The best reason to troll the quarter bin is that sometimes, you just can't freakin' believe what you end up reading. For example, check out Shazam! #28, 1977. Billy Batson is in Boston, and...well, just read it:
Thank you, Billy Batson, for using the wisdom of Solomon to explain the complex, frustrating and often violent issues of desegregating Boston schools!! (and yes, that was 100% of what was in the comic book as relates to the issue...)
And thank you, E. Nelson Bridwell and Kurt Schaffenberger, for presenting complex socio-political phenomena in a children's comic with no context or discussion of actual issues whatsoever!!
This is going to be a continuing series, kids. See Billy Batson discuss capital punishment!! Watch Billy Batson take on cloning and stem cells!! See Billy Batson deal with Identity Crisis!!
And that's all just in one issue...
Thank you, Billy Batson, for using the wisdom of Solomon to explain the complex, frustrating and often violent issues of desegregating Boston schools!! (and yes, that was 100% of what was in the comic book as relates to the issue...)And thank you, E. Nelson Bridwell and Kurt Schaffenberger, for presenting complex socio-political phenomena in a children's comic with no context or discussion of actual issues whatsoever!!
This is going to be a continuing series, kids. See Billy Batson discuss capital punishment!! Watch Billy Batson take on cloning and stem cells!! See Billy Batson deal with Identity Crisis!!
And that's all just in one issue...
The spelling of 'busing' has always bothered me. Shouldn't it be 'bussing'? We have to change 'picnic' to 'picnicking' for its noun-verb transformation for Pete's sake.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of noun-verb transformations, how the hell did scrapbook become a verb? Scrapbooking sounds like something out of Idiocracy. I guess it has electrolytes or something.
So let me get this straight...you're holding a kid by the arm, lightning flashes and thunder roars...and you don't look up? Isn't that usually where lightning comes from? Boy, Billy had some dumb neighbors.
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