tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361629402614612788.post2025093527912831184..comments2024-03-18T12:44:16.501-07:00Comments on Ich Liebe Comics !: Dead and recovering nicelyRalph Mathieuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974795088432810535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361629402614612788.post-66108212257027090172007-07-06T16:17:00.000-07:002007-07-06T16:17:00.000-07:00Thor is the god of thunder, Flash the god of speed...Thor is the god of thunder, Flash the god of speed,Spiderman and his supporting cast, a modern retelling of various trickster gods, and Steve Rogers,Captain America, the god of American Patriotism. The gods,in modern storytelling, are purely human inventions to be created, destroyed, and recreated to suit the needs of the storyteller and the audience.kreeson1https://www.blogger.com/profile/17879439927924075830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361629402614612788.post-28555244231018683482007-07-05T19:51:00.000-07:002007-07-05T19:51:00.000-07:00Todd, as ever your comments are very insightful. Y...Todd, as ever your comments are very insightful. Your perspective on how Marvel looks at their character's deaths is especially interesting (particularly your take on Brubaker) versus DC's. <BR/><BR/>I do think that Marc Guggenheim made the last five issues of the newest Flash comic interesting even with the whole Bart being Flash a misfit (not his fault) and while I think his last issue was good I don't think that Bart had to die, although his funeral made for a good issue of Countdown (finally) this week (deaths often lead to good, easy drama).Ralph Mathieuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974795088432810535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361629402614612788.post-85686308456813515522007-07-05T11:12:00.000-07:002007-07-05T11:12:00.000-07:00I think it’s too simple to paint marvel and DC (at...I think it’s too simple to paint marvel and DC (at least in their current iterations) with the same brush. The Flash death was all unearned sentiment (unearned being the key word). DC couldn’t be bothered to do the work of making us care – 13 issues of barely tolerable writing and art and confusing continuity, ending with a guy in a Flash suit dying (which, despite what anyone has said, reeks of last minuteism), does not merit the Pieta level gravitas we had to witness. DC is Tami Faye Baker, running mascara and all.<BR/><BR/>Marvel, on the other hand, might as well be a Chuck Mitchell looking, cigar chomping salesman, shaking your hand saying “I’m lyin’ to ya’, but your gonna buy my crap anyway.” Except for Brubaker, that is, that seems to view this whole “comic book death” thing in more of a DePalma movie or even James Bond-like way… it’s a way to mess with your head. Brubaker seems to want to poke the carcass of audience expectation with a stick and see if it twitches. I think it is key in my acceptance of this fake death that it is occurring within the context of a well written book about double crosses and double-double crosses and that seems to know I know that this, and is staring me in the face anyway.<BR/><BR/>Besides the Brubaker stuff, both approaches are cynical, but I prefer Marvel’s knowing carnival hucksterism to DC’s garage sale sincerity.Todd C. Murryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00660028880926115772noreply@blogger.com