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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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(Anonymous)
2009-04-04 05:01 am UTC (link)

/agree with the whole thing... but quick clarification on that last bit.

I'm a writer myself. Well, perhaps more honestly, I'd like to be. Anyway, can't having a certain level of detachment from the character in order to use the character as a living idea be effective in it's own right?

Off the top of my head, I'm thinking Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho." Bateman is noteworthy for having frightened and arguably repulsed Bret Easton Ellis, as discussed in his later "Lunar Park."

Now, while I'm not refuting that Morrison is personally guilty of misusing character as idea/device... I wouldn't call that method of writing "sad."

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding you. You're a smart cookie, so that's possible too.

Cheers,
- noirsensei

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