Why comics?
I like words.
And I like pictures.
Words AND pictures are even better.
"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
Of course, ninety percent of comics are garbage. But ninety percent of anything is garbage that's Sturgeon's law: If by "garbage" we mean not worth spending your time on. But some comics are very special, and that's what this web site is about.
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.
How it all began
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 my collection at the time:
Enter The Story, and comics
Other pages
I'll probably add other pages from time to time. I hope you find something of interest.
