Hey Kids! Comics! Hey! Hey!! Kids, Get Back Here! Comics! Uh, Little Overpriced Pamphlets Filled With a Combination of Words and….Oh, Forget It.

For those who miss our former Web editor Tim Cavanaugh around these parts as much as I do, check out his typically stylish meditation on the endless life and lingering death of the American comic book at the LA Times.

Here's me from reason in May 2001 on the bizarre dominance of the superhero in the comic book field.