Feb. 28th, 2015

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'As far as what happened in terms of the soap opera aspect of monthly comicbooks "falling out of favor"... I couldn't tell you. I think extremely influential writers in the modern era -- like Warren Ellis, in particular -- were pretty far removed from employing explicit soap opera aspects in their comicbooks, so there's that. In fact, a lot of British writers, weaned on 2000AD, would obviously steer clear of soap opera in their writing, since it wasn't something that inspired them in the first place. Not to mention, the lack of it was something they used to set themselves apart. To brand themselves as something different from what was then a true staleness in American serialized comicbooks. And it definitely worked, especially in Warren's case. And the writers that came after him -- even American ones -- followed his lead on a lot of their work.' - Joe Casey

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Wherein I bring to you the David Brin-penned series that acts somewhat like a combination of Uber and God is Dead... frankly a series that I felt had great promise, but ended up tripping over its own feet after a while.

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