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Garth’s Heroes

“I love comic books. And I will fight anyone who has a problem with that.”
- Stewart Lee

Preacher’s Jesse Custer is confronted by his nemesis, the sadistic Jody.
Preacher’s Jesse Custer is confronted by his nemesis, the sadistic Jody.

My last few articles around here have been somewhat aggressive and negative on the subject of comics, whether it be unkindly describing the online fans of Wonder Woman as mentally backwards manchildren or people who play Arkham City as functionally illiterate.

It was pointed out to me that I might have given the impression I somehow consider myself above comics, when in fact nothing could be further from the truth. I am, of course, an enormous nerd, and an exponent of Stewart Lee’s aforementioned advocation of them/violent threat. So I wanted to do that undertake that very rare blogging task and write about something that I actually think is decent. Read more