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scans_dailyBizarrely, both League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Astro City, books known for their history of lateness and erratic scheduling, managed to come out this week. If the last issue of Planetary had come out too, I think the universe would have sunk into some abyss of improbability.
Two pages from the latest League volume, Century, follow.
Two pages from the latest League volume, Century, follow.
Or perhaps "What Vull was doing in the 1960s," if we use the name she was going by at the time...
Seeing LoEG touch on superheroes makes you realize how cool it'd be if writers applied the series's "everything is connected" approach to the DC or Marvel Universes. I know they're already shared universes, but I'm talking more about drawing as many connections as possible, wehrever they show themselves, like when Moore made Dean Moriarty from On the Road the descendant of Holmes's Moriarty.
Roy Thomas used to do this sort of thing all the time. He'd do stuff like reveal that Robin and the Golden Age Robotman (both had the last name Grayson) were relatives, or establish a connection between the villain Black Knight and the medieval adventure character of the same name. Why do so many of today's writers for the Big Two avoid making these sorts of fun connections? It's such an obvious thing to do.
Seeing LoEG touch on superheroes makes you realize how cool it'd be if writers applied the series's "everything is connected" approach to the DC or Marvel Universes. I know they're already shared universes, but I'm talking more about drawing as many connections as possible, wehrever they show themselves, like when Moore made Dean Moriarty from On the Road the descendant of Holmes's Moriarty.
Roy Thomas used to do this sort of thing all the time. He'd do stuff like reveal that Robin and the Golden Age Robotman (both had the last name Grayson) were relatives, or establish a connection between the villain Black Knight and the medieval adventure character of the same name. Why do so many of today's writers for the Big Two avoid making these sorts of fun connections? It's such an obvious thing to do.
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Date: 2009-05-07 05:09 pm (UTC)Because of continuity and the ever-lovely retcons that happen every one or two years.
It takes all the fun out of it.
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Date: 2009-05-07 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-07 06:35 pm (UTC)http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/har
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Date: 2009-05-07 06:52 pm (UTC)I think he knows what he's talking about.
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Date: 2009-05-07 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-05-07 05:31 pm (UTC)Its interesting to see Moore move into times wherein I know more characters. Obviously I knew the members of the original league, but the side references where often too obscure for me.
If Century covers the entire 20th century, I wonder what characters we'll see popping up in the later decades. Won't all the big names still be copyright protectected? Or will the LoEG-universe-1970's-and-onwards be based on those jetpack/flying car sci-fi from the first half of the century?
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Date: 2009-05-07 05:37 pm (UTC)Also gotta love that metafictional namecheck for Guntag Borghelm, the Shazam-surrogate from the original Marvelman comics (subsequently retconned by Moore himself as a fiction created by Emil Gargunza).
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Date: 2009-05-07 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-08 12:23 am (UTC)What I'm really hoping for is more info on Vull!
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Date: 2009-05-07 07:49 pm (UTC)WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME!
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Date: 2009-05-07 09:32 pm (UTC)