Does This Cover Mean Anything to You?

For American mainstream comics fans born in the early '70s, it seems that the answer is a resounding "yes!" This silent issue of G.I. Joe (a series my crowd dismissed as a forgettable toy tie-in comic) was apparently an important moment in the young lives of future (male?) comics artists of the generation a decade after mine.

I think it was Larry Marder who first directed my attention to this weird phenomenon, but the wise and witty Shaenon Garrity has now penned the definitive write-up (with ...