Marvel's website has a cool feature up right now: an interview with Billy from Twin Cities punk kingpins Dillinger Four, who's apparently a big comic fan. This surprised and delighted me, since punk rock and comic books are two of my favorite things in the world.
I've often wondered which punks read comics. As the article mentions, rock and roll and comic books have a shared cultural lineage: both helped put young people at the center of American pop culture, and both have been blamed for turning those same kids into delinquents—by stuffed-shirt moral guardians like Tennessee senator Estes Kefauver. (Video games, with their own staunch and slightly deranged nemesis in Jack Thompson, can probably also be added to this list.)
And Billy's a man of taste: even though he plugs the usual Marvel suspects (the Ultimate line, Bendis' output, and the rock-solid but slightly overhyped Immortal Iron Fist—but that's another post), he also recommends J. Michael Stracynzski's excellent redux of Squadron Supreme, which I've always thought deserved more buzz.* Excelsior!
* Footnote: Supreme Power did get plenty of hype while it was coming out: a 2004 "Marvel vs. DC" poll in Wizard saw readers deciding that, of the two companies, Marvel had the better adult-imprint title—over Y: The Last Man. And as much as I love Supreme Power, that's just crazy talk.
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