Guy who has only seen Naomi Wolf interviews: Getting a lot of ‘Death recorded’ vibes from this…
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![David Colton was born a frail, asthmatic and short kid. After he witnessed the September 11th attack, David went enlist to the Army. Constantly bullied by the other recruits, his fate changed after a brutal beating by his sergeant, he was chosen to undergo the Super-Soldier Serum process.[4] New and fresh, Colton was dubbed "Captain America" and was deployed to both Afghanistan[3] and Iraq,[5] marking the beginning of his descent into cynicism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreiepsydcbbugfukmmqxrlrz767oolyaf5ntp2hhyvfkv3f25ctdldq)
![Excerpt from an Ng Suat Tong article in TCJ #187.
"ITS 1992 AND YOU’RE ATTENDING
an industry roundtable, when somebody you’ve
seen somewhere and heard of in some maga-
zine stands up to make a short statement. Ap-
parently he’s given The Dark Knight Returns to
his brother-in-law who has “[thrown] it over his
shoulder in disgust”:"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreiaxyfat5zrgi6ss2mqtwthcxuymehijowym6a3dpcdndoiak72l6u)
![[cont]
"He could not make head or tail of it. Sorry Frank,
but the fact is we’re talking to ourselves a lot here,
guys... We've got to toughen up as creators, and as
publishers, I think. We’ve got to realize that if
we’re going to get out there and communicate, we
had better start being communicators. We'd better
learn our craft... Storytelling has been around
forever... If we don’t... stop being these six-month
wonders who think that just because they can do
glitzy graphics that they somehow now know what
they're doing in terms of speaking a visual
language, we’re in big trouble."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreigwiavliksre7koso5jhbhap2lygrwt653olcmdrfqyxa64fsc65u)
![[cont]
"The person sitting beside you nods his head
in agreement. You instantly recognize the
speaker as the man the Journal has been calling
the Beast of the Apocalypse. Somebody says to
you, “That’s Jim Shooter.” As if you didn’t
know. You understand that his words are meant
strictly for the superhero market and those..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreif37uhgjhtunh3ik2hh46ujhcalvlmdvgceu2mtvwc53lj3cperee)
![[cont]
"...interested in the commercial viability of com-
ics. The question is whether you nod your head
in agreement as well or whether you feel like
strangling him?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreihzclgvmdhspnvr7xyfkpgx444ylfrts3nydyuodd7lnokerl4lv4)
