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espanolbot (espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-12 23:26:00

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creator: kevin smith, creator: mark millar, medium: videos, title: the ultimates

Two Comics Related Things that Amused me

Mark Millar and Kevin Smith do BBC Newsnight review, Jeanette Winterton hates all comics,
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/10/09/mark-millar-and-kevin-smith-do-bbc-newsnight-review/

And an edited together Batman vs. Blade movie trailer,

For legality, here's a supervillain attacking Ultimate Captain America with a lightsaber,

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yaseen101
2009-10-12 11:09 pm UTC (link)

"Jeanette Winterson: It’s misogynist, it’s homophobic, everyone’s a fag or a cocksucker, there’s absolutely no place for women except as cardboard cut outs, and the thing is just full of the worst kind of dripping violence, which is a kind of adrenaline injection which means you’ll utterly dead to life in its subtlety, its complexity, its possibilities of expansion of relationships. This is the kind of thing that’s the product of human emptiness "

Who is this woman? Normally I'm inclined to agree with the misogynous, sexism, over-use of violence, WiR, etc. But this just leaves me cold.

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	stolisomancer 2009-10-12 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	The article doesn't do a great job of placing the quotation in context, honestly, but she's talking rather specifically about Kick-Ass. I haven't read it since the second issue, but as the book is pretty much pure undiluted Millar, she's probably on to something there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	yaseen101 2009-10-13 12:02 am UTC (link)
	Ah that makes sense. (Reply to this) (Parent)

gargoylekitty
2009-10-13 12:05 am UTC (link)

Yeah, that she's talking about Kick-Ass, I'm inclined to agree with the quote. Actually, reading the article the whole thing seems to be extremely biased in trying to make Millar and Smith look good and the BBC look bad. I mean....

"The show hilariously pronounced Mark Millar’s name correctly, until Kevin Smith pronounced it with emphasis on the “Arr” and suddenly all of Newsnight Review joined in, as if they’d been corrected by someone who actually knew what they were talking about and they didn’t want to contradict that. Art criticism there, folks."

Of course, it couldn't possibly be because they thought he would know the right way to pronounce the name of someone he was more familiar with than them. :\

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(Anonymous)
2009-10-13 12:23 am UTC (link)

re: who she is - Jeanette Winterson is a British writer, and a pretty successful one - she was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to literature. Probably her most famous single work is "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", a semi-autobiographical story about growing up gay in a tight-knit religious community.

As is mentioned below, she's talking only about Kick-Ass in that comment, although another guest suggests that this is par for the course in comic books, which I think is a little unfair to comic books as a whole: Millar's doing something specific in KIck-Ass which is more extreme than the settings or action in other comic books.

However, she has read and enjoyed Dykes to Watch Out For and Paul Auster's City of Glass, so she's not down on all comic books. And, during the 30 minute programme, she certainly wasn't down on all the geek culture under discussion - she really enjoyed District 9, for example.

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