Friday, July 30, 2010
Grant Morrison on Fantasy
One of the many, many things Comic Book Resources posted about Comic Con was the Grant Morrison panel ("DC Focus," Friday, Jul. 23). During the panel, Morrison responded to an apparently straightforward question about the age of Batman and Robin thusly:
"It's not real! There is no science. The science is the science of 'Anything can happen in fiction and paper' and we can do anything.
"We've already got the real world. Why would you want fiction to be like the real world? Fiction can do anything, so why do people always want to say, 'Let's ground this' or 'Let's make this realistic.' You can't make it realistic because it's not."
While I do completely understand where Morrison is coming from, and I hate to read too much into an off-the-cuff convention response, I can't help but wonder if he's not missing the point a little bit by dodging the accusation that is most often leveled at him: his work is too often -- I don't want to say "intellectual," so let's say "theoretical" instead. To some of us, the quasi-reality is the escapist fantasy. To so easily dismiss that point, even to dodge an uncomfortable question at a convention, may be the same as simply dismissing his harshest critics.
No one who reads this blog thinks that Booster Gold is a real person. (I hope.) But the quantification of the trivial elements of a fictional character is a large part of the enjoyment of reading DC Comics for at least myself, and I suspect many others. No offense intended to Mr. Morrison, who has indeed written some very enjoyable stories over the years, but to flippantly write-off our devotion to an artificial reality as a misguided fantasy, I think, indicates the flaws in Morrison's approach to mainstream American super-hero comic books.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Gold Exchange: Vanishing Point 1
Russ Burlingame has published his latest "Gold Exchange" column with Dan Jurgens discussing Vanishing Point #1 on Newsarama.com. As always, Burlingame's questions draw some illuminating answers from Jurgens about the events and characters in his latest story (How does Michelle feel about being Goldstar? Whatever happened to the Linear Men? Will we see more Tyrannosauruses?) But the biggest news in this article is the announcement of the new Dan Jurgens website, DanJurgens.com. Congratulations to Jurgens for finally establishing a solid web presence disseminating news of his many, many activities.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
New Release: JL Generation Lost #6
Think about it this way: with today's release of Justice League: Generation Lost #6, we're almost at the quarter point of the series! Maybe it's just me, but it still seems like this story is just getting started. That's probably a good thing, as I clearly want more. Buy it and make Skeets happy.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Big Booster Gold News from Comic Con
On Sunday at the Smallville panel, Geoff Johns told the world that Booster Gold and Blue Beetle (and Skeets!) will be on Smallville this season. (See a review of news from the panel at Newsarama.com.) Johns, in an interview with Comic Book Resources (viewable here), says that the Smallville Booster will be "very Booster-Gold-y." I have no idea what that means, but I expect good things.
Johns' affinity for the character is well documented. He will no doubt treat the character right. Johns-written episodes of Smallville have gotten good press and high viewership, so signs point to this episode having a good chance of introducing a whole new generation to the character of Booster Gold a la "The Greatest Story Never Told." What's the chance that Booster gets called "Green Lantern" at least once?
We'll keep an eye out for casting news and air dates for Booster's live-action debut.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
1, 2, 3, 4, Can I Add a Little More?
1. While everyone else was paying attention to some convention in southern California, Boosterrific.com added a timeline of Booster's adventures here. (I'm not ignoring the Booster Gold news out of Comic-Con; I'll get to that tomorrow. I promise.)
2. I'd like to offer a big blog thanks to Shag of onceuponageek.com, for graciously allowing me to use his images of the DC promotional button for Dan Jurgens' Justice League. I didn't even know it existed before I found it on his blog. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what the internet is for: learning cool stuff from someone who knows more than you do.
3. The script error that caused no poll to show most of Friday has been corrected. That shouldn't happen again. (I blame it on programmer error. And I wrote the damn thing.)
4. I've decided that they are releasing way too many Booster Gold comics -- blasphemy! I just can't get them into the database fast enough! For the next few months, while Booster Gold, JL:GL, and TM:VP are coming out, I may at times be a little slow in getting the issues up on the site. Please have patience; a guy's gotta earn a living.
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