Snark

I was thinking a little today about the problem of snark. I haven’t read David Denby’s book on it, but I was able to work out after thinking about it for a while that the lowest form of snark possible on the internet would be snark about John Byrne’s Canadian superhero team, Alpha Flight:

(I apologize for the monochrome; I think I may own a colored original of this particular issue, purchased by my loving parents at the City News in Morehead City, NC when I was about five or so; but the mountains around me are tall and deep with snow, and I could never find it now.)