 Divided States Of Hysteria #3 $3.99 Quantity
VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W/A/CA) Howard Chaykin He's the most despised man in America...the colossal screw up who doomed New York City. In a last ditch attempt to hold on to his manhood, this cosmic loser assembles a quartet of serial murderers in a pathetic and desperate search for his own redemption. Fat chance. Date Available: 08/09/2017
BONUS REVIEW by Kevin Healy
 I don't care what you believe. I don't need you to believe what I believe. As long as you're not trying to take away the option for me to believe what I believe, we're good, even if I disagree with you. (Clearly, I'm right, right?) I think we need to start with that when talking about this title. I didn't like the first issue of this book. It had uninspired layouts and a deliberately repetitive structure. We're on issue three, and it still has both of those things. The newest thing it has it people who HATE it, people who feel it shouldn't be allowed to be read by anyone, people who are threatened by the existence of a thing they don't like (or think they don't like because they haven't actually read it themselves). Given that Howard Chaykin is (was? now isn't because of the last 2 months?) a raging liberal, and its the left that's been going after him, this is a confusing situation. It now forces this to be a must read book. Did you know that there's a list that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund keeps of banned books? Banned here is locally, not nationally. These are books that might very well be at your home, at your local library, and certainly at your local comic shop? Do you know that people used to be outraged by the suppression of ideas in art? Its true. Now we have many, too many by my count, who react to every piece of outrage not with discussion, but with an effort to make that 'thing' they're angry about unavailable to anyone instead of voting with their dollars or with their ability to discuss their position. There's an excellent essay in the back of the book by Chaykin about what this reaction to a comic book has meant to him personally and professionally. I'd recommend it to anyone who has complained about this book w/out actually reading it. Whatever you believe, the perfect is the enemy of the good. I wish this hubbub was over a better book. I'm concerned about what it might mean for better books going forward. I give it 6 out of 10 Grahams VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W/A/CA) Howard Chaykin He's the most despised man in America...the colossal screw up who doomed New York City. In a last ditch attempt to hold on to his manhood, this cosmic loser assembles a quartet of serial murderers in a pathetic and desperate search for his own redemption. Fat chance. Date Available: 08/09/2017
BONUS REVIEW by Kevin Healy
I don't care what you believe. I don't need you to believe what I believe. As long as you're not trying to take away the option for me to believe what I believe, we're good, even if I disagree with you. (Clearly, I'm right, right?) I think we need to start with that when talking about this title. I didn't like the first issue of this book. It had uninspired layouts and a deliberately repetitive structure. We're on issue three, and it still has both of those things. The newest thing it has it people who HATE it, people who feel it shouldn't be allowed to be read by anyone, people who are threatened by the existence of a thing they don't like (or think they don't like because they haven't actually read it themselves). Given that Howard Chaykin is (was? now isn't because of the last 2 months?) a raging liberal, and its the left that's been going after him, this is a confusing situation. It now forces this to be a must read book. Did you know that there's a list that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund keeps of banned books? Banned here is locally, not nationally. These are books that might very well be at your home, at your local library, and certainly at your local comic shop? Do you know that people used to be outraged by the suppression of ideas in art? Its true. Now we have many, too many by my count, who react to every piece of outrage not with discussion, but with an effort to make that 'thing' they're angry about unavailable to anyone instead of voting with their dollars or with their ability to discuss their position. There's an excellent essay in the back of the book by Chaykin about what this reaction to a comic book has meant to him personally and professionally. I'd recommend it to anyone who has complained about this book w/out actually reading it. Whatever you believe, the perfect is the enemy of the good. I wish this hubbub was over a better book. I'm concerned about what it might mean for better books going forward. I give it 6 out of 10 Grahams |
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