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Comment on WRITING COMICS THE GERARD WAY by Ladyloki

Ladyloki — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:30:12 +0000

The Umbrella Academy is a beautifully written and drawn series, and although I had never heard of Gabriel Ba before reading this, he is now a hero of mine. As for Gerard Way… I believe he’s potentially a grfeat comic writer, but what’s stopped a lot of people picking up Academy is the fact that he is unjustly labelled as King Emo, and comic fans may not realsie he’s capable of more than bleaching his hair and wearing a lot of black.

I think what irritates me most however is that The Daily Mail etc do view him as a threat to Our Kids, whereas he has always spoken out against self harm and other so-called ‘emo’ stereotypical behaviours. I’d like to see them conduct a proper, open interview with him and then apologise publicly for labeling him the Pied Piper of self harm and teen suicide.

Comment on CLOCKING ON TO CLOCKING OFF by Ladyloki

Ladyloki — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:22:18 +0000

I too have been catching up with the DVD of Clocking Off lately. Each character has their part to play and there’s no ‘filler’, no spear carriers or random background artistes who we never get to hear much about. For just six shows, there’s more character development than in five years of Eastenders.

Comment on THAT’S THE WAY TO DO IT… BUT HOW MANY OTHER WAYS? by Far Away

Far Away — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:08:37 +0000

Cassavetes I love. This one and A Woman Under the Influence particularly..

Comment on AGAINST SERIAL KILLING AS A PERFORMANCE ART by grant

grant — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:21:42 +0000

>>I’m wondering what it says about our society that such tales are as popular as they are.<<

Well, I’m one of those guys who has a full deck of serial killer trading cards, so I’ve thought a lot about this. I think there are two things.

One: serial killers represent an extreme - like pioneers, saints and plumbers, they go places ordinary people only wonder about. This is interesting, in a way.

Two: the fictional serial killer artist (the only real serial killer who came close to this is Zodiac, as far as I can tell, and him only because he liked writing codes) fills the same function as conspiracy theory. It’s a way of A. allowing a storyteller to tell a grotesque story and B. assigning meaning and structure to something horrible. Bad things happen. It must be according to some plan, mustn’t it?

I haven’t seen any of the recent torture porn series (unless you want to count Audition, which might have launched the genre), but part of the thing with Se7en is that there was a sense of sin and retribution. Of justice, really. Same with Hannibal - the movie embodies an un-sublimated wish for the coarse and ignorant to suffer and die. And wish fulfillment, I suppose, loops back to rationale One, above. Well, if KEVIN SPACEY can do it, can’t I?

Comment on CARRY ON TERENCE by James

James — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:06:41 +0000

I completely agree with you here. I once attended a special screening of Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution (not a great film) where the Producer (previously of East is East) and Director did a Q&A at the end. The Producer ranted on forever about how she was leaving the film industry because British audiences won’t go and see British films because they don’t look like American films. Which to an extent I think is true, a lot of British films do look like crap, and the American’s really know how to light their films, even their independents. But I also disagree with her and think story is a huge factor. A lot of the British film industry appears to be geared towards producing films that say something about us as a nation, films which reflect our culture. To me this seems like the wrong way to go about things, surely stories should be what they encourage, as through stories culture emerges. If we concentrated on good stories, well told and well made, I think we’d be doing a lot better.

Comment on WHAT GENRE IS YOUR STREET ON? by Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:23:12 +0000

As William Gibson (a science fiction writer whose fictional settings are more and more indistinguishable from the present day) has said on many an occasion:

“the future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed”.

Comment on FEEDBACK: THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS by Ladyloki

Ladyloki — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:48:01 +0000

I am disappointed to hear this. I know it’s taken you into areas that you’ve perhaps not explored fully before, and I am really pleased to read the comments above about learning loads from the experience. All the same… arsebiscuits.

Onwards…

Comment on WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW, KNOW WHAT YOU WRITE, WRONG OR RIGHT? by Elinor

Elinor — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:15:05 +0000

I agree. Writing what you know is one thing but writing what you feel passionate about quite another. You have to talk with some authority but if you feel passionate about your subject that will come through I think.

Comment on MAGICAL MYSTERY DETOUR by Big Harry

Big Harry — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:30:18 +0000

The ‘brown bound encyclopedias’ are still around in the very unlikely
event of you needing to fill shelf space!

Comment on BOYS AND THEIR TOYS by grant

grant — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:48:15 +0000

I think there’s a thing with Iron Man that (not having seen the film yet) might get overlooked, and that’s that he’s essentially using a pacemaker + wheelchair as a weapon. In other words, the real trauma at the heart of Iron Man is literal - he’s got a wounded heart. As a mythic figure, Tony Stark kind of has to be a little like MODOK, a big, powerful brain trapped by the limitations of a clunky, malfunctioning body. There’s something Reichian about it, you know? The wounded Self encased in armor? I’ve never been that much of an Iron Man fan, but that’s how I’d write him.