EACEPAY*

He's back? But he made such a grand finale, swooping his cape and making a speech and everything! That's so anti-climactic. 

The thing that bothers me is that Pigman is so utterly unheroic. He's just a weapon.  In fact, if I were to argue the exact opposite point, that Islam was good and the enemy were sick, murderous, evil and heartless bastards bent on wiping out every moslem man, woman and child, Pigman would be the perfect one-dimensional super villain.

If the Pigman in the book is as Bosch has so ... kindly .. suggested here, and the "hero" of the book shares his views and the general drift is as he has suggested, I think he will experience the backlash that he's obviously expecting. But not because we're all duped by Islam. Not because of the PC police.

Just because it's not good.

Good literature, even when it has a backbone of steel, is insightful, nuanced and complex in its understanding of human nature and the world around us. Everything Bosch has shown us would indicate that he lacks the capacity for that.

"Anyway I'm not sure where all these charges of "self-promotion" come from, I think Bosch has been pretty well restrained in that regard. "

I think his history on the board may tie into that. The first time I saw him post on this board he had something like 10 hits and he started a thread specifcally to promote "The infidel".

He was told about the rules against self promotion, and I suggested if he wanted to link to his website he could put a link in his signature at the bottom of his post like everybody else.  He got all pissy about it and said he'd do whatever he damned well pleased and his thread got nuked. Twice, I think.

Aside from posting a few pictures of Pigman in the sketchbook thread I think pretty much every post he's made on this board has mysteriously triggered a presentation from him of his Pigman character and the Infidel book.

Even the war books that were supposed to be the topic of his thread? Several other people have brought up Post 9/11 war references in comics and elsewhere, but he's not engaging them in that discussion. Instead trying to turn the discussion (which he started) to The Infidel, which  he apparently believes to be the only post 9/11 war comic in existence (only, not yet.) . If you look at his latest posts he practically boasts that he came here to talk about Pigman. (Of course he might now return to claim that was a joke. On us. Which he is above explaining.)

And with a  mere 100 posts under his belt, I think the posts somehow referencing his great Pigman book easily makes up more than half.

It's all he ever does here. So it gets noticed. 

Interesting. I knew you were hurting, Zaki, but attributing words to me as If I actually wrote them......

Hey, Al.

I thought I was saying that. I must be more obtuse than I thought.