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brevoortformspring answered:
You need to know the rules before you can break the rules.
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#ethics #x-men #emma frost #marvel comicsPAUL GRAVETT: My question concerned how to create works of depth in work that consciously and continuously embraces the surfaces of things.
GRANT MORRISON: Hmm. Well, I think I find my depth, paradoxically, in the surface of things. I like playing with the pure sound of word on word in my writing, or concerning myself with surface glamour. But I believe, say, The Invisibles to be a work of great emotional depths. You can read it as an action-filled philosophical wank book, or you can read it for King Mob's attempt to get over the loss of his girlfriend and the death of his cats by turning himself into a pop god with a gun.
PAUL GRAVETT: Hmm. So, on one level, The Invisibles is about a man trying to get over the death of his cats.
GRANT MORRISON: That’s right, yes. About 60% of The Invisibles was autobiographical.
PAUL GRAVETT: Now, as I recall, don’t you appear in your last issue on Animal Man and discuss the death of one of your cats?
GRANT MORRISON: Yes, in fact.
PAUL GRAVETT: I see. And isn’t The Filth, on one level, about Greg Feely possibly losing his mind while trying to care for his dying cat?
GRANT MORRISON: On one level, yes.
PAUL GRAVETT: Now, I forget. Does a cat die in Flex Mentallo?
GRANT MORRISON: No, no. I don’t have to have a cat die in order to produce a good work, Paul.
PAUL GRAVETT: So it wasn’t written after a cat had died?
GRANT MORRISON: Absolutely not.
PAUL GRAVETT: Loss of a girlfriend?
*pause*
GRANT MORRISON: Well, yes, in fact. I wrote Flex Mentallo after a bad break-up with a girlfriend.
PAUL GRAVETT: And Marvel Boy?
GRANT MORRISON: Bad break-up with a girlfriend.
PAUL GRAVETT: Your Fantastic Four miniseries? Cat or girlfriend?
GRANT MORRISON: Caring for a sick girlfriend.
PAUL GRAVETT: Did she die?
GRANT MORRISON: No, she recovered. That’s why it’s only four issues.
PAUL GRAVETT: Doom Patrol?
GRANT MORRISON: A bad break-up.
PAUL GRAVETT: With a girlfriend?
GRANT MORRISON: With a cat. It was very painful.
PAUL GRAVETT: Now, this isn’t a magic thing, is it? You’re not sacrificing your cats, or anything?
GRANT MORRISON: No, no, not at all. I love cats, Paul.
PAUL GRAVETT: As do I. As do I.
Not to be a Frankenstein apologist but if it were a choice between actually writing my essays for my degree and creating life in an act of hubris against God frankly my procrastination skills are incredibly powerful
hmmm
You BEHEAD
Marie Antoinette?
you CHOP her head like the GUILLOTINE??
OH OH CHAOS FOR FRANCE! CHAOS FOR FRANCE FOR 1000 YEARS!!!!
Anonymous asked:
🔥the Shadow
maxwell-grant answered:
I still like those comics, but in the grand scheme of things I think Denny O'Neil might have actually done a lot more harm to the character than good, because much of what I complain about in regards to how subsequent runs handled the character kinda starts with him. By his own admission, he saw the character as a fascist demigod and unsurprisingly depicted him as such, and he started the idea of The Shadow bullying and wrangling his agents, and Harry Vincent in particular, like tools. There’s room to talk about over whether O'Neil’s view was justified and I’m not even entirely denying it, that’s a charged topic for another time, I’m just saying he most definitely kicked off the ball that Chaykin and the movie and co. would later run with.
(I have an immense respect for him and love a lot that he’s done, but if nothing else I can definitely blame Denny O'Neil for completely ruining Harry Vincent’s characterization for every comic since)
Also, The Shadow (2017) by Si Spurrier and Dan Watters was a great comic and the backlash to it gets more absurd with every year. I hated it too on release, and I didn’t get what it was trying to do. I’ve reread through it several times now and, okay yeah, there’s plenty of stuff in there to criticize but also, by and large the response to it was an overblown fandom tantrum with a not-insignificant amount of racist vitrol towards the protagonist and a Pavlovian attack dog gnashing of teeth from right-wingers over the book’s politics over issue one, nobody even touched the following ones. That comic was significantly ahead of the curve and it tried to break the mediocre streak of Shadow comics and it got crucified over it.
wmb-salticidae asked:
Uber questions that aren’t the usual question!
In any case, I’ve greatly enjoyed the series and, regardless of when/whether Uber wraps up, I’m glad to have been able to read as much of it as I have.
kierongillen answered:
My success? I owe it to hard work, grit, and the funnel of human suffering that is generational wealth. I came from humble beginnings. I was born in seventeen cities at once as my dead eyed sow of a mother extruded me into the belly of a moving private jet. From there, I was raised in what could only be described as a series of private compounds where I was given literally everything my pudding-soft raw meatball of a brain could cogeal into a coherent sentence.
My family was always important to me. I would not be the man I am today without my family's proud history of owning plantations. Yes, I am so horrifically out of touch that I will proudly point to the pallid and incestuous ghouls in my hula-hoop of a family tree, slack-jawed and unaware of how utterly ashamed I should be. In fact, I may even imply that this is aspirational.
When I discovered the petrochemical extraction industry, I knew I had found my dream. My parents bribed me into the best colleges in the country, where I spent the next 20 years of my life pureeing my brain with paychoactives in a hollow attempt to squeeze even a single emotion from the bowl of pureed cauliflower that my brain has become. I graduated top of my class because my parents donated a parking lot.
When I saw my first oil derrick, I experienced something deeper than sexual arousal; a nigh-prophetic sub-primal sensation beating like a drum against my limbic system. I knew it was my destiny to combine the unfathomable violence of my predecessors with the sterile efficiency of late-capitalism. I experienced a waking dream of tar sands packed with writhing human bodies, the turning spear of the derrick thrust into them like the hungry ovipositor of a tarantula hawk wasp.
In order to realize my dream, I knew that I would have to produce neoconservative propaganda videos for children, and post them on YouTube. It is for this reason that I am PROUD to present: Why The Demonic Left Wants To Take Your Sweets And Cakes.
i mean the Animorphs didn’t get rid of the pain of being a man. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like I understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did not get rid of the pain of being a man.
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