Comments on: Whoever Knows Fear Burns at the Corndog’s Touch!!; or, Confessions of a Comic Book Vegetarian.

By: Kemmysunshine

Kemmysunshine — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:12:11 +0000

I loved Grant’s Animal too and was overjoyed to find that someone else contemplated the “big question”.

Rationally speaking there is no one species more important than any other on this planet.
Step aside from personal emotional attachments and assumptions of species superiority for even just a second and the reality of this hits you like a sledghammer It’s not radical at all; it’s just a simple fact.

The difficult part of this is how you live with it after the realisation.
The hardest bit of all is other people’s complete inability to even grasp the basic concept of it. Their reaction is usually hostile (see above) or, as I see it. simply choosing to not want to try to understand because it’s frightening.

By: Night

Night — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:33:39 +0000

You’re a knob. Eat a steak.

By: roger

roger — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:18:02 +0000

My problem with Animal Man comes from what he side the next page of that comic: “why is more important a rat lab that a person?”. Hard words.

If I was ther I would have asked him: “If you have to choose between saving a rat or your daughter, what will you do?”. Sometimes Buddy seemed a little radical to me.

By: Maldoror

Maldoror — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:14:59 +0000

By no means embarrassing. More exacting, it is a ready display of the potential potency and prowess that the comic medium exhibits.

By: PrettyFakes » Blog Archive » The Spirit of ‘96.

PrettyFakes » Blog Archive » The Spirit of ‘96. — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:59:46 +0000

[...] “more-556”> This one dovetails with my recent post about how the comic book Animal Man compelled me to become a vegetarian. Go, vegan Spider-Man!! Kick that meat eater’s rear!! “Carnivorous anima [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:41:29 +0000

If you think becoming vegetarian after reading a comic book is slightly embrassaring, try this on for size: I gave up meat some ten years ago after watching The Simpson’s episode where Lisa turns vegetarian and Paul and Linda McCartney are guest stars. (You meat eaters probably remember it as the “It’s just a little air borne, it’s still good, it’s still good” episode.)

Like the Animal Man issue for Gorjus, that episode presented the topic to me in such as way that I couldn’t help but contemplate the moral ramifications of what I eat.

I think it really speaks to the power of pop culture products like comic books and cartoons that they were able to influence our lives, and the lives of all the thousands of animals who will note die because of our choice of diet, in such a profound way.

Great essay Gorjus.

By: PrettyFakes » Blog Archive » Candy Everybody Wants.

PrettyFakes » Blog Archive » Candy Everybody Wants. — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:46:40 +0000

[...] who killed his wife. Even at eight years old, I wanted to know Why Not? I told you how I became a vegetarian because of comics, and Professor Fury has detailed the role of comics in awakening in him the i [...]

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Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:31:52 +0000

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By: Mr. Mooch

Mr. Mooch — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:55:45 +0000

anyone notice the slight changes in Gorj’s look? last time he was a little “Archie” looking. this time a little more roundy-headed Charlie Brown looking. Hey Gorj, are the changes purposeful or just a matter of circumstance?

BTW, as much as i’ve never cared a bit about Man-Thing (and as much as i DID like Swamp Thing), he sure had a great ’slogan/saying’ associated w/ the character.

By: Jaxxie

Jaxxie — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:30:47 +0000

Er, I was about to say Buddy is kind of hot despite his unfortunate wardrobe choices – it WAS the 80s. Something about the sincerity and the perpetual S shape of his eyebrows.