The Guns of Auguste Comments

by: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:11:17 +0000

Love the use of the passive voice in “if it were traced”…

This would be by the same people swearing blind that Iraq had chemicals and nukes and lion s and tigers, oh my?

by: teh l4m3

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:25:40 +0000

Not nearly as great as the possibility of Dick Cheney ingesting an entire litter of live kittens during dinner tonight.

by: Chuckles

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:31:08 +0000

Slightly better than the odds of GWB resigning?

by: Thers

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:41:11 +0000

Oy, I’ve been through something like this — I can relate to the hate. Yo!

Thought you handled it well, Auguste.

by: Amanda Marcotte

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:19:51 +0000

Or that time you woke up working the deep fryer at McDonald’s and discovered you were having an affair with the cashier.

by: JoeC

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:35:47 +0000

Wow…that’s so fitting. And I thought the guy had died a long time ago, but Twain’s obviously still around, and still more lucid than most. He must be over 150 by now!

by: karpad

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:16:10 +0000

ahem. that should have ended with

I actually work in a comic shop. I make a habit of reading pretty much everything we get in, and actually pay for owning my own copy of alot of it. so I generally have a high opinion of most current work. although of course I have my pet peeves. but “all the new stuff sucks” is generally not accurate

by: karpad

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:12:14 +0000

ew, chuckles. ew. Frank Miller is a disgusting hack. 300 is possibly the ONLY good thing he’s ever written. The man is utterly incapible of writing a female character that is not a whore.

As if I needed evidence for my opinions, look at Dark Knight Strikes Again. the man had a DECADE to write that thing, and it was still ugly as sin, poorly scripted, and full of terrible dialogue.

yes yes, we owe him a debt, DKR was a landmark book that allowed comic books to mature into an art form the best of it currently is. that does not make DKR good by any standard, the same way Captain America Comics #3 is a landmark for being Stan Lee’s first published work. it’s still childish and campy and full of poor art with skewed perspective. Miller AND his forthcoming “Holy Terror, Batman!” with 68 pages of his Self-Insert Batman beating up Osama Bin Laden can all die in a fire.

FWIW, 52 has actually been remarkably good. It has a few things going for it: Grant Morrison, who is insane but a fantastic writer, has taken a major lead. It’s had relatively little filler, and actually progresses issue to issue. and when a single issue is somewhat disappointing, the weekly schedule means they’ll pick up and bing you something better a few days later, instead of waiting TWO TO THREE MONTHS for Civil War.

I actually work in a comic shop. I make a habit of reading pretty much everything we get in, and actually pay for owning my own copy of alot of it.

by: mdhåtter

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:54:01 +0000

outspoken women DO hear that a lot, and pedantic middle aged white men don’t hear it enough.

Donahue’s avocation is putting up a snit at the behest of his benefactors until someone gets fired, an avocation at which HE IS accomplished and about which he shows no modesty.

Heads Up: Next months article on his house in “better greenhouses and aviaries” should be riveting - assuming it survives the paintball match he’s started.

by: The Rev. Jenner J. Hull

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:21:37 +0000

If only we could all sound like Cash…. Or Nick Cave… Or Leonard Cohen…

Or, if there was a God and He was merciful, Barry White…