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Tweak says, "Boom goes the dynamite!"

arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-02 12:25:00

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creator: grant morrison, creator: mark waid, publisher: boom!, title: irredeemable

Grant Morrison on typecasting and the Internet
The first issue of Mark Waid's new creator-owned superhero comic, Irredeemable, came out yesterday. It's about the world's greatest superhero becoming its greatest supervillain. Anyway, it has an afterword by Grant Morrison, who, in-between praising the book, discusses how society has a strong tendency to typecast not just actors but people in general, inluding writers.

Is this entry legal? Here, one page from the issue, to cover my bases --

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	xdoop 2009-04-02 06:25 pm UTC (link)
	Please. Bendis's Doom is superior to Waid's. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-04-02 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	Can't we just say that they're ALL bad, and clearly inferior to BYRNE'S Doom? Jesus Christ, when so many otherwise talented writers are making JOHN BYRNE look like the Gold Standard of writing a character in an intelligent and respectful way ... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-04-02 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	Aside from that incident w/Carol in Mighty Avengers, Bendis's Doom has been ok. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-04-02 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	Bendis' Doom is mediocre, with occasional moments of terrible. That said, it's better than the character has seen from a lot of writers. It's hard to find good Doom these days. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bruinsfan 2009-04-05 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	To be fair, for some unknown reason Byrne does seem to have a much better handle on the characterization for a megalomaniac who indulges in frequent long-winded soliloquies about his own superiority than he does for most characters he's tried his hand at... (Reply to this) (Parent)

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