2022-04-09

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[personal profile] thanekos2022-04-09 11:37 am

Arkham City: The Order of the World #6 is an order and its disordering.

The orderer is Professor Pyg, to whose Asylum Dr. Joy (formerly of Arkham's) and the group in her wake'd been led in #5.

Issue #6 had Dr. Joy " on staff ", observing Pyg's patients in the repurposed slaughterhouse.

Her rounds took her to Dr. Phosphorous and Nocturna.

The former was expounding. The latter was listening. )

1963 #4 - "Showdown in the Shimmering Zone!" & "Flipsville!"



Back in '63, there was a kind of boundless optimism; no matter how many anxieties or fears there might be hanging over the work, that venues into this incredible optimism—that everything was possible. That was true of the artists who were working with the form. They were experimenting. They were trying things. They were caught up in the energy and experimentation of the times. I think that perhaps in '93, there were some very good artists but it seemed like there was a kind of lack of energy. A lack of fierceness to the work, a lack of desire to push boundaries or to experiment which was there in the Sixties. -- Alan Moore

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