Comments on: I WILL TELL YOU #21: Unclog the Drain! https://gobacktothepast.com/i-will-tell-you-21-unclog-the-drain/ Your Source for Everything Pop Culture Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:55:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Jim Johnson https://gobacktothepast.com/i-will-tell-you-21-unclog-the-drain/#comment-143 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:47:39 +0000 https://gobacktothepast.com/?p=1863#comment-143 In reply to Dave Marchand.

Thanks, Dave; glad you “got” it. You’re right about this inspiring future discussion; the next column just might touch on this very topic!

I’m not sure I would have gotten the idea had I not stolen your column for a week . . .

]]> By: Dave Marchand https://gobacktothepast.com/i-will-tell-you-21-unclog-the-drain/#comment-142 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:58:35 +0000 https://gobacktothepast.com/?p=1863#comment-142 You left my column relatively unscathed by the appearance, and it was appreciated…as was the fun I had doing Greg’s!

Yes, it does appear George Carlin’s classic definition of “Stuff” is taking a beating, isn’t it? “Stuff” is now more mental…it applies to what we read, even what we think. And, when you borrowed my column, think you did a great job of capturing that. After all, are the comics the physical pieces of paper that hold the ink….or are the characters and concepts that appear on those pages, to be transmitted however they can be?

Technology makes for interesting times! The comics may not change, but how we get them WILL. The physical comic may go the way of the 45…but the comics will continue. But, that then makes an actual comic…that much more collectible, since it “real stuff” as opposed to “intellectual stuff”. We’re headed into the “Undiscovered County” of the future (as discussed by good ol’ Bill Shakespeare back in the day, or Bill Shatner in Star Trek VI! And will this future be able to support dinosaurs like us who want a paper comic?)

And all of this…is great “stuff” for future columns and debate!

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