"see, readers have to be able to see who the man is in the scene right away and since superheroes don't wear skirts, well..."
I - oh, my BRAIN. I think I just sprained something in there. And, oh, ART SPEIGELMAN said this? Now I've sprained my heart, too. OUCH.
It's just, yeah, that's my experience too, and I love comics and it makes me insane with frustration and rage.
Vent away! Obviously I did.
My own reaction is different. You know that well-that-killed-the-love feeling you get when a fandom just fails you? That first round of comic book store angst was my first real experience with that. (Before, I'd been a solo fan, sure, but of things like I, Robot and P.G. Wodehouse's novels and the complete works of Enid Blyton and so on. Things that were, you know, DONE.) It's the only time I've had the love killed by third parties.
Like I said - I loved comic books. But I just couldn't love them enough.
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I - oh, my BRAIN. I think I just sprained something in there. And, oh, ART SPEIGELMAN said this? Now I've sprained my heart, too. OUCH.
It's just, yeah, that's my experience too, and I love comics and it makes me insane with frustration and rage.
Vent away! Obviously I did.
My own reaction is different. You know that well-that-killed-the-love feeling you get when a fandom just fails you? That first round of comic book store angst was my first real experience with that. (Before, I'd been a solo fan, sure, but of things like I, Robot and P.G. Wodehouse's novels and the complete works of Enid Blyton and so on. Things that were, you know, DONE.) It's the only time I've had the love killed by third parties.
Like I said - I loved comic books. But I just couldn't love them enough.