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April 29, 2012 5:16 pm my old memory is foggy but i'm pretty sure in your writing 101 class they also taught that, in non-fiction work, facts should be backed up with foot noted sources or primary research. but as I say, i'm old, "news" used to also come from research and reported facts not someone pundits opinion on 24 hour repeated cycles.* *authors note: as this sentence has no supporting research please construe only as the opinon of this author and not facts handed down from the word of God.

February 5, 2012 6:15 pm @joshua "Doctrine of Fair Use" rulings on the ol First Amendment allows for free "political" speech. Parody is seen as political speech. Its the same reason SNL may mock companies or for-profit newspapers may show photos of Coke Cans or Mickey Mouse. However by definition parody needs to be commenting on the actions or personality of the individual. Each actor has a "right to publicity" so the boys couldn't put the actors face on a t-shirt or print and sell them, even with their "witty" remarks attached. The comments on the column are easily seen as parody. However if the actor had their own blog where they post their comments in a similar style each week, the actor could sue over a "right of publicity" as there would be confusion in the marketplace, interferring with the actor's ability to spread (and commodify) their own message. but as with any lawsuit, one must ask "what are their damages"? and with any comment one must ask "could it have been funnier"?

February 4, 2012 4:31 am I find it misleading to analyze decades old contracts without also analyzing the context and culture they were drafted in. The words and language of the contract may appear to our modern eyes and context to appear clear cut, but at the time a creator may have reasonible belief that a phrase meant somrthing entirely different. ie: the words told to Moore may have been "you'll get the rights to this work in a year" and due to the cultural expectations at that time, the words in the contract may have been drafted to enable that. (few precedents of comics being reprinted beyond that time) Both parties drafted the contract in good faith. However, once the popularity/money came into it DC had the option of honoring the concept of the contract or to use the language in the contract to benefit themselves (and I'm sure in DC's minds at the time Moore as well) This has been Moore's argument in many an old interview. The "get over it Alan you signed a bad contract" seems a rather simplistic breakdown of the situation...if the few bits of info released are to be believed

February 4, 2012 3:42 am @ wally I took Moore's comments in the context of his many past interviews and his belief that comics should be considered a valid art form same as literature. Not so much inserting himself but attempting to correlate all comics with literature (with a shorthand phrase) If you spent your life going around trying to tell everyone how comics are an equal art form and then DC announces this...well its possible to see why one might get upset or at least dissapointed.

January 27, 2012 9:14 am winter soldier #4 = i think this one is an Erte print or someone similar.

January 27, 2012 12:59 am trying to justify the ol mfa once again here's my best guesses: Age of Apocalapse #2= ? some amalgam of a Middle Egyptian painting / hieroglyphics ? Amazing Spider-Man #683= ? Saul Bass inspired ? Avengers #25= Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze "Washington Crossing the Delaware" Avengers Assemble #2= Claude Monet Pick any variation of "Rouen Cathedral" Daredevil #11= after Al Hirschfeld Fantastic Four #605= after Winsor Mccay Little Nemo Incredible Hulk #7= Winnie the Pooh "Stuck In Rabbits House" (E.H. Shepard?) Invincible Iron Man #515= ?some Easter Island thing I'm unaware of? Secret Avengers #26= Toulouse-lautrec Moulin Rouge: La Goulue lithograph Uncanny X-Force #24= Georges Seurat "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" X-Men #27= sculpture garden containing" Rodin's "The Thinker", Michaelangelo's "David" and Brancusi "Bird in Space" Winter Soldier #4= ? (know this one but am blanking)? Wolverine #304= ? Wolverine & The X-Men #9= after Egon Schiele X-men #27= ?uhm a japanese wood block print ? i think the ifanboy posters here got most of them already anyway...but there's the ones off the top:

January 26, 2012 11:58 pm Iron man is after Brancusi (Constantin) he did many that look very similar to this one...I think the one here in LA at the Norton Simon Museum is titled "Bird In Space"

January 15, 2012 7:33 pm "amd" what does Wolverine have against conjunctions?

December 28, 2011 9:40 pm Ron- re:the Good Wife don't buy. get a library card. its available at SF library system: http://sflib1.sfpl.org/search~S1?/Xgood+wife&searchscope=1&SORT=D/Xgood+wife&searchscope=1&SORT=D&SUBKEY=good+wife/1%2C257%2C257%2CB/frameset&FF=Xgood+wife&searchscope=1&SORT=D&2%2C2%2C i am a lame linker. enjoy it. as much as i am about to enjoy my thai food.

December 17, 2011 3:18 am Serendipity. Week ago to the day had a conversation about "movies you haven't seen but everyone would assume that you had seen" We are not talking about the "Classics" that "EVERYONE" should see or make these lists. But rather the ones that your friends or acquaintances knowing what movies you like and talk about; what movies would they just assume that you have seen but you actually haven't. For me it was David Lynch's "Eraserhead" and Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby" (which I just watched last week, which sparked the conversation). For comics, if i pretend I had any friends who knew nor cared about them or me it would be uhhmmm...Transmet or 100 Bullets (beyond first trade)...which I really blame LA libraries for not stocking complete sets for me not even attmepting to rectify. Let's just have a few more potholes and a couple less street lights so I can read them...where are our priorities America?