First let's get Sturgeon's law out of the way. Ninety percent of comics are garbage. But ninety percent of anything is garbage. If by garbage we mean ordinary, mundane, nothing special. But a few of them are very special, and that's what this web site is about.
Actually, if ALL comics were garbage, I would still be a fan of the THEORY of comics: I like words. And I like pictures. Words AND pictures are even better. Newspapers have words and pictures, but are created too quickly to be well designed. TV also has words and pictures, but is too expensive to do well for niche topics. Comics are the perfect balance.
"When aliens land here, or when we land on another planet, we are going to communicate with pictures, illustrated stories, comic books." - Jim Steranko, quoted in Rolling Stone magazine, 1971
The Badtime Bedtime Books:
a new classic novel every week.
These were the first comics I ever read. Every week an amazing universe was tucked away inside an ordinary comic. For a young child this was truly mind expanding stuff.
Superhero science;
Some people say that superhero comics can never make logical sense. I say those people lack imagination.
The Campaign for Real Time:
The best stories are believable. And the easiest way to make stories believable is to set them in real time.
Lockjaw:
The greatest characters let you see the world in a fundamentally different way.
So Lockjaw is the greatest supehero ever.
The greatest comics ever made:
Comics cost money. They exist in competition with other forms of entertainment. Some comics give you more for your dollar, other comics give you less.
Many years ago, before computer games ruled the world, 'Enter The Story' was going to be a series of comic books. This page is about comics. This is me, aged 16, with some of my comics:
EnterTheStory,
and comics
Other pages
I'll probably add other pages from time to time. I hope you find something of interest.
