blog.wired.com — Marvel Comics is swimming in adaptations these days, and it's not being stingy with the graphics, either. Underwire landed a few panels of eye candy from its latest revision, The Stand: Captain Trips, for your viewing pleasure.
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prolianceSep 16, 2008
I am a huge fan of Stephen King's books. But as former military, I have stopped giving him my money after he implied the the military is the place for stupid people who can't read. ("...the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq") Feel free to be against the war in Iraq, but insult me, my family, my friends and the people who make this country great, and you lose me as a fan.I know, its my loss and not his. But its also my money, and I decide who gets it.BTW, the military happens to be better educated than the average population, and come from a comparably wealthy background. So what was his point if it wasn't meant to be insulting?<a class="user" href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/cda05-08_t1.gif">http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/ ...</a>
Closed AccountSep 16, 2008
Is it just me or is the artwork in The Dark Tower comic much better? Bango Skank was here...........................
Closed AccountSep 16, 2008
did he really say that? link pls.
diggopolisSep 17, 2008
Now this I will have to see!
vijoeSep 17, 2008
The point is, since you ask, is the point made by many other commentators, most of them connected by the fact that they are products of the Vietnam era. King and others his age were steeped in a military that was constructed by draft; a military that the privileged by and large opted out of (take our President and Vice President for instance). Too many people consider the military what it once was, a place you were forced to go when your education (i.e., college deferment) was insufficient.So let's say he's wrong. So what. He's a guy. He's a yarn-spinner, that's all, not the arbiter of all that is good and proper for people to believe here and forever after, say thankee. I think to consider him to be 'insulting,' is to engage in the thin-skinned emotional brinksmanship that makes our country so divisive.Relax. Enjoy a good book.
puskunkSep 17, 2008
I love The Stand, can't wait for this.