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Re: BREAKING: Marvel Wins Summary Judgments In Jack Kirby Estate Rights Lawsuits
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BillyBatson4360:
"Did you even read past this point in my post?"
Yes - and I dismissed it for the reasons given to Matthew McCallum previously.
"And how about writers who aren't even known today? Alan Moore was an unknown at one time."
When he was "unknown" he was writing things like the early chapters of V for Vendetta alongside original Future Shock material. Find me more unknowns like that and I'll thank you profusely.
"And Moore also took other preexisting characters - like Superman - and just wrote stories about them."
When he was given Batman and Superman he wrote The Killing Joke and Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow. And consider his ongoing work on Captain Britain, Marvelman and Swamp Thing before and after he took over those titles. He isn't "just writing stories about them." He was
deconstructing
them (l
iterally, in at least one case)
before that was even a cool thing to do.
And again, all of this is about context. Look at what Moore was doing when he was writing pre-existing characters and consider what the industry looked like then. Now look at it today, a morass of nostalgia aimed at the handful of people still reading. I would characterize the Bendis/Brubaker Daredevil as the best, most sophisticated mainstream superhero comic of the last few years and yet it too was effectively a nostalgia exercise. Nobody is doing now what Moore did then (and continues to do). When was the last From Hell?
"This may also sound like blasphemy but I don't find LoEG to be either "transformative" or a "deconstruction of popular mythology.""
Have you reached The Black Dossier yet? Do you really still think it's about a superhero team?
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