After lunch yesterday a coworker was surprised to find a Wheat Penny in his change. As we discussed the penny we realized that we hadn’t seen one in quite some time. Today when I bought coffee on the way in to the office (across town from where we had lunch yesterday) I noticed that I [...]
I’ve always been into comics, predominantly DC comics, as far back as I can remember. I’m still upset with my mother for trashing a stack of Silver Age “World’s Finest” comics that I had held onto from the mid-70s. But I completely missed “Watchmen” when it came out.
Hang with me till the end, because I do make a point, eventually. We Americans live in a historic age. My grandparents, even my parents, grew up in an age when the idea of an African-American President of the United States would have been considered ridiculous. When writers wanted to drive home the strangeness of [...]



