The Hoard Potato Muses about Comics

[athelind]

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One:

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I've finally figured out my utter dis¹ for DC's recent business model of resurrecting Silver Age characters who got killed off in the '80s and '90s because they couldn't sustain their own titles.

As I mentioned the other day, I don't like zombies.²

Certainly, remembering, as one example, the long, dragged, out "Trial of the Flash" that closed out Barry Allen's run months before he met his end in Crisis on Infinite Earths is not that far removed from having the fragrance of three-month-old sea lion carcasses waft unbidden through one's amygdala.³

At least when Marvel turns its colorfully-costumed characters into shambling undead mockeries, they're occasionally honest about it.

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Two:

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DC is releasing a series of prequels to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic graphic novel, Watchmen.

I reserve judgment on whether or not this is a bad move; really, I'm finding myself far too tickled by the outrage of the fandom (and Alan Moore) to really have many objections myself (and besides, one of them will have Darwyn Cooke art).

However, something occurred to me the other day:

Watchmen is older than most of the "old comics" it was based on were when it was published.

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¹disinterest/disappointment/distaste/disdain/disregard/dyspepsia ...

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²I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oot the whole trend down!

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³I have a dread suspicion that that storyline, which seemed to take forever at the time, might seem a masterpiece of snappy pacing compared to the "decompressed" storytelling of today's "decompressed".

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Comments

[mocha-mephooki.livejournal.com]

It could always be worse... for instance, Frank Miller's "Hard-Boiled" could be being made into a movie... (its not, that I know of, and I really hope it stays that way)

[kymri.livejournal.com]

This third point amuses me to no end, mostly because while I have great respect for (some of) Mr. Moore's work - let's just say that I've had gradually less and less for the man himself over the years. (Sudden drops typically come around any time he opens his mouth in a public forum - the first MAJOR one was his complaints about what had been done to 'his story [valid] and characters [bahahahaha]' in the LXG movie. Which, to be fair, was pretty not-great.)