Hellfire 1983 interview : Alan Moore & Garry Leach

In this rare interview scanned by Loopy Joe and published in Hellfire (a newsletter), Comics legend
Alan Moore
gives very frank answers about writing comics and pull no punches about what is wrong with the state of comics, then dominated by poorly written Marvel and DC yarns.
Invaluable advice about characterization for all writers.
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Why the U.S. does not deserve to be secure

Is AMERICA a war monger or a peacemaker?

US spends $450 billion a year on military-defence and $15 billion on developmental aid.

Of this $15 billion — mostly goes to Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Turkey — for U.S.-led war on DRUGS, and terrorism  — money for its allies and to rebuild countries which U.S. has bombed to bits.
When [...]

The Bell – I know who I am, do you?

THE BELL
I KNOW WHO I AM
I am God’s child (John 1:12)
I am Christ’s friend (John 15:15 )
I am united with the Lord(1 Cor. 6:17 )
I am bought with a price(1 Cor. 6:19-20)
I am a saint (set apart for God). (Eph. 1:1)
I am a personal witness of Christ. (Acts 1:8)
I am the salt [...]

Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

This is McCarthy’s follow up to “No Country for Old men,” a book which I also liked a lot.
It’s unrelated but has the same bleak tone and dark theme about a fallen world and the end of humanity.
It seems McCarthy is heavily influenced by John’s book of Revelations which talks about end times except that [...]

statio – the beauty of a PAUSE

Monastics have a practise they call  “statio.”

That means simply, stopping one thing before begining another.
Rather than rushing from one task to the next, pause for a moment and recognize the time between times.
Before dialing the phone, pause, and think about the conversation and the person on the other end.
After reading from a book, pause, and [...]