuine stupidity?" Today, a story where people convince themselves to obey an artificial being of questionable intelligence they have to carry around in a wheelbarrow doesn't seem as farfetched.