Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Begging the question: At Silver Bullet Comic Books, "The Panel" turns to what I thought was a rhetorical question: "Is there such a thing as a bad comic book?" The distinguished panel answers anyway, but it's creator Gary Spencer Millidge who's the first to recognize a bad question when he sees it:

"Is this a serious question? Good lord, of course there is such thing as a bad comic book! The whole history of the industry is full of bad comic books. Terrible, awful comic books. The vast majority of comics produced are weak in some, if not all departments. That’s not to say that you couldn’t find one tiny redeeming feature somewhere in any given book, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s worth 20 minutes of your life."