"President Bush: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories."(May 29, 2003)

President Bush: "I recognize we didn't find the stockpiles [of weapons] we all thought were there." (Sept. 9, 2004)"

"AN: What informs your beliefs and who are you voting for in November?

TT: When I was a kid in the late 60's and early 70's, I was a "hawk"-- believed in the war in Vietnam, and all that stuff. Then I heard the song "Ohio" by Crosby Stills, Nash & Young, about the national guard shooting down Kent State antiwar protesters. The lyrics "What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground" really hit home with me, instantly. On that day I took a turn to the Left and kept on going.

I watch CSPAN every day while I work, like most people might watch ESPN Sports Channel. I'm pretty informed about the issues and about what goes on in various votes that go on in the Senate and the House. That anyone could possibly believe in or support George W. Bush and this corporate neo-con third party that's been created around him absolutely astounds and terrifies me. When someone tells me they're voting Republican this year, I just look at them and say "Wow, I didn't know you guys had a candidate."

"Zeb Wells makes a million fanboys happy:

'[My] New Warriors project with Skottie Young got the green light. The premise is that the New Warriors have trouble getting work, and they hook up with a TV show, like 'Extreme Home Makeover,' and when people around the country get menaced by a Z-grade villain, the Warriors zip off in their van and save the day.'

Did I say a million fanboys? I meant three."

"You think only 3? I'd say less. After the absolute failure of the Fight Club Thunderbolts you'd think Marvel would think twice before trying to squeeze another high concept pop culture phenomena onto a 3rd tier company-owned superhero book"

and

"I want a book where they makeover ugly female superheroes. Oh, wait... there aren't any..."

"WHAT IF THERE WERE SEVEN MORE COMICS YOU HAD TO BUY?? What if we could say, "due to popular demand" and mean it? Well, True Believer, we ain't lyin'! You wanted the craziest, most far-out What If extravaganzas we could find, so we sent some interns up to the attic of this old House of Ideas and we never heard from them again! So, we warned the industry's BEST CREATORS we'd send THEM to the attic next if they didn't come through. And they did! Look at this all-star lineup, gang, and you'll notice the only What If missing is the one about Forbush Man becoming EIC!"

"A French urban climber who calls himself "Spider-Man" scaled a 59-story Paris office building Wednesday with his bare hands and without using any ropes.

Alain Robert took less than 45 minutes to climb the nearly 700-foot-tall Montparnasse Tower building, gripping the metal girders on his way up.

Robert, renowned for climbing without ropes or other equipment, has scaled the Eiffel Tower and more than 30 skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building in 1994 and Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers in 1997."

"I'm hoping the prose stuff will be the next continuation of where I want to go. The comics audience is becoming more and more compressed and unpleasant. It's really sad. After I did 'Seaguy' and so many people said they didn't get it, I felt completely exasperated. 'Seaguy' is based on medieval quest literature which always has the young hero setting out and he has his companion who gets killed, the questing beast, but many of my readers seem to now be unaware of storytelling structures beyond the Hollywood three-act, and the literalism is so rife that nobody seems to be able to deal with symbolic content anymore. It's strange. One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is the schizophrenic can't process metaphor. If you say to a schizophrenic 'a rolling stone gathers no moss' he takes it utterly literally! He doesn't see it as having any kind of secondary meaning. My thesis is that everybody's gone kind of schizophrenic, which also explains the rise of reality TV. Because people cannot deal with a symbolic approach anymore-they have to see the 'real deal.' And the real deal is incoherent and it lacks catharsis or dramatic structure."

"Combining the instant gratification strong cartooning with the deep engagement of epic storytelling and the universal appeal of humor, Jeff Smith's "Bone" has becomes the best all-ages graphic novel yet published. While older readers will tune into such themes as the folly of blind fanaticism and the corrupting nature of power, the younger set will simply thrill to the adventure and delight at the huge cast of characters. Hardly a folly anymore, "Bone" now deserves to go from hipster cult item to mainstream literary success."

"Apparently not content with seeing his work published in every comic book published by Marvel, Brian Bendis has gone in search of finding a new outlet for his words and pictures, and found it in The New York Times."

Bone is storytelling at its best, full of endearing, flawed characters whose adventures run the gamut from hilarious whimsy to thrilling drama. Along the way, Smith's musings on Fone's love, Phoney's greed, and the town's political confusion take on a greater relevance than you'd ever expect.