Oh no, Grant Morrison!

[neotoma]

I am so glad the Final Crisis mini is over. It apparently makes no sense whatsoever, so I can pick and choose the bits that are interesting, and ignore the patented Grant Morrison wtf-ery.

You know, the sad thing is that while I think DC Comics (and Marvel, too) is in a rut and could use a good shake-up, being mysterious and mystical and 'only special people can understand my art' is just fucking ANNOYING.

If you want mysterious, mystical, and meta-fictional, Promethea by Alan Moore is the way to go. It's an incredibly well-written, literate story that works on several different levels, and never strike the adolescent pose of 'my art is too *deep* for you Philistines to understand'.

So I'm going back to writing my after-Final-Crisis Flash/JSA story without any guilt and a certain belief that my story will be more coherent than the current comics canon, while fending off plot bunnies where James Jesse comes back in the only available body at the time -- as a twelve year old girl (he'd have a ball with it, and make everyone call him Trixie, but it would be pure ridiculousness...)

Comments

[marag.livejournal.com]

Did you see the Newsarama interview where Morrison explained that he ignored Wonder Woman, well, I couldn't figure out his reasons, exactly, but I'm pretty sure they boiled down to "Icky woman!!!!"?

I think wabbitseason posted the link and I know my blood pressure went up about 10 points.

I'm so glad I haven't been buying Final Crisis. Whew.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Well, he basically said he didn't know how to write her and that she was basically 'not a woman'.

Funny, Kurt Busiek isn't having any trouble writing Wonder Woman over on Trinity (http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/tag/trinity).

[marag.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that's the one. Besides the profanity, all I can say is "What a maroon."

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

And I found a quote from an interview last year: I think of it like dance music, and how they just took pop music to a place where there was nothing left but the bass and the drum and the build-up and release, and I kind of wanted a comic that would throw out all the boring conversations and fights and keep only the stuff I like to read. (http://speedforce.org/2008/08/quote-of-the-day/)

He doesn't seem to realize that dance music *sucks* as music, and thus comics stripped down in the same manner to just a few element will also suck. What an idiot.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Yes, dance music is for dancing, not for listening. And...

::headdesk to infinity:: I really do not like this man. He did some okay JLA stuff, but even that was difficult to understand because he had a tendency to skip that whole tedious explanation thing.