a couple of MJ links, & some thoughts about the Big Two's appeal
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all_time_fanboy : Wizard talked to a bunch of Spider-Man creators about Pete & MJ.
Jeph Loeb & Tom Brevoort did not give me good impressions. Loeb comes off as someone who refuses to accept any newly revealed hidden depths. In that vein, can Superman fans tell me how he wrote Lois Lane?
One answer was actually confusing to me.
MARK BAGLEY: What young reader wants to pick up a book about a 27-year-old guy married to a supermodel? [Laughs]
Huh? That reads to me the opposite of how he seemed to mean it in context. I guess I would have been that reader. Young readers will read about adults, you know. When I was in high school, I would have really been into the idea of being 27 & married to a supermodel. Is he talking about even younger readers? I don't know, maybe those who wanted a teen hero could have read Darkhawk or something?
I liked DeFalco's answers. He came off well here.
Also,
box_in_the_box on how to write realistic drama about real, grown-up superheroes. Stupid "Love Triangles" with only two people? NOT IT.
Geez, if some guy implausibly passing as two different people to his intimate friends who have dealt in person with both identities (which has been brought back in full stupid form in the current Wonder Woman) is what the staffs at Marvel & DC want, then you know? It fits. Really it does. Because it's not about writing plausible characters anymore, it's about fetish. It's about a silly prepubescent psychosexual fantasy imprinted in childhood.
Just like Wonder Woman's costume.
Seriously.
Excuse me for mistaking "comic books" for anything else.
...maybe I can blog about TV shows, the new season is starting.
all_time_fanboy : Wizard talked to a bunch of Spider-Man creators about Pete & MJ.
Jeph Loeb & Tom Brevoort did not give me good impressions. Loeb comes off as someone who refuses to accept any newly revealed hidden depths. In that vein, can Superman fans tell me how he wrote Lois Lane?
One answer was actually confusing to me.
MARK BAGLEY: What young reader wants to pick up a book about a 27-year-old guy married to a supermodel? [Laughs]
Huh? That reads to me the opposite of how he seemed to mean it in context. I guess I would have been that reader. Young readers will read about adults, you know. When I was in high school, I would have really been into the idea of being 27 & married to a supermodel. Is he talking about even younger readers? I don't know, maybe those who wanted a teen hero could have read Darkhawk or something?
I liked DeFalco's answers. He came off well here.
Also,
box_in_the_box on how to write realistic drama about real, grown-up superheroes. Stupid "Love Triangles" with only two people? NOT IT.
Geez, if some guy implausibly passing as two different people to his intimate friends who have dealt in person with both identities (which has been brought back in full stupid form in the current Wonder Woman) is what the staffs at Marvel & DC want, then you know? It fits. Really it does. Because it's not about writing plausible characters anymore, it's about fetish. It's about a silly prepubescent psychosexual fantasy imprinted in childhood.
Just like Wonder Woman's costume.
Seriously.
Excuse me for mistaking "comic books" for anything else.
...maybe I can blog about TV shows, the new season is starting.