The Noir Hero Is A Knight In

Mighty Cultures Never - Are Almost Never Conquered. They Crumble From Within. And Frankly, I Think That A Lot Of Americans Are Acting Like Spoiled Brats Because Everything That Isn't Working Out Perfectly Every Time.

Hello, I'm Shellie's New Boyfriend And I'm Out Of My Mind. If You So Much As Talk To Her Or Even Think Her Name, I'll Cut You In Ways That'll Make You Useless To A Woman.

She Doesn't Quite Chop His Head Off. She Makes A Pez Dispenser Out Of Him.

I Grew Up On The Crime Stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, And Noir Movies Like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I First Showed Up In New York To Write Comics Back In The Late 1970s, I Came With A Bunch Of Crime Stories But Everybody Just Wanted Men In Tights.

"comic Book" Has Come To Mean A Specific Genre, Not A Story Form, In People's Minds. So Someone Will Call Die Hard "a Comic-book Movie," When It Has Nothing To Do With Comic Books. I'd Rather Have Comics Be The Vehicle By Which Stories Are Told.