Cool; I'm going to go check out the discussion right now.
I like that you point out the action-in-the-gutters thing. I guess we've both read our McCloud :-)
I'm glad you enjoyed my painful little book! Seriously, some of the negative mentions I've seen seem to have wanted the Happy Ending, complete with some sort of last-minute save of 9/11. To which I can only say "I'm sorry WTF?!?" That was the first thing I discarded; it would have been incredibly cheap.
That was the first thing I discarded; it would have been incredibly cheap.
You may have already seen my Buffistas post by now, but I think that I may have said the same thing practically verbatim ("incredibly cheap," that is).
Granted, the fact that I know you (in an Internet-y way) predisposed me to feel VERY sure that 9/11 would mess with the All-Stars horribly, versus some cheesy Superman Defeats Hitler-type move. From what I know of you, that's not the type of narrative cop-out that you would choose.
Plus, it's fairly clear from the very beginning that this isn't a book about "superheroes"; it's a book about ordinary people -- I almost said "kids," because now that I'm many years on the other side of college, they surely ARE still kids, in a way -- who have to figure out how to deal with, well, with superpowers.
It's not a book about the freaking JLA.
I like that you point out the action-in-the-gutters thing. I guess we've both read our McCloud :-)
Heh. I haven't read McCloud, although I know of his book. I have a co-worker who's also a comics fan, and I think he was the one who first introduced me to the phrase "between the panels."
But really, I thought its use was *very* effective on your part.
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Date: 2008-07-12 07:12 pm (UTC)Cool; I'm going to go check out the discussion right now.
I like that you point out the action-in-the-gutters thing. I guess we've both read our McCloud :-)
I'm glad you enjoyed my painful little book! Seriously, some of the negative mentions I've seen seem to have wanted the Happy Ending, complete with some sort of last-minute save of 9/11. To which I can only say "I'm sorry WTF?!?" That was the first thing I discarded; it would have been incredibly cheap.
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Date: 2008-07-12 07:35 pm (UTC)You may have already seen my Buffistas post by now, but I think that I may have said the same thing practically verbatim ("incredibly cheap," that is).
Granted, the fact that I know you (in an Internet-y way) predisposed me to feel VERY sure that 9/11 would mess with the All-Stars horribly, versus some cheesy Superman Defeats Hitler-type move. From what I know of you, that's not the type of narrative cop-out that you would choose.
Plus, it's fairly clear from the very beginning that this isn't a book about "superheroes"; it's a book about ordinary people -- I almost said "kids," because now that I'm many years on the other side of college, they surely ARE still kids, in a way -- who have to figure out how to deal with, well, with superpowers.
It's not a book about the freaking JLA.
I like that you point out the action-in-the-gutters thing. I guess we've both read our McCloud :-)
Heh. I haven't read McCloud, although I know of his book. I have a co-worker who's also a comics fan, and I think he was the one who first introduced me to the phrase "between the panels."
But really, I thought its use was *very* effective on your part.
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Date: 2008-07-12 08:03 pm (UTC)I did see it :-) Well played!
Yeah, I really did want to keep their world very much the real world, and the characters themselves just plain ol' folks. Kids, at that.