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From Rich Johnston's gossip column, I thought this should have its own thread:

Marvel's upcoming "Combat Zone: True Tales from GI's in Iraq." Not only has this book been at Marvel for a while, but a number of artists have been approached, started on the book and then left when it's true nature was revealed.

While a number of Marvel's previous titles involving war and terrorism have tried to explore issues from different perspectives, reports I've had are that this is not the case here. America is the One True Hope, all who oppose her or disagree with her current thinking are evil scum, and the world would be better off without them. And thank the Lord we have these plucky brave soldiers to do her bidding.

And certainly the resume of Karl Zinsmeister, credited as the "embedded correspondent" writing this with Ron Marz, makes for interesting reading.

He's editor-in-chief of the American Enterprise Magazine, the in-house magazine of "The American Enterprise Institute" (AEI). The AEI is a neo-conservative think tank, with strong ties to the oil industry and the White House, and one of the most important architects of President Bush's current foreign policy. Famous members include Richard Perle, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, ExxonMobile's CEO Lee Raymond and the Vice-President's wife Lynne Cheney.

Also, the AEI gave office space to the "Project for a New American Century," an even more conservative think tank with Vice President Dick Cheney and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz on it's roster. Furthermore, the PNAC and the AEI work closely together.

Who better to write a touching, poignant and thruthful version of the current state of affairs in Iraq?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ron Marz? Gag me with a refrigerator!

― Huk-L, Monday, 8 November 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Marvel are going to be critically lynched for this one. However I predict sales so immense that DC do their own project entitled "Green Lantern: Emerald Christ".

― Vic Fluro, Monday, 8 November 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

THE PASSION OF THE GRODD

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1448/400/1448_4_046.jpg

― Huk-L, Monday, 8 November 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hal's lantern is blue.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I did a comics.org search for "God" as character, and found this:
http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=28594

Note the character appearances for the Spectre story! This is almost as good as Don Rickles!

― Huk-L, Monday, 8 November 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

That poor kid with the double-page pin-up of Green Lantern. I had a Scott Baio poster up in my room because it came free with my book order from Scholastic Book Club and it seemed ridiculous to throw a poster away, but it was years before I realized that was a teensy bit gay.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was 8 or 9 or maybe younger, I won a poster of some woman in a bikini at one of those balloons & darts games at the fair. I traded it in for a poster of Eddie Murphy in a half-unzipped skintight wetsuit because I liked Beverly Hills Cop. The carny laughed at me and though I didn't know what there was to be ashamed about, I was. Around age 12, I noticed that Eddie Murphy's nutsack was quite plainly outlined and took the poster down.
But pre-puberty, I had no interest in a poster of a girl, ick!

― Huk-L, Monday, 8 November 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Evil carny!

I think I still had Scott Baio up when I put Samantha Fox up. God knows what my mother thought.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

That it was too early to rule anything out?

― Huk-l, Monday, 8 November 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was very young -- like six, seven -- we had a lengthy Mom-initiated conversation about "what girls do and what boys do" (subtext: stop acting like a girl) because I'd bought a box of costume jewelry at a yard sale and was playing with it. I kept explaining I was using it as PIRATE TREASURE that the Revolutionary War soldiers had buried in our backyard!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Off-topic: I would love the long lost hidden treasure in the upcoming feature film National Treasure to be a box of costume jewelry.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was 6, my first-grade teacher (fresh out of school) called a parent/teacher interview because she was worried that I was being abused, or at the very least that I had dire self-image problems as in all of my drawings of myself I was dressed entirely in black.
"Oh, that's just because he wants to be a Jedi Knight, like Luke Skywalker."
The self-image issues didn't start until I noticed Eddie Murphy's nutsack calling to me in the middle of a moonlit night.

― Huk-L, Monday, 8 November 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuk ... come scratch me, otay? ... I'm itchy, dambit! ... goony goo goo ...

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not off-topic at all! Nicholas Cage is practically Scott Baio anyway.

re: the thread opener, I take anything Rich says with a nugget of salt.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

From Iraq war propaganda to talking testes in 16 posts. I love the internet.

x-post - damn it, Tep, stop trying to stay on topic!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

My fingers slipped! BACK TO THE BALLS!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe when I get home, I'll see if I can img ggl that Eddie Murphy image. There's no way I'm looking for "Eddie Murphy + wetsuit" at work.

― Huk-L, Monday, 8 November 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

There's no way I'm looking at an image you're going to get from Googling "Eddie Murphy + wetsuit".

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Your search - eddie murphy wetsuit - did not match any documents.

Your search - eddie murphy nutsack - did not match any documents.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Your search - "eddie murphy" beefcake - did not match any documents.

― Huk-L, Monday, 8 November 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://vclips.com/postersfast/images/posters/large/1662243992.jpg

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(I know that's not it, or you'd be like 15)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Your search - "eddie murphy" "whoomp there it is" - did not match any documents.

(not that I tried - I'd rather not tempt fate)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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