Comments on: Variations on a Theme…

By: Johan Åberg

Johan Åberg — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:36:38 +0000

Since when is it wrong to kill fictional characters? They’re not real people. I say we kill them all. Fictious bastards, with their eternal lives and their make-out parties…

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:06:27 +0000

Didn’t they do this on Lois & Clark or something? Or was it that all the bride did was eat a frog? I don’t remember anymore…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:02:30 +0000

Green Arrow + Death = Suck
(Sorry that’s as much as I can wrestle up right now).

By: Tuckenie (Vallen C. Tucker)

Tuckenie (Vallen C. Tucker) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:49:02 +0000

Wow Cole. I think you just blew my hair back a little.

By: Kwaku

Kwaku — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:14:26 +0000

I wasn’t directing that at you or Variations. Sorry it came out like that.
I’m just hopelessly optimistic and tend to see the good more than the bad. There is a lot of good going on in comics but we focus on the bad.(God, I sound like Fox news).

Anyway.. I like Variations, you present both sides of the argument and almost never includes your own opinions.

By: Cole Moore Odell

Cole Moore Odell — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:15:00 +0000

It’s amazing how many people talking about comics online have apparently never read comics before. For those of you who complain in 2007 that a superhero comic has people acting out of character, characters being subservient to nonsensical plots, or the titular hero seemingly dying in a big last page cliffhanger, I have a giant, moldering stack of comics for you by Bob Kanigher, Bob Haney, Stan Lee, John Broome, Gardner Fox, Marv Wolfman, Chris Claremont, Roy Thomas, Bill Mantlo, Cary Bates…I’d keep typing but my finger hurts.

The Green Arrow/Black Canary wedding comics, which I just read in a batch yesterday, are filled with all kinds of sex and violence twisted together in a way that almost makes me wonder how the fuck the superhero industry got to this point. I say “almost” because it’s pretty obvious how we got here, but these books had enough debased banality to make me forget for a minute.

That said, one could make the argument, were one so inclined, that “someone dies” is really the only story there is, and that every other plot is just stalling to avoid that inevitable conclusion. What was it Orson Welles said about happy endings? It depends where you stop telling the story.

By: Kallaj

Kallaj — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:15:57 +0000

You’re gonna hate every writer for a bad idea they considered then decided was a bad idea and didn’t use, you’re gonna hate all writers ever.

Or is the idea just that writers aren’t supposed to admit what their early ideas were like in public?

By: Melissa Krause

Melissa Krause — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:31:32 +0000

I wish the books that people say they do like would get half as much attention as this.

Variations focuses on topics that have, as implied by the name, varied responses. Feel free to give attention to books you like, perhaps it will get noticed.

By: Kwaku

Kwaku — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:19:04 +0000

I wish the books that people say they do like would get half as much attention as this.

By: Tired

Tired — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:04:36 +0000

And now the problem is that a woman character MIGHT have been killed, not that she actually was killed.

Are people still “baffled?”

By: Ryan Higgins

Ryan Higgins — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:03:09 +0000

I think people take this crap way too seriously.