“Archie Gets Married and Goes to Hell”: Slate’s feminist/women’s issue blog Double X catches up with Archie’s possible-future marriages. You know, it didn’t occur to me until I saw this story, but these “Archie Marries ____” are basically Archie’s Dark Knight Returns. In a way.
I always hated Hitch’s: Maybe toss him out and put in Val Semeiks, and I can agree with Ben Morse’s “Five Favorite Martian Manhunter Artists” list 100% instead of just 80%. I do like the old Silver Age depiction of J’onn Jonn’z where he basically just look like a mostly-naked green bald guy or, as read in the black-and-white Showcase Presents collections, a naked bald guy. (Semeiks, by the way, drew J’onn in JLA: Foreign Bodies, DC One Million and the underrated JLA: Incarnations series).
To him, maybe—I seem more kids dressed as superheroes than as boys with antlers at Halloween: “Jeff Lemire On Why Superheroes and Boys with Antlers are Equally Great”
God, I hope not: “Superhero fiction: the next big thing?”
December 15th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
No, no; superhero fiction is great! Well, it can be, anyway. Look at the Wild Cards series, or Munroe’s Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask. I’ve even written some myself (best accessed here: http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2009/02/sliced-bread-2-table-of-contents.html) that some people liked.
December 15th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
yeah, I agree — I prefer comics, but there’s nothing wrong with superhero prose (isn’t it _all_ fiction?) “Black & White” and “Ex-Heroes” are good and “Soon I Will Invincible” is really good; certainly nothing worse than any typical Tom Clancy, Twilight, or Jacky Suzanne (?) airplane/beach books. There’s even the argument (IIRC) that Watchmen was inspired by some underground superhero novel from the 70s, so you could say where we are with today’s superheroes comes from prose (but that’s probably wrong).
December 15th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Semeiks was definitely under consideration, I’ll give you that (Incarnations is one of my favorite hidden gems).
As somebody pointed out to me today, I should have considered Alan Davis on JLA: The Nail alone.
December 17th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
“God, I hope not…”? soundd like you need to pick up IT’S SUPERMAN. You will believe a superhero can be novelistic..
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