Bendis?
So once upon a time there was a comic book 'crime noir'-type writer named Brian Michael Bendis. Some lazy inattentive reader saw him do a few issues of Daredevil and enjoyed them. She thought he was actually pretty okay. Then some years later she finds out that BENDIS is now on the same level as MILLER. AAAAAAH. Horror movie scream time. Bendis! aaaaaaaaaa!
This is extra-weird to me now that I am finally getting off my ass and reading Alias. I can see why everyone (that is, the fantypes who love to deify, that is) felt this guy was GREAT GREAT GREAT. Alias is pretty entertaining. It's clever. Though in retrospect, I suppose a good deal of it's charm is novelty.
Anyway, these days Bendis is writing shit like this:
Yeah, so Doctor Doom now apparently can't think of any insults better than UR FAT AND UR A HOR. Kinda like an angry 14 year old boy trying to cover his quaking terror and desire for the TEH BOOBIES.
People who are more attentive comic readers inform me that DOOM SPEAKS THUSLY AND DOES NOT COUNTERNANCE THIS FOOLISHNESS FROM AN INSIGNIFICANT SPECK SO SILENCE!!! and stuff. Others inform me that the real problem here is that Bendis writes every character in the voice of Bendis. So all you 'hear' when reading it is five or six versions of Bendis trading wisecracks. Everyone in a Bendis book talks like Bendis. Character voice wha?
Anyway. If I ever do this? PLZ SHOOT ME. Or have an intervention.
My ongoing list of crap that I might do that will require people to PLZ stop me and so on:
1)Fall in love with some character and make the entire damn story about them with previous plot logic and characterization as no obstacle.
2)Start writing as if there's any such thing as ABSOLUTE GOOD And ABSOLUTE EVIL. guh.
3)General mary/gary stu. Utter effortless godly perfection =/= much good for dramatic tension.
4)MAKE EVERY CHARACTER SOUND LIKE ME. PLZ NO.
I guess Alias is mostly full of Bendis-voice too, but eh. I guess it was still fun back then.
(Also, I hear scattered references to this guy turning uber-neocon. I'm scared to look at his website before I finish reading his stuff.)
This is extra-weird to me now that I am finally getting off my ass and reading Alias. I can see why everyone (that is, the fantypes who love to deify, that is) felt this guy was GREAT GREAT GREAT. Alias is pretty entertaining. It's clever. Though in retrospect, I suppose a good deal of it's charm is novelty.
Anyway, these days Bendis is writing shit like this:
Yeah, so Doctor Doom now apparently can't think of any insults better than UR FAT AND UR A HOR. Kinda like an angry 14 year old boy trying to cover his quaking terror and desire for the TEH BOOBIES.
People who are more attentive comic readers inform me that DOOM SPEAKS THUSLY AND DOES NOT COUNTERNANCE THIS FOOLISHNESS FROM AN INSIGNIFICANT SPECK SO SILENCE!!! and stuff. Others inform me that the real problem here is that Bendis writes every character in the voice of Bendis. So all you 'hear' when reading it is five or six versions of Bendis trading wisecracks. Everyone in a Bendis book talks like Bendis. Character voice wha?
Anyway. If I ever do this? PLZ SHOOT ME. Or have an intervention.
My ongoing list of crap that I might do that will require people to PLZ stop me and so on:
1)Fall in love with some character and make the entire damn story about them with previous plot logic and characterization as no obstacle.
2)Start writing as if there's any such thing as ABSOLUTE GOOD And ABSOLUTE EVIL. guh.
3)General mary/gary stu. Utter effortless godly perfection =/= much good for dramatic tension.
4)MAKE EVERY CHARACTER SOUND LIKE ME. PLZ NO.
I guess Alias is mostly full of Bendis-voice too, but eh. I guess it was still fun back then.
(Also, I hear scattered references to this guy turning uber-neocon. I'm scared to look at his website before I finish reading his stuff.)