tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post3681249439131338707..comments2023-03-28T04:32:18.124-04:00Comments on Witless Prattle: Just Sayin--Event Fatigue Event Horizon (or Johnny Hates Jazz)Kazekagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499536996058174109noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-64930997159828897312011-08-26T03:41:57.451-04:002011-08-26T03:41:57.451-04:00If I do nothing with my blog but lure people to my...If I do nothing with my blog but lure people to my talented friends, it has done its job well.<br /><br />It's weird, because I used THE EXACT SAME JIM CORNETTE STORY recently to explain comic book continuity to someone. I like that both of us reflexively think in old school wrestling terms when trying to find an analogy. Shh, kayfabe!<br /><br />Travis, that's been happening to me for so long that I can't even remember when it <i>didn't</i>. My complete collection of <i>Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew</i> stands as a testament to it.<br /><br />I am hopeful that the blaxploitation movie of my life will star <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUEHsyt54I" rel="nofollow">Dolemite</a>. Preferably, it will be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHqI9R1JBfU" rel="nofollow">The Human Tornado</a>. I just want to make sure I get a wardrobe like that.C. Elamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00284263547435956344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-33245532480835342942011-08-25T21:13:48.925-04:002011-08-25T21:13:48.925-04:00We'll happily take comments in lieu of money. ...We'll happily take comments in lieu of money. :)<br /><br />I think ultimately you can't let that dissuade you from getting excited about the things you enjoy--stick with it for as long as it lasts. I liked <i>Power Girl</i> for the first 2 issues, then they put Judd Winick on it and I decided I wouldn't bother when they did that. Even if no one remembers it, hey, you might get a blog post out of it someday, I always say. :)<br /><br /> I heartily agree with this. Well, maybe not when it comes to <i>East Meets Watts</i>Kazekagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499536996058174109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-30539049490092156032011-08-25T15:20:15.420-04:002011-08-25T15:20:15.420-04:00For the record, I've been coming here for a wh...For the record, I've been coming here for a while (though I did discover the Prattle through OWARI), it's just that this post is the first one that made me feel compelled to comment. Unfortunately, I cannot currently afford to send money.<br /><br />Regarding modern superhero comics, I continue to find it frustrating that every new book I really enjoy gets cancelled, and yet it happens so frequently that every time I find a new title that I'm genuinely excited about, I've simply come to expect that that's how it's going to play out: it'll be great for a year, but nobody will buy it because it has nothing to do with Dark Fear of Civil Reign: War Itself, and then it gets cancelled and forgotten about by everyone but me.<br /><br />Oh, and everything is better when it's turned into a blaxploitation movie. *Everything.*Travisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-27195324884841359502011-08-25T08:34:45.599-04:002011-08-25T08:34:45.599-04:00I wish more people would take that advice. A cash ...I wish more people would take that advice. A cash infusion would help my hurricane prep considerably. :)<br /><br />I know, right? I don't even need for it to be the END end, I just want some closure on a story point somewhat more than "Norman Osborn is in jail! But Norman Osborne will return in Live and Let Die!" Jim Cornette used to champion a rule that said that the right time to re-use an angle was seven years, because by then the audience has rolled over sufficiently to where it didn't feel like old hat. Of course wrestling, unlike comics, still <i>had</i> and audience turnover, so . . .yeah.<br /><br />I like the fact that someone needed to buttress a theory about Cable and I like to think they slammed their fist down on the desk and said "GET ME . . .ELAM!" And then we have a hard cut to you coming up out of the subway with the wacka-wacka guitar and hi-hat cymbal . . .you know, I don't know when this turned into a blaxploitation movie. It just kinda . . .did.Kazekagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499536996058174109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-61694274450507544732011-08-24T22:31:15.568-04:002011-08-24T22:31:15.568-04:00I did! I forget which day it was, but it ended wit...I did! I forget which day it was, but it ended with my telling people to give you all their money.<br /><br />"Stopping sniffing glue"? *sigh* Glad you can translate. Anyway, I guess all I ever wanted was a story that finished. Clearly, asking too much.<br /><br />In fact, he was! I wasn't so much "in" the issue, but I got my name dragged into the letter because I happened to be the person who knew trivia about <i>Guardians of the Galaxy</i>.<br /><br />...Yeah, I don't get it either. But that is the short version of my membership in "the X-Crew".C. Elamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00284263547435956344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-41101072932887426972011-08-24T22:08:12.492-04:002011-08-24T22:08:12.492-04:00. . .you had one of those? Man, my PTSD must have .... . .you had one of those? Man, my PTSD must have made me blank on seeing that.<br /><br />That's just how I feel. The things that pull me to reading comics seem alarmingly to be stuff that no one in their right mind would admit to reading.<br /><br />I did not, as it happens. I lacked that amount of gusto. Was he the guy that led to you getting published in <i>Wizard?</i>Kazekagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499536996058174109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-954179288810903482011-08-24T20:49:31.387-04:002011-08-24T20:49:31.387-04:00He's an OWARI reader. I guess the big "K...He's an OWARI reader. I guess the big "Kazekage is awesome" post I recently made paid dividends.<br /><br />Exactly. I still enjoy COMICS, but I kind of wonder if I picked the wrong week to stopping sniffing glue when I see the latest releases. Because I usually just Don't Get It.<br /><br />Ah, but did you call one of your friends every morning, chant "Cable!" into the phone, and then hang up for a month or two? This guy did.C. Elamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00284263547435956344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-87406888388459710482011-08-23T21:38:33.819-04:002011-08-23T21:38:33.819-04:00Oh, is he one of yours, then? :)
I don't thin...Oh, is he one of yours, then? :)<br /><br />I don't think it's that I've outgrown comics, because I've got plenty of comics I still read. It's just . . .it's like superhero comics have become that kid you hung out with who drinks a lot to try and be "adult" and he's just this drunken puking mess.<br /><br /> Man, Cable's solo comic. I was far too pumped for that back in the day. :)Kazekagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499536996058174109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-89651700806658570072011-08-23T01:11:26.939-04:002011-08-23T01:11:26.939-04:00I have effectively lured Travis to your blog! Hah...I have effectively lured Travis to your blog! Haha, awesome!<br /><br />Anyway, my world, and welcome to it. During the last few years, I've gone from being angry and upset about bad comics to just ambivalent. <i>Someone</i> (theoretically) cares, but I am content to enjoy the little corner of comics that I have carved out for myself. The fact that it's only relevant to me may, in fact, be the point.<br /><br />I used to scoff at the notion that I'd ever outgrow comics. I don't think I will as a medium. But as far as contemporary superhero comics, I really don't think I could've imagined this 20 years ago (sweet God) when my buddy was desperately waiting for Cable's solo comic to launch.C. Elamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00284263547435956344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-77993291238173505352011-08-22T21:26:37.070-04:002011-08-22T21:26:37.070-04:00That's exactly it. It's like a sandwich wi...That's exactly it. It's like a sandwich with all filling or a cake with all frosting--with now downtime or contrast, or so much as a breath taken. It's not a meal anymore. The universe can't blow up <i>all the time</i> of course.<br /><br />Yeah. Mind you, "The Heroic Age" was brought to you by the same people who did year upon year of dreary, glum stories to begin with, so the notion that it was anything more than a change in trade dress really told the tale. And I have as much interest in another round of Norman Osborn vs. The World as I do of eating collard greens seasoned with boar urine.<br /><br /> It's beyond shattered, and beyond critical mass. I think I've now gotten on to "heat death." I barely can be bothered to care anymore.Kazekagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499536996058174109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-65942821332120981922011-08-22T16:08:48.949-04:002011-08-22T16:08:48.949-04:00It's not just that Marvel's walking in cir...It's not just that Marvel's walking in circles; it's that those circles are getting progressively smaller. What they don't understand is that by having one crossover bleed into the next (which promptly nullifies any status quo established by its predecessor) they're basically training their readers to disregard <i>all</i> Events - because when "nothing will ever be the same again" is invoked on a biannual basis, there's no "same" to compare it to anymore.<br /><br />Case in point: wasn't "The Heroic Age" touted as being a move away from the motifs of "Civil War" and "Dark Reign"? But here we are again with some more Norman Osborn. Meanwhile there just hasn't been enough creative turnover to sell me on the possibility of any meaningful change: the Marvel Universe is still being defined by the people who dragged it down in the first place.<br /><br />So... yeah. The only thing they're "shattering" is the interest of readers like us who may finally be reaching critical mass. :)Diana Kingston-Gabainoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-3618987378585020862011-08-22T13:47:09.485-04:002011-08-22T13:47:09.485-04:00Yeah, despite the move from the official policy of...Yeah, despite the move from the official policy of decompression, I think ultimately decompression won, and won in such a way as it co-opted the Big Events, which are the only thing that moves anything forward (and even then at mind-numbing slow speeds) which leaves the main books to contemplate their navels.<br /><br />I think I've now gotten paste my hate of filler and now <i>everything</i> seems like filler. The only slim hope for any change is that DC's books, having publicly renounced writing for the trade, will have no choice but to build a core identity in the books before they start criscrossing over, but considering how much other stuff they've walked back on, my hopes aren't high.Kazekagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499536996058174109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207237618509440496.post-81038516127546128262011-08-22T10:48:46.215-04:002011-08-22T10:48:46.215-04:00Some comments on the press release or whatever in ...Some comments on the press release or whatever in the article you linked to:<br /><br />"I’ve long wanted to see the X-Men more integrated into the Marvel Universe, to see them bumping shoulders with heroes like the Avengers, and this is our shot."<br />Yeah, imagine how cool it would be if Beast, or Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, could be Avengers! Wouldn't that be awesome? Or what if Wolverine could just appear in every title we published, ever? Man, that'd be so great!<br /><br />"In this current market, readers are looking — first and foremost — for connectivity."<br />Well, I can't speak for all readers, but I, for one, am not. I'm actually looking for the exact opposite: I want things I can read without having to also read every single other title you guys publish.<br /><br />"That’s not to say we can’t launch a new series that completely stands on its own two legs — we do so all the time.."<br />...and then they get cancelled after a year (if you're lucky) because not being involved in the line-wide events means that no one buys them.<br /><br />And it's interesting you should bring up Crisis, because I'm actually in the middle of reading it right now for the first time; it did occur to me that if the original Crisis were to be a series now, it would take something like three or four years to cover everything that's happening in this single twelve-issue series(and that's ignoring the inevitable delays that would make it go on even longer). It's amazing how much faster stories can move when you cut out all the seven-page-long conversations that consist of one panel repeated over and over and over.Travisnoreply@blogger.com