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AICN COMICS SHOOT THE MESSENGER: DARK HORSE GOES TO COLLEGE! Q&@ w STEVE NILES on CITY OF DUST, WORKING w JOHN CARPENTER & MORE!

Shoot the heroin... by LordPorkington	Oct 20th, 2008 08:16:04 AM
Hey kids, it's a great Monday morning pick-me-up!
hahahah by unkempt_sock	Oct 20th, 2008 08:38:33 AM
DRUGS get it?
MACGRUBER! by Err	Oct 20th, 2008 08:45:44 AM
He can't donate anymore blood cause it's tainted with heroin. MACGRUBER!
I never thought you'd be a junkie by Snookeroo	Oct 20th, 2008 09:51:18 AM
because heroin is so passè. Dandy Warhols
New John Carpenter movie? by kwisatzhaderach	Oct 20th, 2008 10:05:33 AM
Yes!
Niles working with Carpenter? by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD	Oct 20th, 2008 10:06:49 AM
Don't waste your fucking time. Carpenter is a lost cause. Stay on track and give us a fucking Cal McDonald film! TOM FUCKING JANE!!
Niles shoudnt write Batman by the milf lover	Oct 20th, 2008 11:11:26 AM
because he sucks at it! I didnt read his other Bat-attempts, but Gotham By Midnight is just awful, I dropped it after #4 with the big stupid Bat-Robot. Utter crap!
Go Red Sox! by Psynapse	Oct 20th, 2008 01:11:48 PM
Home, that is.
Wow! Ain't it . .. . by Olsen Twins_Fan	Oct 20th, 2008 02:24:50 PM
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Why would anyone attack Niles' personal life? by WarpedElements	Oct 20th, 2008 05:29:53 PM
Yeesh ya'll must get into it here when I miss a week of comic reviews... Niles found me on myspace once. Sent him a fanboy response and I think it traumatized him. It was pretty amusing for a Monday. Nice guy. It's also why guys like me get asked to leave comic conventions.
Loved the interview by lokey2121	Oct 20th, 2008 07:42:42 PM
I really enjoyed City of Dust #1. I actually pre-ordered it after seeing it mentioned on here.
"I was there" therefore it was amazing. by ctsamurai	Oct 20th, 2008 10:21:38 PM
That's all nice and good, but I don't think this "crumbles" the comics are illegitimate argument at all. While it is nice that Dark Horse has made that kind of donation (which, decades from now WILL be worth more than a simple monetary donation) as you remarked, the place of comics in cultural studies has not been altered like some sort of revolution. It was nice, but not earth shaking.
I said it crumbled by about a foot. by vroom socko	Oct 21st, 2008 12:48:28 AM
Most of the time when the argument agains comics as capital A Art loses traction, it's by an inch or two. It's crumbled by a foot before: Maus winning the Pulitzer, Watchmen listed by TIME as one of the great novels of the 20th century, etc. But I'll be the first to admit, the remaining size of the anti-comic perception is about the size of a football field. Metaphorically speaking. This archive is still a very big deal, though.
I'm just not concerned with mainstream acceptance. by Joenathan	Oct 21st, 2008 08:36:29 AM
A. Its never going to happen. B. Its not worth my time to try to convince people that comics have more to them then just some smiling, silver age, four color, homo erotic, slugfest bullshit. I already know about it, if they don't, its because they are stupid, so fuck them. Besides, its not like they're going to rush out and start buying comic books. Books are ALREADY considered art and important and relevant to society and yet the majority of Americans sure as shit don't read those unless Oprah tells them to, so why bother? They're just going to wait for the movie anyway...
Comics: Art? by steverodgers	Oct 21st, 2008 11:11:31 AM
I never understood this burning desire to have comics accepted by the mainstream art world - or the world at large. If people like and appreciate them, wonderful - if they don’t, who cares? I think a case could be made at this point that more Americans know Alan Moore's name or Frank Millers name then they do Dana Schutz, Damien Hirst, or any number of current art stars - so it’s less that people don't care about comics as art, it’s that they don’t give a shit about art at all. Who is the last household name artist? Warhol? Maybe David Hockney - ask a co-worker to name a contemporary artist, see who they tell you, it’ll be Warhol and he is dead – I’m not sure what I am arguing, except maybe just agreeing with Joen that if people don’t like comics then fuck em - who cares - I don’t care about knitting but you don't see a bunch of old ladies bitching about how no one give knitting any love... Also I am pretty sure that LA MOCA had a Jack Kirby show recently, so it’s not like people who know what they are talking about are not talking about comics as art.

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