A Book Log
Mark Millar leaves me completely cold. Everything I've read by him gives the impression of straining for cool. You know, "Hey, wouldn't it be really radical if Jenny Sparks met ADOLF HITLER! Yeah, Hitler! Cool! And like, she knew him when he was an artist! Wow, I can't believe I'm going to write a comic with HITLER in it! That's gonna shake things up around here!" "Hey! What if the Authority fought, like, The Avengers! But they were bad guys! The fan boys' heads will explode!" "Oh, oh, I know! I'm going to mention Freddie Prinze in my comic! Take THAT, MTV!" Its the kind of lazy 'transgression' Alan Moore was satirizing ten years ago...
Ray -- Thu Aug 19 09:02:37 2004
Oh, so we're back to the post-Dark Knight/Watchmen era then, where we onece again discover that superheroes are, like, so cheesy man and they should be more like the movies.
Marvel's Ultimate line hasn't decheezed, just swapped one sort of cheese for another, quite stinky one, in the process once again feeding on the corpses of Kirby, Lee and Ditko (you know what i mean...) in yet another lame attempt to sell the same overhyped warmed up shit by flogging the dead horse to this generation of fanboys.
Hey, Ultimate Fantastic Four is so realistic, they call Dr Doom "Van Damme".
Whoo.
Memo to all prospective comics writers: 1) you're not Alan Moore 2) accept that cheesiness is an integral part of the superhero genre and use it to your advantage 3) stop reworking the same old tired concepts abd find something new.
Memo to prospective artists: learn to draw, draw what serves the story, not just the pinups you'd like to draw.
Funny, I could have written this rant in 1995.
Martin Wisse (weaselwords@cloggie.org) (http://www.cloggie.org/books/) -- Mon Aug 23 18:17:04 2004
You could have, and it'd actually have been on-point, then.
Mike Kozlowski (web@klio.org) (http://www.klio.org/marks/) -- Mon Aug 23 19:13:57 2004
Oh, so we're back to the post-Dark Knight/Watchmen era then, where we onece again discover that superheroes are, like, so cheesy man and they should be more like the movies.
Marvel's Ultimate line hasn't decheezed, just swapped one sort of cheese for another, quite stinky one, in the process once again feeding on the corpses of Kirby, Lee and Ditko (you know what i mean...) in yet another lame attempt to sell the same overhyped warmed up shit by flogging the dead horse to this generation of fanboys.
Hey, Ultimate Fantastic Four is so realistic, they call Dr Doom "Van Damme".
Whoo.
Memo to all prospective comics writers: 1) you're not Alan Moore 2) accept that cheesiness is an integral part of the superhero genre and use it to your advantage 3) stop reworking the same old tired concepts abd find something new.
Memo to prospective artists: learn to draw, draw what serves the story, not just the pinups you'd like to draw.
Funny, I could have written this rant in 1995.
Martin Wisse (weaselwords@cloggie.org) (http://www.cloggie.org/books/) -- Tue Aug 24 08:55:17 2004
I will probably never read the book, but I just want to say that I love the idea of Thor as a long-haired hippie freak! Groovy, man!
Pam (http://www.pobox.com/~kor2/booklog) -- Mon Sep 13 22:09:10 2004