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"He Is Content."
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numeronone
"And we go:
Who are these shadows in my way?
Who are these shadows in my way?"
― Alan Moore
( Superman Annual #11 )
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Doc has that rare gift that Darwyn Cooke, Alex Toth and Alex Raymond had — that insane ability to draw comics the way people imagine comics to be, a sort of Platonic comic ideal. If you go up to any person on the street and have them close their eyes and think of what a comic looks like, they’re seeing Doc Shaner panels. Now when we contrast those to Mitch’s signature real-world grounding of comics, it creates a delightful tension that reflects the gnawing tension at the heart of the series. -- Tom King
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I feel like all our fantasies are being crushed constantly. What we thought our country was, what we thought our safety was. All these myths I had growing up as a kid, I'm just throwing out the window each day. I want to write a book about the myths of them and what it's like to lose them. -- Tom King
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Mister Miracle was about how we survive through love. But this is about how we react to evil and how we deal with it and confront it. To me, it's a much more active book, and it reflects more of the emotional place I am in now, where I'm done with surviving. I'm ready to fight. -- Tom King
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If I could write the perfect action comic book that had no emotions in it and sold eight million copies to break Jim Lee’s record, and put none of myself in, I’d do it in a second. But when I try to do that, it turns out crappy. I’m trying to make good comics so I put myself in them. -- Tom King
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I think the thing I didn’t want to do the most was become stale. My first three books, Sheriff of Babylon, The Vision, and Omega Men were all about the Iraq War experience. My next books, Batman, Heroes in Crisis, and Mister Miracle were all about trauma and family and romance. I was super scared, I’ve done my best work, so the idea was to get experimental and do something weird and off and just not sit still. Not be a dying shark, to keep going. -- Tom King
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Strange Adventures #6 - "Another thing"
Nov. 24th, 2020 12:52 amlaughing_tree
Adam Strange is one of a long line of characters, like Tarzan and Flash Gordon—stolid men with dimpled chins who thrive in “foreign lands”—who stand in as a metaphor for a 19th Century European dream of colonialism. Of course, colonialism was nothing like this dream, and it’s that contrast that interests me: the bloody gap between the myth and the reality. -- Tom King
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I was falsely accused of faking my CIA past which is crazy because I didn’t fake it. I remember the utter feeling of helplessness and frustration of being accused of something I didn’t do and having to prove who I was. That emotion was very much on my mind when I was constructing this. Adam might be a little more guilty than I was. Or maybe he’s not as guilty as I was, I guess we’ll find out. -- Tom King
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Strange Adventures #4 - "Out the window"
Sep. 1st, 2020 03:48 amlaughing_tree
It’s once again our attempt to something like Watchmen or New Frontier, a contained story that speaks to its time that also expands what comics can be. Not saying we can do it or have done it, but we’ll try, or rather we’ll keep trying. Unlike Mister Miracle, this isn’t another tale of one man’s angst or trauma or recovery. Strange Adventures is fundamentally about something larger, deeper and darker—it’s trying to speak to the nature of truth and how our assumptions about that nature can tear us apart. -- Tom King
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It’s super-corny, but I’m madly in love with my wife and it informs and infects everything I write. I try to tell her, “Look honey, I wrote 85 issues of Batman as a love story, happy anniversary!” And she says, “No, you still have to take me out to dinner.” DC Comics has this romance in it in a way that Marvel doesn’t, it’s one of the few advantages we have over the competition. There’s a romantic ideal that we can lean into. But they’re totally different couples, because with Catwoman and Batman you have her being this villain, this untamed person. With Scott and Barda, you have a couple who’s been married forever and you’ll see that there’s a different dynamic between Adam and Alanna. She’s literally the princess of her world, she’s in charge of keeping it safe. And you have the princess married to the adventurer. It’s a darker relationship, I think. -- Tom King
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King says that [on Strange Adventures] he's trying to throw away the themes of his previous works (the Iraq war and his personal trauma). King says that he needs to make something more contemporary and that in the wake of the 2016 election everyone said that we were going to get great art but that he hasn't seen that great art yet so they're going to try do that. -- Newsarama
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Swamp Thing: Mysteries in Space
Sep. 6th, 2018 03:57 pmalicemacher
The Swamp Thing guest stars in this more cynical take on the Silver Age hero Adam Strange.
( 'It's a dirty job... claab APOCHAN masraut fao ol!' )
Justice League United #1
May. 14th, 2014 11:28 pmskemonoSo last issue, Stargirl and Animal Man followed Adam Strange to the site of the alien abduction, where they were attacked by aliens and joined by Martian Manhunter and Green Arrow. The aliens unleash... something... and now they have to fight it.
( But they have to fight it under cover of this cut. )
( But they have to fight it under cover of this cut. )
