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Aug 19Liked by Franklin Einspruch

Reading your journal is always eye-opening and educational. Keep'em coming.

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Ah yes the 1990s, the Golden Age of gigantic gadgets, dramatic foreshortening & -- What's the opposite of foreshortening? "Forelongation"??

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Forelongation! LOL!

The '90s were insane. In the past I've been pretty anti-Liefeld but now the mainstream titles look so boring and dumb that I've had to change my mind.

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Well that's fashions for ye ~

"All this new faddy stuff is just DUMB."

[PAUSE 20-30 YEARS]

"Now THAT'S how we did it, back in the day..."

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I think everything looks more and more like a mixed bag in retrospect, and out of the whole the masters become apparent. It takes a long time.

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Aug 19·edited Aug 19

Franklin, you're certainly entitled to your amusements, but you may have invested too much into this stuff, even before it became so, uh, compromised. In my case, the entire popular entertainment industry, especially film, has quite lost me. I can no longer abide people I don't respect who still absurdly see themselves as superior beings and presume to shove their neuroses down my throat.

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