tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post3591139642290138333..comments2024-02-10T01:05:19.568-08:00Comments on Every Day Is Like Wednesday: Is superhero decadence a chronic condition?Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-32844485631083632572012-06-05T14:33:56.037-07:002012-06-05T14:33:56.037-07:00Kevin,
Auugh, now I can't stop seeing him as ...Kevin,<br /><br />Auugh, now I can't stop seeing him as LL Cool J! <br /><br />Manta said knock you out!Calebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-4550701249070605562012-06-05T07:25:14.217-07:002012-06-05T07:25:14.217-07:00An inevitable change of standards of realism, I...An inevitable change of standards of realism, I'd say, that affects every ganre and aspect of storytelling in time. Compare 1970s gritty crime with those from the 1930s. Why, just compare Scorsese's Goodfellas with Coppola's naive, heroic and glamorous take on the Mafia in The Godfather. Or the hard science fiction of today with the space operas of decades ago.<br /><br />Times change, our expectations change, we're better read and informed than before, we get tired of reading and seeing the same things, the same way over and over. And I imagine writers get tired of writing them the same over and over too.<br /><br />I can't read current superhero stories, they're just awful stuff, but not because villains are now threatening to kill the heroes' families. That makes sense to me. If we're going to pretend that wouldn't happen, we may as well go back to pretending crime never pays, that all cops are morally upstanding people and that all crooks are caught.<br /><br />My problem isn't that villains are more violent, or the stakes higher and more personal - it's just basic storytelling and understanding of drama has disappeared from comic book writers. They can't make that violence interesting at all, the way Alan Moore can, for instance. And even Grant Morrison is quite good at it - the super-sentinel exterminating Genosha was one of the most violent things I've ever seen and was exceptionally well-written and emotional.<br /><br />The pages you've shown? It's not that they're violent that matters; it's that it's a hollow, meaningless violence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-56777482504769197912012-06-04T21:00:12.332-07:002012-06-04T21:00:12.332-07:00Its a shame to see this.
Also, black manta totall...Its a shame to see this.<br /><br />Also, black manta totally looks like LL Cool J. <br /><br />http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ll+cool+j&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch<br /><br />Yeah?Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13840499190180485773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-7420276831039682752012-06-04T19:49:53.174-07:002012-06-04T19:49:53.174-07:00Remember, Lobo started as a parody, and became a t...Remember, Lobo started as a parody, and became a template.Jeff McGinleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17788944317811387240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-84719730663519345222012-06-04T18:38:46.870-07:002012-06-04T18:38:46.870-07:00Wow, yeah. That's awful.Wow, yeah. That's awful.Anthony Strandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15170406011301084809noreply@blogger.com