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merseybeatler ([info]merseybeatler) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-04 18:25:00

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Current mood: MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHIN
Current music:David Bowie "The Heart's Filthy Lesson"
Entry tags:char: matthew cable, char: matthew the raven, char: the corinthian, publisher: vertigo comics, title: archie, title: sandman, title: the sandman presents

The Corinthian: Death In Venice (plus some junk)
The Corinthian is, well, so fucking creepy. I don't even know where to begin. Seriously, I haven't had that many nightmares about a fictional character since kindergarten (about, er, Captain Hook!). Obviously, though, that was the intention. :P
Anyway, I've decided to start reading as many of the Sandman spinoffs as I can find, beginning with Gaiman's Death miniseries which I posted earlier. The Corinthian: Death In Venice is written by Darko Macan and illustrated by Danijel Zezelj (??) and was, frankly, quite disappointing. Not scary at all. It seemed to be trying to channel Ann Rice, but failing. HE EVEN LOOKS LIKE BRAD PITT. 
 
Without further ado, scans:



This next is a splash page so it's hard to scan....



The Corinthian escaped the Dreaming by possessing the body of a shell-shocked soldier (Stefen Wasserman), a comrade of Charles Constantine, who Constantine was unable to kill. For whatever reason, The Corinthian decided that it was his new mission to haunt Constantine and force him to kill him. There's really not too much in the way of explaination for that.


In the next issue, he corners Charles...whose wife (the flapper chick) apparently believes herself the incarnation of Pestilence and insists on being treated as a different woman every day of the week. She's also got a boytoy named Amedeo.






The Corinthian posesses Amedeo's body and pairs up with Pestilence. They (presumably) have naked time before running off to a masquerade...it's Venice, after all. It's all about masks and murder (and pigeons).




She does. The Corinthian then kills her ("Still...being no one will be better than being me," she says, and offers no resistance) and runs about happily for a while killing off a few of the other minor characters and rejoicing in his puberty.... 

Then he's successfully killed by Charles Constantine, and comes back in yet another body.

The storytelling beggar guy recounts the real story behind his missing eye, in what's probably the most disturbing sequence of the issue:


Ahh! And he wraps his narration with this:
"This is how I learned the story, signore--through a dead eye of a living man."

....And THAT, my friends, is how The Corinthian got his (rather awesome) name. Is that lame or what? It makes Puck's comment from the Kindly Ones (something like "are you named after the people, the verses, the leather, the pillars, or the mode of behavior?") seem pointless, especially if you consider that 'corinthian' is essentially a synonym for 'licentiousness' and actually tells you something relevent about his character. Besides, Morpheus is the lord of stories - you'd assume he'd come up with a name as fitting for one of his creations as a Dickens character. So I'm just going to tell myself that the blind guy here (Leo) was actually picking up on The Corinthian's innate corinthian-ness and not simply naming him after a fucking marble pillar.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING MARGINALLY DIFFERENT:


The Corinthian 2.0 is freaking awesome. He still kills people and eats their eyeballs, sure, but he's not entirely evil and provides a surprising amount of comic relief for a monster. He and Matthew are, like, my favorite team-up ever. "It was like a bad TV show - he's a reincarnated serial killer. His partner's a bird. They're cops." ....I would so watch that show!


This is what you get when you look up The Sandman on Uncyclopedia.org:

*snickers*

And finally, one of my own doodles, done after watching Pan's Labyrinth last week:

While the Pale Man is certainly creepy, he's not exactly much of a threat...even if you're stupid enough to wake him up, he just kind of staggers after you groaning. Once you consider that he's effectively blind the moment he grabs hold of you, he kind of loses his edge.
There.


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[info]fungo_squiggly
2009-08-04 10:54 pm UTC (link)
I like the doodle.

Suggested alt text: "And then he ate the Pale Man's eyes."

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[info]merseybeatler
2009-08-04 10:57 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! I dunno, they were pretty nasty looking eyes. Probably about as appetizing as a peeled grape that's been lying on the basement floor for a week or so.

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[info]icon_uk
2009-08-04 11:21 pm UTC (link)
Yes, that's a ridiculous reason for his name, especially as the Corinthian had his name at least before Dreams imprisonment, and possible a couple of centuries before that (I can't recall if he's refered to by name as far back as that, but he does accompany Dream during the 18th(?) century). A Corinthian is just a name given to someone prone to luxury, a bon vivant as it were.

I've written the Corinthian in fanfic (a Batman and Robin one I must finish some year or other) and he's a character I find incredibly uncomfortable to write. I CAN write him, but I want to scrub my skin raw with carbolic soap afterwards because he's just so... fucking creepily grotesque.

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[info]merseybeatler
2009-08-04 11:41 pm UTC (link)
Ew, I can imagine! He's such an utterly sick character...scary enough to read about, certainly, but writing him? I'd feel filthy in a not-remotely-good-way. (Speaking of which, I think I may have come across your fanfic before - if it's the one I'm thinking of, I couldn't bring myself to read it.) Which is odd - I enjoy being freaked out as much as the next...um, nightmare fuel station attendant, but Corinthian 1.0 makes me want to hide in a corner and cry. Fuck, my skin is already crawling.

Corinthian 2.0, though, I like - though I haven't read anything with him in it outside of the cannon Sandman series.

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[info]btravage.livejournal.com
2009-08-05 02:27 am UTC (link)
It could also imply a thespian (ironic considering the origin of that word) or a homosexual, or the closest ancient Greek analogue, if I remember my History right.

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[info]ex_menagerie993
2009-08-04 11:30 pm UTC (link)
I loved that series, and the Corinthian in general. I guess I always have a thing for those with *odd* habits when it comes to body modification. ;)

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[info]darklorelei
2009-08-05 02:02 am UTC (link)
AUGH AUGH AUGH THE CORINTHIAN.


That is all.

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[info]sandoz_iscariot
2009-08-05 02:50 am UTC (link)
For some reason, I really want a Corinthian story by Clive Barker.

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[info]proteus_lives
2009-08-05 04:10 am UTC (link)
Christ, that would be the perfect combo of character and writer!

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[info]proteus_lives
2009-08-05 04:10 am UTC (link)
Awesome!

The Corinthian deserves his own HBO series!

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[info]red_cyclone
2009-08-05 06:13 am UTC (link)
I love the Corinthian, but yeah, that was not so good, which is why it is one of the very, very few Sandman related things I don't own, this does not make me want to seek it out.
Talking of detective series - I'd love the Corinthian to hook up with the Dead Boy Detectives for a story, being ghosts they'd probably be safe from his love for eyes, but I think even after being in hell they'd be pretty creeped out by him.

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[info]grazzt
2009-08-05 02:20 pm UTC (link)
Inspired by your current mood, has anyone made a Corinthian/Corinthian victim avatar with the text "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"?

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[info]merseybeatler
2009-08-05 06:42 pm UTC (link)
....Not that I know of, but now I want one. Maybe I'll sketch one tonight.

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[info]petalsinthewind
2009-08-06 06:34 am UTC (link)
Isn't the Corinthian gay?  I could see him sleeping with that woman anyway, but, well, yay, another gay male has sex with a woman in fiction.

Haha, he is Brad Pitt in the "Scars are man's babies" panel.

I would be using my Pale Man icon if this were LJ.  As it were, I can't be bothered uploading it.

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