Talking Points

digresssmlOriginally published December 16, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1100

A sort of morbid incredulity has settled, for the moment, over bleeding-heart liberals such as my humble self. Even a bit of distant black humor rears its head. For instance, I was telling a group of comics fans about an upcoming development in Marvel’s futuristic “2099” line of books. I said, “Doom takes over America.” And the immediate response I got was, “Didn’t that just happen?”