Ode to comics

Yet another of the guest writers (aka unpaid subsitutes) on Andrew Sullivan has published an ode to comic books.

As someone whose entire early knowledge of history and virtually everything else came from comic books, especially things like Classics Illustrated, comics based on movies like "The Conqueror," and "El Cid," and, of course, every issue of every war comic I could find, not to mention the original "Thor," I have to agree.

Once I even wanted to be a comic book illustrator, like Russ Heath, Joe Kubert, Russ Manning, or Sam Glanzman.

Instead I became a medieval historian. What a come down.