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What I wrote wasn't "angst". Klarion is angst, so if you don't like Germanic teen neurosis, I'm not sure how you enjoy this comic.
Dude. This was a superhero comic book. It's POP art, meant to be quickly consumed. Quit looking for meat and potatoes inside of a candybar
That's one argument, but it doesn't seem long ago that people were saying you could expect more from a comic book, even a superhero one -- that superhero comic books could give us meat, could be on the level of "literature". You're saying that because it's a superhero comic (which is open to debate anyway... the genre is more gothic horror) it's pointless to even compare it to a novel.
I know some people do feel that way, but it goes against the idea that comics could be a form of, I don't know, serious art. Am I so naive for thinking 10 mins of a Morrison comic might potentially measure up, in challenge, resonance and depth, to 10 mins of a Roth novel?
There is actually quite a lot to enjoy in this comic. A limbo town of outcast witches who have become as puritanical and consevative as their ancient persecutors, Zombies as a blue-collar slave-force, etc.
Ironic that to celebrate this comic, you do exactly what you laughed at me for -- you're trying to find "social allegory" in it. You are looking for meat in the candy bar, rather than saying hey it's just throwaway fun. The stuff you cite as "enjoyable" isn't pop bubblegum, but underlying class struggle.
Which is fine, and actually I think the comic deserves it: it does have ideas and substance, as well as great indie looks and colouring unlike anything in the DCU since Swamp Thing's "My Blue Heaven".
My channel-surfing from comic to novel threw up an interesting, and in a way disappointing contrast, that's all. |
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