Earlier this week, I was watching the latest installment of Totally Lost, the "Doc" Jensen/Dan Snierson feature that recaps and analyzes the most recent episode of Lost. In it, Jensen was shown to be reading an issue of Big Numbers, the aborted 10-inch by 10-inch comic series by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz from the early 90s, only two parts of which ever saw print before the artist bailed on it. (Lost, itself, has of course shown several comics over its lifetime so far, including a Flash/Green Lantern special and a trade paperback of Y: The Last Man, both of them in Spanish, strangely enough!) That shot of Big Numbers reminded me that, in the previous Totally Lost, there had been a hardcover edition of DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths sitting prominently on one of the hosts' bookshelf. OK, so Lost is pretty sick with comic references, but so what?
Well, today I visited CNN's website, and what should I see when I get there but the cover of Detective Comics # 27, the Batman-introducing comic, a nice copy of which recently sold for over a million dollars!
Add in the fact that at least a dozen comic-related movies are in various stages of development right now, and it's pretty clear that the genre has - for the moment, at least - undeniably thrust itself into the popular culture.
Somehow that development has not elevated me to Pop Culture God status, as it should have... but there's still time!
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You're my Pop Culture Guru!
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