Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II

Alan Davis and Mike Farmer depict a typically antagonistic Judge Dredd and Batman, from the UKCAC 88 booklet. (Note how Dredd is standing on Wayne’s right foot. He’s a born troublemaker, that one.)

“I think it would have been unethical or immoral for us not to do everything we could in order to protect the nation against further attacks like what happened on 9/11…”

 Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, on America’s post 9/11 use of torture

“Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British Army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren who have fallen into their hands … Provide everything necessary for them on the road.”

George Washington’s orders following the capture of 1000 Hessians at the Battle of Trenton

(Panel by Rick Remender, John Romita, Klaus Janson et al, from ‘Captain America’ #1, 2012)

Gilbert Hernandez’s homage to Jack Kirby, from 1986’s Amazing Heroes #100.

“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”

 John Meynard Keynes

“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life”

 Pasternak

(Page by Arthur Suydam in homage to George Perez’s cover to 1995’s Crisis On Infinite Earths #7, as appeared in a slightly-edited form in Wizard #189, 2007.)

Shane O’Dwyer’s Munch-homaging take on The Joker, from the cover of 1990’s Ark #32.

“You can’t say that civilisation don’t advance, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”

Will Rogers

“To the United States, a drone strike seems to have very little risk and very little pain. At the receiving end, it feels like war.”

Retired General Stanley McChrystal

(Panels by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Joe Sinnott et al, from “Dantastic Four” #85, 1969)

Jaime Hernandez’s joyful work adorns this advert for the second issue of “Love And Rockets”. (From 1983’s Amazing Heroes #29.)

Bryan Talbot’s Luther Arkwright, in this splendid contribution to the UKCAC 88 booklet.

“If the world were full of the self-seeking individuals found in economics textbooks, it would grind to a halt because we would be spending most of our time cheating, trying to catch the cheaters, and punishing the caught. The world works as it does only because people are not the totally self seeking agents that free-market economics believes them to be. We need to design an economic system that, while acknowledging that people are often selfish, exploits other human motives to the full and gets the best out of people. The likelihood is that, if we assume the worst about people, we will get the worst out of them.”

Ha-Joon Chang

(Panels by Bob Brown, Mike Friedrich, Tom Sutton et al, from “Warlock” #8, 1973)