jas wrote:
KOBE, Dinosaurs created, published and read BIZARRE SEX and DOPE COMIX!


Um, no. They most certainly did NOT.
You seem to think I'm talking about "old people" when I use the word dinosaurs. I'm not.
Dinosaurs are persons who are so set in their ways they almost instinctively fear/hate any kind of change (even before they know what type of change we're talking about). Why bother testing some new shoes when they can be comfortable wearing the same pair of raggedy old slippers for the rest of their lives? They detest anything too "experimental" or outré.
That's NOT necessarily related to being old in the biological sense. On these very boards I've met several persons, not even 40, who are dinosaurs, and who wouldn't be caught dead reading a comic book called BIZARRE SEX. (Don't you know comics are supposed to be for children and should be bright and colorful and full of positive thoughts?) For them, the words "cutting edge" and "hip" are almost synonymous with crap. (They can be used as a crutch for weaker material only pretending to be sophisticated, but more often than not they deserve our attention)
Conversely, I've also met here some people pushing sixty (and even beyond) who have shown me they're still interested in new stuff. Not just new stories of the same tired, old characters (which are essentially nothing more than endless repetitions of the same), but new types of characters, new techniques of telling a story, new art styles. They're still eager to experience whatever crazy novelty Life throws at them. Even if only by showing up every week on my Weekly Pull List threads (and even if their tastes in there are more conservative than mine), they prove to me they're still looking to be pleasantly surprised. These persons have clearly NOT been selected by evolution (or the fairy-tale God, if you prefer) to become extinct. On the contrary, we need more of them!
And the people who created, published and read BIZARRE SEX and DOPE COMIX, people like Art Spiegelman or Howard Cruse or Dennis Kitchen (or Reed Waller, in particular) are certainly NOT dinosaurs. Not then, and not now.