I used to work with a guy who grew up in the rural American Midwest, used chew, knew how to drive a tractor. He was crazy about Scrooge McDuck and Huey, Louie and Dewie comics. I guess I just assumed there were people who were fans here?

“POV Centrist”

I have enjoyed Gaiman’s writing, also the Sandman show was excellent, but I am glad that in this era that I’m not the type of person to be a fan of anybody. I guess it is natural to ascribe virtue and look up to people who create thing you resonate with, but there’s no reason to think someone who wrote a book is worth praising or emulating other than in the book you liked.

Thrn you realize that alien invasion stories are a (often unconscious) metaphor for colonialism from the point of view of the colonized…