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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-16 21:05:00

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creator: bill willingham, creator: mark buckingham, creator: matthew sturges, publisher: vertigo comics, title: fables

The Great Fables Crossover, Part 3
Kevin Thorn, god of the Fables universe, has decided to reboot the whole thing and start from scratch. Unfortunately for him (and fortunately for the Fables cast), he needs to decide what the new universe will be like before he can begin, and he can't do that because he's afflicted with a bout of writer's block.

So, for inspiration, he turns to some of his relatives. I believe you know them as Genres.

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	gbone 2009-05-17 02:07 am UTC (link)
	I love the space man. (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-05-17 08:15 am UTC (link)
	As manifestations of cliché they are pretty impressive! Love "Scary little girl" Horror (Reply to this)

	espanolbot 2009-05-17 08:37 am UTC (link)
	I dig semi-Ayn Rand woman. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	filbypott 2009-05-17 09:07 am UTC (link)
	She looks like Ayn Rand but talks like Gloria Steinem. Who of course would fight to the death if they were put in a room together. I think she's supposed to be a generically annoying intellectual. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	broblawsky 2009-05-17 10:58 am UTC (link)
	She's Literature. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	filbypott 2009-05-18 04:00 am UTC (link)
	I know. I just mean in terms of her personality. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Who would win? proteus_lives 2009-05-18 01:07 pm UTC (link)
	Ayn "Ravage" Rand or "Glorious" Gloria Steinem? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Who would win? filbypott 2009-05-18 02:50 pm UTC (link)
	Assuming they were both in their prime when they went at it? Rand, the goddamn madwoman, would rip Steinem's head off. And possibly eat Steinem to consume her strength. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	greenmask 2009-05-17 10:52 am UTC (link)
	The spaceman is adorable. (But the women get child victim, sexy playing-victim, fantasy and tl;dr with mention of feminism? BOOO) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-05-17 01:11 pm UTC (link)
	I think that it's was meant to be a riff on creepy children in horror fiction, like Damian Thorn in the Omen films and that chick from the Exorcist. Not a kid traumatised by the horror, but the horror that does the traumatising. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-05-17 01:32 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah but the girl in the exorcist, at least, was possessed (i.e. still a victim of demonic influence). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-05-17 05:13 pm UTC (link)
	The spaceman is adorable. BUZZ LIGHTYEAR! :D (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-05-17 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	His name is MRS NESBIT! (That's my favourite line in the whooole movie.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ninjapeps 2009-05-18 12:06 am UTC (link)
	the little girl is Horror, not a child victim. which is actually really appropriate given how creepy little girls (or children in general) can be when done right. I have a really hard time seeing Romance as a guy. seems proper that Romance would be a femme fatale. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-05-18 12:52 am UTC (link)
	The question of the horrorchild aside, femme fatales are really not that usual in romance, actually. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	filbypott 2009-05-18 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	Romance is Fabio. (Reply to this) (Parent)

besamim
2009-05-17 12:47 pm UTC (link)

I like the Groucho-esque Humour personification and the "duh duh" Action anthropomorph the best. As for Marxist-Feminist Postmodernism, that's just Willingham being Willingham I guess... *eyeroll*

Seems to me though that since Kevin Thorn's world already rests, broadly, within the fantasy genre, maybe that's the genre he should be sticking with? Although perhaps there should be two Fantasy personifications, one the fair-folk sort we see in the second scan and one the orc-slaying warrior type.

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	espanolbot 2009-05-17 01:14 pm UTC (link)
	Who's that guy with the sheet on his head in the "...narrow" panel meant to be? I'd guess ghost stories, though that's probably a horror subsection and it's too small. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	interrobamf 2009-05-17 02:27 pm UTC (link)
	Mystery? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ninjapeps 2009-05-18 12:07 am UTC (link)
	that's Mystery. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	filbypott 2009-05-18 04:02 am UTC (link)
	Uh... who's the guy drooling in the corner? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ninjapeps 2009-05-18 06:14 am UTC (link)
	no clue. he's constantly been showing up wherever Kevin is so the drooling guy is obviously linked to him somehow. I figure it's probably an extension of himself or something like that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	comicoz 2009-05-18 07:44 am UTC (link)
	He's also the one person Kevin doesn't seem to be able to change (or perhaps, even see?), as he wipes out several scenes in this book and the drooler is stull there while everyone else is gone/changed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

(Anonymous)
2009-05-18 07:57 am UTC (link)

I appear to be old and alone in loving the appearances of Macho Loner Integrity--i.e., Bogart and the Duke. However I was snarkily pleased at the characterization of Literature, specifically Literature in Academé. Honest to Rao, I work with a guy who talks just like that! And if it weren't a waste of time--since they seem to replicate geometrically-- I would cheerfully strangle each and every clone of him. But really, what you've got there is "Lit-rah-chuh," with deconstruction and literary analysis and post-modernism and all that rot . . . which really is only a small part of *real* literature, which includes Mickey Spillane, Max Brand, Cole Porter, Lee, Kirby . . . and "Fables."

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	proteus_lives 2009-05-18 01:08 pm UTC (link)
	I'm with S.F.! (Reply to this)