![]() ![]() So do theologians (normally, in far worse ways). ![]() ![]() But whereas a Jewish Messiah born out of wedlock to a virgin (talk about gender-bending–what’s his chromosomal alignment anyway?) came to kick evil booty by taking it on the chin, these two dairy products are decidedly all about giving it the old ‘what for’ across the chin. If Milk & Cheese has anything in common with Christian theology (deities forbid) it’s that they both think we’re deserving of death. In those glorious back and white pages it retold the death of a thousand hippies, yuppies, skins, gutter punks, grunge-chumps, the rich, the poor, and everyone in between. Little did I know, however, that a tidal wave of pure writing excrement would quickly infiltrate the comic book scene in the 90’s leaving me stranded amidst a sea or shoddy artists ‘writing’ even shoddier stories.Īs fortune would have it, in 1993, like a bodhisattva from the comic book heavens, I discovered my first Milk & Cheese comic book. Thanks to my good friend, Henry Kivett, AKA, ‘Better-at-it’, for loaning me his comic stash during art class as I was immediately hooked. It was the final issue of the “Death in the Family” storyline where readers voted to kill Robin (the ‘Jason Todd’ Robin). But since it is the week of HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC, and since this is my blog (thanks kind people at The Other Journal for allowing me to soil your site with random diatribes), I can do what I want. Pre-script fair warning: this is not your typical Amish Jihadist post–whatever that may be (making fun of pagan Christians, I guess). ![]()
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