There is, in fact, precedent here - the homebrew movement. I grew up in a house where beer kits were used to brew really, really cheap bitter at a fraction of the cost in shops. I’ve known neighbours and relatives who’ve made wine from wild berries and gooseberries. I’ve even got a book with recipes for making wine…

Pretty sure Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware never “cut their teeth” on mainstream comics.

Go away.

It sounds like a blind donkey trying to get its vision back by repeatedly poking itself in the eyes.

After chastising Charlie for saying “hell yeah,”

This is, of course, as much about a crisis of storytelling values as it is economics.

While there should always be a place for prestige and specialised material, most comics should be fun, cheap and accessible. They are, after all, the gateway to the really interesting comics. I wouldn’t have discovered Maus or underground comics, or indeed Manga and even more obscure stuff, if I hadn’t started reading…

Quality has a quantity all of its own. Maybe catering for ‘the audience’ rather than the ‘fans’ might help? Perhaps, just perhaps, comics of the kind Marvel/DC produce are meant to be mass entertainment, not something aimed at a canon-obsessed nerd? Maybe sites like this, and discussions like the one we’re having are…

Who XIII is the Brexit of fandom - it is ‘The Will of The People’, the very epitome of There Is No Alternative, the new consensus, the sacred cow that must not be grilled...

I wonder what an Incredibles/Marshall Law crossover would be like...

Nah, all that’s needed is a little quality control.

A modest proposal - why don’t all the New York-based news sites take on at least one jilted NY Times copy editor? Maybe the Web is the best place to preserve this vital art cum science. Newspapers certainly aren’t, not any more.

Before you know it, everyone is breaking from stress and your Jester is a nymphomaniac

It’s Captain Moose-Shagger you’ve got to look out for.

Once again, ‘Ninja Death Bastard’ is criminally overlooked.

If you can’t be trusted to work with lasers, radioactive or biologically hazardous materials, or be able to pass the mental and physical health requirements to fly a jumbo jet, you shouldn’t be allowed a gun.

I’m not the total berk hiding behind whatever they can dredge off Imgur at short notice.

Alliterator had better not confuse his wanking sock with his sockpuppet, because otherwise you’re in big trouble.

And lo, the memes remained as crap as ever.

And so a truly fucked up love story was born: