Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was interviewed recently by the San Jose Mercury News:
Love and Rockets was not only a revolution in comics, it was a revolution in Latino letters. It was the first time that people were writing about the kind of Latinos that I grew up with where being a Latino was a given. What we really drew or what compelled us in our lives was who we were dating, the music we were listening to, the problems we were getting into.
Do you think some day somebody will say “Final Crisis changed my life”?
Yeah. I thought not.
September 16th, 2008 at 8:29 am
“Do you think some day somebody will say “Final Crisis changed my life”?”
Was anyone saying that it will?
September 16th, 2008 at 9:35 am
While not in the league of Love & Rockets–you could maybe name a dozen comics in history that are–Final Crisis is a very good, weird comic. And who knows? And who cares?
September 16th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I don’t get the swipe at Final Crisis. Weren’t you the one going on about how great Guardians of the Galaxy is? And Rocket Raccoon? Do you think anyone’s going to be looking back at them in 20 years and talking about how they changed lives?
If that’s the criteria for a good comic, then your bookshelves must be awfully vacant.
September 16th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
What the Hell was the point of that Final Crisis snipe?
September 16th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
“LOVE AND ROCKETS changed his life
Do you think some day somebody will say FINAL CRISIS changed my life?”
Nice comparison