Mar 24
Housekeeping
Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2013 by Paul in x-axis
Just a reminder that, as previously mentioned, we’re taking a week off. We’ll be back next weekend. Or maybe Monday. More likely Monday.
Just a reminder that, as previously mentioned, we’re taking a week off. We’ll be back next weekend. Or maybe Monday. More likely Monday.
Might as well use the Space. So… Angela. Who’s excited? Who doesn’t care?
Anything involving Gaiman can only be good.
I was not really a fan of Eternals or that Batman thing a couple years ago.
Conversely, love the new neverwhere bbc 4 radio adaptation.
If Marvel ever get around to publishing a Marvelman book, I hope to all that is holy that they opt to have Gaiman & Buckingham complete their story and then LEAVE IT AT THAT.
There’s no way Marvelman would fit the 616 Marvel U without taking away what made the character special in Moore & Gaiman’s work.
But it’s Marvel so I guess we can just brace ourselves for Brian Michael Bendis’s newest series: Marvelman, Dark Marvelman, New Marvelman, and Uncanny Marvelman Dark NOW!
Art by Greg Land on all titles.
I got a few leaked script pages which I will now share them with you all.
Micky Moran: Hey! Peter Parker, I’m Micky Moran, new reporter for The Daily Bugle.
Peter Parker: You’re the new reporter?
Micky Moran: Yeah, the new reporter.
Peter Parker: So you’re new huh?
Micky Moran: That’s what I said.
Peter Parker: That sure is a funny sounding accent you go there. I bet you’re Australian! G’day mate!
Micky Moran: I’m British actually. Say I fancy a cup of tea.
Peter Parker: Let’s go to the cafeteria and I can introduce you to my friend Ben Urich, you’ll be seeing a lot of him I bet! Just be sure you don’t leave the milk out because in America you gotta keep the milk in the fridge ya see, or else it’ll go bad.
Micky Moran: Your milk goes bad?
Peter Parker: Yeah, it goes bad.
Ben Urich (In thought box): I couldn’t believe it the day Peter brought in that English kid. If I knew then what I knew now, I’d have never believed that this kid would go on to bed more female superheroes than even the great Daredevil himself. Rumor has it that he slept with Daredevil too. I could never believe Matt Murdock would do such a thing, but then again even a blind man with super sonar senses could get weak in the knees for a god amongst men named Marvelman.
END OF ISSUE ONE. Quadruple fold-out page spread of the Daily Bugle cafeteria.
You hear the jokes about the output from the Big Two being illustrated fanfic, but Angela steps into the MU? I think I might have actually read this one before.
I don’t think its a joke.
With many creators being third or fourth generation fanboys, I think a lot of big two stories are ones creators have had in their heads since they were kids.
Rainbow lanterns would seem prime example.
“There’s no way Marvelman would fit the 616 Marvel U without taking away what made the character special in Moore & Gaiman’s work.”
The only thing that made Marvelman special was Moore and Gaiman. If Gaiman ends up guiding the character at Marvel, then you’ve still got that quality.
Never heard of her before, myself. Not too concerned with her now.
Honestly, all I’m interested in from Gaiman at present is his upcoming episode of Doctor Who.
“With many creators being third or fourth generation fanboys, I think a lot of big two stories are ones creators have had in their heads since they were kids.”
Brubaker has admitted he wanted to bring back Bucky since he read the story of Bucky’s death as a kid.
Does that diminish the quality of work he did when he finally wrote that story?
Angela’s not really much of a novel character in the MU, though; just one more “huntsman” type with a quasi-mystical background. In Spawn, she was a basic element of the book’s supernatural ecosystem, however flawed the title was.
Bringing in elements from Spawn comics, even ones created by Neil Gaiman, just seems a bit like scraping the bottom of someone else’s barrel.
“With many creators being third or fourth generation fanboys, I think a lot of big two stories are ones creators have had in their heads since they were kids.”
My favourite example: During the first couple of years of the Superboy title, there was a lot of speculation in the lettercol as to who Superboy was a clone of (since we knew it wasn’t Superman, because he couldn’t be cloned). Shortly before the annual revealed that Cadmus Director Westfield would only ever consider making a superpowered clone of himself, one Geoffrey Johns wrote in to say that he thought Luthor should be the kid’s clone-daddy.
Jump forward about a decade, and Johns is given the power to make his fan-theory canon even though we’d already been told it was wrong.
What’s the difference between fanfic getting shoehorned into canon by fanboys-turned-pro; and a story grown from an enduring concept seed that’s been knocking around in one’s head for years?
@Si — the difference is an ad-hoc, crowd-sourced distinction based on the reaction of fans. If we read a story and say “this is a goofy 10-year-olds idea of how to advance the story,” then it’s fanfic. If we say, “that guy has good insight into the natural development of the mythos,” then it’s “an enduring concept seed,” as you put it.
I know that’s a teleological definition, and not useful to the authors prior to publishing. But I really think that’s the operative distinction.
Fanfic doesn’t need to be a pejorative term, just a description.
I usually use the phrase “officially sanctioned fan fiction” these day, which can also desscribe things in other media.
Look at the first generation of film school filmmakers like Coppola, Lucas and Scorsese, whose pictur3s were chock full of metatext and repackaged ideas/shots.
For that matter, Quentin Tarantino has arguably made a career out of fanfic.
Yeah, I thought I had mentioned QT’s use of the popular culture metatextual blender, but I took it out. :>
Tarantino is the master of the Film Remix/Mixtape although sadly, unlike Scorsese he can’t seem to inject any deeper meaning into his films aside from “Revenge is awesome” and “People with guns are badass.”
Still, at least he’s not on the level of Michael Bay, Zack Snyder who are the Ed Hardy’s of Cinema.
And at one point (Jackie Brown) QT seemed like he could make a grown up film. He’s still a master of pace, dialogue, music, and framing. But his films have become more and more empty of meaning as the years have gone by.
It’s true with QT that there is a lack of substance beneath the gloss, but the gloss is often so good that he gets away with it.
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