tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post475210135964682225..comments2023-11-05T07:44:07.654-05:00Comments on GeniusboyFiremelon: My New CBR Column and a WELCOME MessageTimothy Callahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04078183191900311833noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-74931764672950497242008-08-29T19:54:00.000-04:002008-08-29T19:54:00.000-04:00I enjoyed the column very much. The earlier comme...I enjoyed the column very much. The earlier comment is makes a good point, in that a lot of super-hero comics aren't well-written... but they're also hastily drawn. This has more to do with being the dominant genre, though: a lot of comics in other genres aren't good, either, and a lot of material in any medium is similarly bad.<BR/><BR/>I understand not liking super-heroes because you just don't enjoy the genre, think it's limited, or flat-out resent its dominance. If 90% of all movies were action movies (or romance ones), I'd be pretty pissed.<BR/><BR/>What's CRAZY is thinking that, out of all those super-hero comics, which attract a lot of the top talent because they PAY, there aren't any good ones that interrogate the genre, the nature of fiction, or the experience of life. THAT is what's nuts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02667052712057873910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-31059166627191115232008-08-07T19:58:00.000-04:002008-08-07T19:58:00.000-04:00Yup. Exactly.Yup. Exactly.Timothy Callahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04078183191900311833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-5133210427830012342008-08-07T15:48:00.000-04:002008-08-07T15:48:00.000-04:00Define what you mean by "aren't written well."The ...<I>Define what you mean by "aren't written well."</I><BR/><BR/>The usual suspects... clumsy and laborious dialogue, poorly executed exposition, uneven pacing.<BR/><BR/>That being said, it's not as if "literary comics" are immune to the same things. If anything, the lack of professional polish, effective editing, and practiced craft in many self-published/indie "literary comics" results in some particularly awkward reads (although I guess to fans of the "literary comics" genre, this is part of its quirky appeal). <BR/><BR/>I guess what I'm saying is that bad writing in superhero comics is no different from bad writing in "literary comics," or bad writing in fiction, television and movies, both in its distribution (Sturgeon's Law a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation liberally applies in all cases) and its core deficiencies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-64542650828354053072008-08-07T15:15:00.000-04:002008-08-07T15:15:00.000-04:00Oh, and I forget to mention that the greatest poem...Oh, and I forget to mention that the greatest poem of the 20th century was the result of a collaboartion: <I>The Waste Land</I>. Without Ezra Pound's arrangement of Eliot's writing, it would not have been nearly as fantastic.Chad Nevetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11785622045733202883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-80577239365487358562008-08-07T10:30:00.000-04:002008-08-07T10:30:00.000-04:00Define what you mean by "aren't written well."Define what you mean by "aren't written well."Timothy Callahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04078183191900311833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-48735622309543681922008-08-07T06:47:00.000-04:002008-08-07T06:47:00.000-04:00A lot of good ideas and observations in your new c...A lot of good ideas and observations in your new column, but in my opinion, the primary reason superhero comics get a bad rap (as opposed to "literary comics") is because a number of them just aren't written very well, regardless of any genre expectations. The biases you list magnify the extent of the perception that superhero books are poorly written, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-51931697564541371012008-08-07T01:17:00.000-04:002008-08-07T01:17:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Cameron Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653459806394041179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-23159198895528056652008-08-06T23:42:00.000-04:002008-08-06T23:42:00.000-04:00Comics don't have faces... I mean, maybe a drawing...Comics don't have faces... I mean, maybe a drawing of one, but...Chad Nevetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11785622045733202883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-12311756171678208112008-08-06T22:29:00.000-04:002008-08-06T22:29:00.000-04:00Oh, wait, you agree with me?Just wait till my "In ...Oh, wait, you agree with me?<BR/><BR/>Just wait till my "In Defense of Punching Joe Casey's Crappy Comics in the Face" entry.Timothy Callahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04078183191900311833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22842788.post-66216045299452345972008-08-06T21:53:00.000-04:002008-08-06T21:53:00.000-04:00Good column, but I was already in agreement with i...Good column, but I was already in agreement with its central thesis, so... You don't spend as much time discussing the work of Joe Casey as I have without considering superhero comics literature.Chad Nevetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11785622045733202883noreply@blogger.com