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Craig Stephen Tower
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Didn't say impossible; just said tougher.

If by "support Trump" you mean "argue about THE REVENANT", and by "shadow-net", you mean "my Facebook feed"… pretty much.

Tougher to milk 'em, though.

Well, we all know the only promises he'll actually keep involve the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. Everything else, he'll throw under the bus.
I can see him going down a list and going "well, I'm NOT going to stop outsourcing jobs, because that's too profitable… ah, hell, I'll just let the base

These pretzels are making me thirsty! THAT'S why I yelled out racial slurs in my stand-up act!

Well I guess the treatment of the native inhabitants doesn't count, because they weren't even a minority when the Pilgrims got here!

Different director; that was Don Coscarelli, of PHANTASM and JOHN DIES AT THE END fame.(Coscarelli also adapted Lansdale's ENCOUNTER ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD for the "Masters Of Horror" tv series)

Don't miss the Jonah Hex comics he did with Tim Truman; a true meeting of minds. (that character deserved so much better than what Hollywood did to him)

Yes… but those are way at the bottom of the barrel; the equivalent of the high-profile, critically acclaimed VALENTINA would be something like LOST GIRLS… or as most people call it, "that porn book Alan Moore does on the side with his wife".
More to the point: when adult material did arrive in America, it was

It's ironic that the puritanical streak that made American comics resist "adult" material eventually resulted in the need to JUSTIFY it by adding better writing.

As Steven Grant noted, it is a genre that absorbs other genres and sucks them dry.

I've read it, and I know what you mean… but that little mask gets fanboys who wouldn't go near that sort of thing otherwise to convince themselves that it's a "real" comic. (It's crossed over with Batman, even!)

What else was EC?

Grendel's "passing" for a superhero book.

Here's the thing: the most "grim and gritty" comics of the 1980s weren't superheroes from The Big Two; they were sci-fi and action comics from the "alternative" publishers.
Guys like Howard Chaykin and Tim Truman wanted to do more "adult" versions of the stuff they grew up on… and the first thing they did was ditch

He's supposed to be playing The Invisible Man next.
He'll probably want to wear make-up for THAT, too!