When you're right 52% of the time, you're wrong 48% of the time.

Man.  Michael Jackson really did a number on this guy.

I don't believe that Hank and Marie have read that many books between them.

Yeah, all he did was have his goon crack some union skulls.  What's the biggie?

I like them Indigo Girls.

The best part of this story is that the LEDE is that Kanye had to pose for pictures with these peasants and the FILLER is that he took $3m from some horrible dictator.

@avclub-b3e157f795f95a0eeddae30fc92ebd3d:disqus I hope someday to have enough money someday to say "I don't care about money" because that is definitely something only well-off people say!

Trent loves his Meathead fan.

@LetoII:disqus Not that I want to intrude on your comforting fantasies about how money does not impact happiness, but you are aware that the Wall Street Journal REPORTING on a study does not mean that it COMMISSIONED that study, right?

Yeah, fuck science!
http://www.marketwatch.com/…

I break out the Fragile every once in a while and, while I love the production, on the lyrics I find myself thinking "quit being such a fucking baby, Trent" quite a lot.  Not unlike the experience I have listening to Kanye West, for that matter.

Loved, still love, Kid A.  It's a neurotic masterpiece.  For a certain kind of agitated mind, Ok computer can never measure up to Kid A's nervous, jittery landscape.  For some reason, Amnesiac is a totally different experience for me, even though the songs were from the same sessions as Kid A.

Still tortured?  With his millions of dollars, beach-ready body and a new family?  Mo money, mo problems, I guess.

Robert Blanchon did  the Mashed Potatoes sample off of Ill Communication, right?

He writes like a high school junior who gets Bs in english comp.

Dot com?

Your analogy is pretty revealing.  Just as literature is more than adventure yarns, comics is a lot more than superhero comics.  If you had phrased your question as "who made better superhero comics" your point would be unassailable. 

That was my point, not the essayist's.  And I wasn't saying those things to denigrate Kirby but to try to explain why he had so much resonance with his audience.  I agree; they're NOT easy things to do, especially when you're helping to invent a whole new style.

Okay, I googled both of those terms.  Lots of emphasis on detail and stately poses.  None of it reminds me of Kirby.  Part of Kirby's appeal is that he knew that too much emphasis on detail took away from his kineticism.  He wants your eye to move quickly, to convey the motion of the scene.  Kirby's drawings are like…

My point was that simplicity, force and motion were symbolic of American values, not that they originated in America, which is just silly.  But seriously, please link to these Renaissance drawings you refer to.