My friend, TV critic Aaron Barnhart, reviewed the first week of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Aaron and I don't always agree but we agree on this.
A jury recently found a man named Ed Rosenthal guilty of growing marijuana. Right after the trial, the jury learned some facts about the case that had been withheld from them in court, and several members of that jury immediately decided their verdict was wrong. For a frightening portrait of how the law works in John Ashcroft's America, read this news account. And this New York Times editorial properly expresses the outrage this kind of thing warrants.
I still don't understand the Amazon sales rankings but I see that my new book, Mad Art, has jumped way up in them. Last Saturday, they finally changed its status to "Usually ships in 24 hours." On Sunday, it jumped from #34,735 to #4,211, then down to #4,971 on Monday, which I guess is still good.
The sequel to my other book, Comic Books and Other Necessities of Life is on the way. It will be another batch of old funnybook-oriented columns plus some new ones, and it'll be out in time for this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego. So start saving up those bucks for…
