Over on Eye On Comics, Don MacPherson takes a look back on the wave of benefit books various publishers and creators were involved with in the wake of the September 11 attacks, and he speaks to a couple of those creators. I bought and read all of these, and remember finding many of the stories tremendously affecting at the time. I wonder how much of that was the raw emotion permeating everything at the time, and how much of that was the skill with which the individual stories were created (and if that even really matters, in the long run). I suspect some of them stand the test of time quite nicely—there are certainly a few I vividly remember despite not having cracked any of these covers in about eight years now—and some don’t. Anyway, take a look at MacPherson’s piece if you get a chance today.
