Jump to content

Trace

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3,683

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Trace

    Other comics we read recently

    in Comics

    Posted

    Fair enough.

     

    I'll just add this from Timothy Callahan of CBR:

    It was a story about Jack Kirby's corrupted legacy. It was a story about the relationship between creators and creation. It was a story about diversity overcoming singlemindedness. And as fragmented and chaotic (and narratively incomplete) it may have seemed, it was smart enough to weave those flaws into the text of the story itself. As Supergirl says in "Final Crisis" #7, the rupture in spacetime feels strange: "like it's all broken up from one minute to the next."

     

     

     

     

    To sort of give my brain a break from Morrison-warping, I read a couple issues of Fin Fang 4. Really enjoying lil' ol' Googam!

    I dislike greatly.

    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    In my somewhat limited travel experiences I've found that there are stupid people everywhere-- the U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on them; seemingly every country has its share of jingoists, slobs, aggressively idiotic citizens, etc.

    By the same token, they also have some pretty amazing people.

     

    Try not to judge us by our slow (but usually well-meaning) vacationers and emissaries.

    Other comics we read recently

    in Comics

    Posted

    Final Crisis #7-I'd like to know what Grant Morrison was thinking while writing this. Now, this issue is completely flawed, no doubt, but it had a lot of promise. What I want to know is why us, the readers, weren't allowed to see any of these awesome events happening? Everything just got bundled up in this final issue and thrown at us in disconnected scenes.

    You have read Morrison before, haven't you?

    :wink:

    After 5 issues of boredom, with nothing happening,

    Wow. Just, wow.

    Morrison decides to pack all of his ideas into this final issue.

    You have read Morrison before, haven't you?

    :wink:

    It truly reads like a send-up of Moore

    (edited for truthiness)

    or like something a child would write.

    The smartest child ever?

    :tongue:

    "Then this awesome thing happened, ok? But then, over there, this great thing happened, ok? Oh yeah! And then how about when this amazing this happened?". Show don't tell, Morrison.

    He was showing how storytelling (the framing for FC itself) devolved until it became something else, something that actually evolved out of the muck and the mire (of current trends in comics).

    Perhaps if Morrison had spread these scenes throughout the entire series, Final Crisis wouldn't be Morrison's greatest failure.

    Again: Wow. Just, wow. Re-read it a couple times then let's see if you still feel that way.

    I wonder what that final scene portends?

    I thought it was an insanely smart take on the Omega Sanction-- alpha/omega, beginning/end, cyclical time, etc. As for your specific question, let's hope other writers use it properly (but I'm not confident they will).

    Overall, I did get a perverse glee from this final issue, but for everyone who hated Superman Beyond, well this is Superman Beyond with the most severe case of ADD.

    Finally, I agree with something you've said! And we're supposed to be the 2 biggest Morrison-lovers around here!

    But, the original Crisis and Infinite Crisis were far better.

    Aaaaannnnnddd you've lost me again.

     

    Other comics we read recently

    in Comics

    Posted

    Yes. Although your description of events, I wouldn't say it in those terms.

    I didn't actually read it, just skimmed through it a my LCS due to a couple people raving about it in this here thread.

     

    I gave up on X-Factor after the issue where Layla and a dupe go to Bishop's future-- the whole Messiah Complex event was running through the X-titles and that's what drove me off. I am so fucking sick of that shit, why can't they just let writers have their own (relatively) self-contained books? I swear, it seems that more issues of a given X-title in a year are devoted to stupid crossovers than they are to, you know, the actual book itself. Ridiculous. Marvel can eat a bag full of cocks.

    I dislike greatly.

    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    Something that amuses me is how the "Founding Fathers" rebelled against the "Tyranny of the King" and gave themselves a Constitution to prevent anyone elses tyranny ever effecting them and yet...AMERICA in its "Freedom" actually isn't. Even an absolute majority, 90% even, couldn't vote themselves freedom from the constitution. The three hundred year old rich privileged elitest slave holders creed has each and every American in an absolute and tyrannical hold. If every one of them decided tomorrow that their peace, freedom and happiness was best served by having a Queen, like the happy free Dutchmen and Englishmen and Norwedgians do, they couldn't do it. It is a crime to advocate and impossible for someone to stand for the Senate on that platform. To be free they would need another war, in effect.

    Quoted, truncated, and highlighted for TRUTH (Justice, and the American way).

×
×
  • Create New...