Not by the Direct Method., All-American Western #104 (December 1948). That...

All-American Western #104 (December 1948). That first panel, the lines “I’m not a person! I’m an idea!…and you can’t shoot an idea!” is an interesting precursor to V for Vendetta’s “Did you think to kill me? There’s no flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

Note, please, that I’m not implying that Alan Moore indulged in plagiarism. He’s far too proud for that, as he’d be the first to admit, and far too talented. (Plus, please, how would he have seen this?) This is a coincidence, and only that. I’m just struck by the similarity between the two, and the incongruity of the idea appearing in a Western.

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Quotes and thoughts I lack the time or energy to pursue more fully and turn into proper blog posts.

Title taken from Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians:

"It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank, or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity."

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