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Aug 9 11 9:15 PM
BillyBatson4360 wrote:fubarthepanda wrote:But Moore isn't writing "Sherlock Holmes", just as he isn't writing sequels to "Dracula" or the "Invisible Man". LOEG -- like Lost Girls -- uses pre-existing characters in order to deconstruct popular preconceptions and mythologies. And Moore also took other preexisting characters - like Superman - and just wrote stories about them. This may also sound like blasphemy but I don't find LoEG to be either "transformative" or a "deconstruction of popular mythology." It was a very clever idea to cobble together some classic literary figures into a (nudge-nudge, wink-wink) super-hero team. That's all. It's brilliantly done! It's wonderfully written! I will keep purchasing their adventures as long as Mr. Moore continues to write them, but it's not much different (on a foundational level) from any well-written super-hero team book of the modern era. Clever? Yes. Well-written? Superbly so! Transformative? Not so much. Deconstruction? Not as I understand the term.
fubarthepanda wrote:But Moore isn't writing "Sherlock Holmes", just as he isn't writing sequels to "Dracula" or the "Invisible Man". LOEG -- like Lost Girls -- uses pre-existing characters in order to deconstruct popular preconceptions and mythologies.
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