Which is the more meaningful comics reading experience: A) Saving [or clipping from] a publication you’d otherwise just throw out, because it contains a comic you really liked; or B) Holding onto a mediocre comic book because you paid good money for it, and it’s printed on such nice paper?* Take raised expectations and the anxiety of spending money out of the equation, and a lot more people will come to the happy surprise that they Actually Like Reading Comics.

Anyway, nice article. Looking forward to reading all about Ted Forth!

*False dichotomy, I know; but if there weren’t good cheap comics out there to attract new fans, there’d be a lot fewer people willing to buy the pricey, well-produced ones.

The downside is, of course, my friends don’t believe them when I tell them Sally Forth is actually really funny.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun

In any case, I was using the quote less to explore the point she was making and more as a leaping-off point about not only the actual physical disposability of daily comics (people generally don’t file them away in long-boxes like they do magazines) but also about the mental disposability exhibited by many comics critics: that is, the way in which they are denied the attention and consideration they deserve, the way in which critics “throw” them away.