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The textbook lowbrow dismissal. Why even bother commenting? Disagree if you're going to disagree; that's a contribution.


>The textbook lowbrow dismissal

Now that's just parphrasing how I described the article - only I tied it to specifics more, and also revealed something interesting: that such a denunciation is so cliche, that I knew who the artist would be just from reading the title (which is true, I did guess it correctly and then opened it and saw that I had called it).


Your rebuttal here is that you saw a "facile" takedown of a comics author and thought "this can only be Frank Miller, no other comics author ever engenders facile takedowns"? I'm skeptical.


I too guessed it was Frank Miller. It's a pretty common opinion and has been for some time.


It said "made me love comics" so I immediately thought "so that was someome prominent in the past" and then "taught me to have them" meant "ok, so he's controversial enough to warrant a 'I was triggered when I understood those comics/his personal ideas' article" - put two and two together and bingo.

If it said the same about a sci-fi author, I'd have guessed someone like Heinlein (or maybe Asimov).




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