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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre #2
Oct. 11th, 2018 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyberghostface
(I always found the above cover baffling. Who is the woman? Why does Hoyt seem to be based off Jim Siedow over R. Lee Ermey?)
( Scans under the cut... )
Oct. 11th, 2018
cyberghostface(I always found the above cover baffling. Who is the woman? Why does Hoyt seem to be based off Jim Siedow over R. Lee Ermey?)
( Scans under the cut... )
The Wrong Earth #1 (2018)
Oct. 11th, 2018 11:22 amlaughing_tree
Earth-Omega is a place where the good guys are disillusioned and ultraviolent, the bad guys are even more violent, and the authorities are crooked. They must have had the Comics Code at one time because they seem awfully invested in violating it. -- Tom Peyer
( The main story, by Tom Peyer and Jamal Igle )
( 'Hud' Hornet's Holiday in Hell, by Grant Morrison )
laughing_tree
I haven't read any superhero comics since I finished with Watchmen. I hate superheroes. I think they're abominations. They don't mean what they used to mean. They were originally in the hands of writers who would actively expand the imagination of their nine- to 13-year-old audience. That was completely what they were meant to do and they were doing it excellently. These days, superhero comics think the audience is certainly not nine to 13, it's nothing to do with them. It's an audience largely of 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-year old men, usually men. Someone came up with the term graphic novel. These readers latched on to it; they were simply interested in a way that could validate their continued love of Green Lantern or Spider-Man without appearing in some way emotionally subnormal. This is a significant rump of the superhero-addicted, mainstream-addicted audience. I don't think the superhero stands for anything good. I think it's a rather alarming sign if we've got audiences of adults going to see the Avengers movie and delighting in concepts and characters meant to entertain the 12-year-old boys of the 1950s. -- Alan Moore
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