Journalista’s Dirk Deppy interviewed:
What really makes me want to die? The way industry true-believers assume that comics not featuring capes and tights are seen as diversions that “hurt comics,” and that different and conflicting senses of aesthetics are some sort of personal attack. I realize that this contradicts the nonchalance that I affected in the last answer, but dammit, comics are more than a single genre and a single mentality, and in a better world, comics shops would reflect that. Kids buy manga hand over fist, but wouldn’t set foot in a comic-book shop on a dare, since such places are by and large stuffed with comics for 25/35-year-old men who’ve read Marvel and DC funnybooks for ten years or more and read like weird mixtures of The Super-Friends and The Sopranos. What galls me is the way the funnybook trade press treats all of this as the best of all possible worlds.
I can live with the New York Times’ occasional vacuousness, but if the American funnybook industry’s boosters all had one face, I’d keep punching it until someone called the cops and had me hauled away.
LOL! (and, of course, I couldn’t agree more)