Crossed: Family Values #4

[history79]

NEWSARAMA: David, tell us why you agreed to write a Crossed tale?

DAVID LAPHAM: For the fame, the cash, and the negatives. Also, I felt I was repressed by all the happy comics I write and needed an outlet.




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Comments

[informationgeek]

"For the fame, the cash, and the negatives. Also, I felt I was repressed by all the happy comics I write and needed an outlet."

Well I'll give you one thing. This wasn't a happy experience and there were a lot of negatives. ;)

[tugrul]

Ha ha!

I wonder where "all the happy comics" are. I want to find them.

[q99]

Maybe it's just happy in the relative sense. "Another Titan Dies!" is light fair compared to this stuff!

What was it someone said about the progressivism of the Bronze Age

[chortles81]

Versus industry writers learning all the wrong lessons from Dark Knight Returns / the Reagan years in general...?

[veleda_k]

That was pretty much my thought. The big two are always finding new ways to make their protagonists unhappy, and "the evil that men do" is super common theme among independent comics.

It's not that there are no happy comics. Boom is putting out several, and Marvel seems to be warming up to the idea, to an extent. (There's certainly more examples, but I only know what I'm reading.) But happy comics aren't exactly chocking the marketplace. But somehow everyone treats, "In this comic people are JERKS to each other!" as some revolutionary concept.

[q99]

-But somehow everyone treats, "In this comic people are JERKS to each other!" as some revolutionary concept.-

Enough that other people often treat *happy* comics like a breath of fresh air. Remember the MLP comics hitting around 100k initially?

[reveen]

I can definitely understand being burned out writing positive things and wanting a creative outlet for his negativity. But he could have chosen a more creative and interesting way to do it.

[sagrada]

Do people just not understand what "repressed" means? Because everyone seems to have somehow gotten to thinking it means "suppression, super-bad edition".

You consciously SUPPRESS dissent, you unconsciously REPRESS memories of that time you ate at Jane's.

[bradygirl_12]

I had to laugh at the quote about happy comics. There are happy comics? ;)

Yeah, I know there are some, but you gotta squint!