School Shootings in Mainstream American Comic Books

Five years ago this week, I awoke at about one in the afternoon to images on the television of a building under siege. Figuring it to be just another in the long line of such images emanating from Kosovo at the time, I dragged my carcass out of bed and idled from my fourth floor room in Funelle Hall to the dining hall downstairs. It wasn't until I was sitting down, scarfing down cardboard and …

…deterioration of the manufacturing base means that kids can't even count on the mediocre lives their parents have been trapped in. <Tab/>Constantine's soliloquy goes on for pages, and is the best-thought-out and best-written take on school shootings that was presented in The United States immediately following Columbine. Straying from Seduction of the Gun terrirtory, the guns themselves aren't vilified--but the culture that would drive children to pick them up are.