Smax #4 - "4: Trip, Trip, to a Dream Dragon..."

[laughing_tree]

Comments

[beyondthefringe]

I get the feeling Alan Moore doesn't think much of Harry Potter.
(Yes, I've read League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... I KNOW he doesn't think much of Harry Potter!)

[lordultimus]

I actually enjoy this parody more than the LoEG one. Can't put my finger on why.

[deathcrist2000]

Maybe it's because it's more of a riff on the trope the Dumbledore/Harry Potter relationship falls into (see also Gandalf/Frodo) than anything specific in regards to Harry Potter.

[tcampbell1000]

LoEG, for better and for worse, is sort of a grand thesis statement on fantastic fiction, which makes it hard to enjoy when you don't agree with the thesis. Smax is less ambitious in that sense, and more open to interpretation: I can like some of the stuff it's poking at and still laugh.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Moore wrote his grand thesis with Harry Potter's thunder penis!

[deathcrist2000]

If I'm being honest, I would find the Cock Wand hilarious in a context that actually cared about the thing it was deconstructing as opposed to one that's just going "Damn kids and their damn rubbish books. Back in my day, we had good books like Dracula or King Solomon's Mines or The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg."

[locuatico]

In general terms, I find Smax as a whole to be far less mean-spirited as a parody than LoEG

[cainofdreaming]

So, this is just Moore's thinly veiled love letter to Pratchett, isn't it?

[wizardru]

Now that you say it out loud, it all comes into focus. Not sure how I missed until this point, but yeah, that's exactly what this is.

[remial]

1) make sure your powers work before you agree to be the "wizard" in a dragon killing party
2) I love the dwarves playing D&D