A Book Log
Hey, in a comic drawn by Rob Liefeld, 50's pastiche is a sight for sore eyes...
Ray -- Mon Feb 10 08:02:52 2003
I was reading it when it came out and enjoyed it, but it was never more then a divertimenti, eh? Moore playing around with the superheroes again, nothing serious. And far too choked on nostalgia to be actually _dangerous_.
Martin Wisse (weasel@cloggie.org) (http://www.cloggie.org/books/) -- Tue Feb 11 16:26:41 2003
Not having read the book, I don't have an actual comment. I'm just posting to request some sort of number-of-comments counter on the front page, so I can tell whether there are actually comments there or not without having to click on the link...
Please?
Chad Orzel (orzelc@earthlink.net) (http://www.steelypips.org/principles/) -- Tue Feb 11 17:05:55 2003
Chad: It's there. Really. Except that it doesn't work on old browsers -- IE4, Netscape 4, and Opera 6. I'm guessing you're using the latter, so if you upgrade to Opera 7, then not only my site, but any site using the DOM will work better. Or forget about all that Opera nonsense and use Mozilla, which is better anyway.
Mike (web@klio.org) (http://www.klio.org/weblogs/) -- Tue Feb 11 18:20:44 2003
I just want to point out that I was first to be a doofus....
Trent (trent.goulding@mho.com) (http://home.mho.net/trent.goulding/books/blcurrent.html) -- Wed Feb 12 02:55:57 2003
Moore has mentioned on occasion, as has Rick Veitch, who drew the flashback sequences, that they approached Supreme as a playful and nostalgic -- but mocking -- commentary on "continuity" (in the comics nerd sense). Namely, that if you reverse engineer a seemless 70-year comics continuity for Superman (the veil's not thin, it's a spandex bodyglove) with the full benefit of hindsight and Moore's talent, it's still going to be damn silly.
More's the irony that those ugly Kirby drawings, and Stan Lee's, er, excelsory writing are what drew people like Moore and Veitch to comics in the first place.
Moore does go meta a lot, and with regularity on the caped genre, but let's face it, the preponderence of English-speaking comics narrative has centered around sexless men. . . in their underwear. . . with capes and masks and wellingtons. There's a lot to be mocked, and a lot to ponder. Moore's just making more than his share of the reparations for his ancestors' misdeeds.
Paul Dubuc -- Wed Feb 12 18:18:59 2003
I didn't disclaim: My company published the book.
Sorry.
Paul Dubuc -- Wed Feb 12 18:22:33 2003