Comic Rantings from a Hateful Bitch.

[fenderlove]

F-list, I apologize for yet another comic-related thing to fill up with your page with woe and angst, but I want to rant too. Everyone else is getting to have so much fun with it! Yeah, I'm fairly hateful about the S8 comics. I've actually read 'em though I refuse to buy them because why should I pay good money for something that I'm just going to mock? The one positive thing that you will ever hear me say about Joss Whedon is that he does have a small bit of integrity in that he tells the story he wants to tell and fuck everyone else. Trouble is he's still a wanker.


The only problem is that he's a trope of himself and spiraled down into near parody of badness. I don't believe Joss panders to any one set group of fans 'cause I believe that he couldn't give a flying fig because he's got a pretty hardcore fanbase that's hard to shake. I mean, you throw massive amounts of unnecessary character deaths/resurrections, rapes/attempted rapes/sexual assaults/forced prostitution, faux!feminism masquerading as the genuine article, and enough plotholes to sink a Winnebago, and the fans don't go away. Even the ones who are severely disappointed don't go away. There's something to be said for that, I suppose. He gives you glimpses of the things you once enjoyed about his programs only to take them away or to twist them into an unrecognizable tangled mess of stinking offal. I wish I could bond with him over a shared sense of sadism (I do enjoy causing a bit of pain), but I fear he's far more deranged than I. I don't ship, and his need to stir up a shit-storm at random is just so played that it annoys the frak out of me. In a way, how freeing it must be to Joss Whedon. To have the kind of following to fund what he wants to do, to have the pull to get the deals that allow he to have total artistic freedom, yet he can't seem to help but joss everyone. It'd be laughable if it wasn't pathetic... Oh, wait, it's still laughable. The only explanation for why BtVS and Ats were originally so compelling was just a magical happenstance of other writers and directors and actors that came together in perfect harmony to create a lasting story with compelling characters that withstands the years. A fluke, perhaps? There are definitely times I wonder.

Also, Scott Allie is a douche and a bully. Jack Kirby should rise from the grave and beat the daylights out of that man for being such a sad martyred sack of old oats. He's like the Felix the Cat of stupid parlor pander. "Oh, I accidentally posted this... Oh, you weren't supposed to see that!" pulling the same kind of crap that would get even a high-up-than-intern employee fired. I've lost all respect for Dark Horse though I honestly cannot say that I was that impressed with much of their titles (though hats off to them for breaking through the Big Two to get closer to the top of the heap and opening the doors to other smaller labels). Comics are taking such a major leap backwards, and I blame the massive amounts of franchise comics struggling to tease out even five more points out between a built-in audience that may not exist and an audience of already comic-buyers, praying that this quarter will be better than the last. This isn't the Modern Age of Comics; welcome to the Brass Age, baby.

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[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I take real offense to those who won't let others complain. They say, "You haven't read all of it so it's not fair for you to judge!" when it doesn't matter if someone stopped reading after issue 1 or after issue 30. It was bad enough for them to stop reading! Something about the story failed for the reader, and that's not the reader's fault. I mean, yay definitely for those that are truly enjoying it, but I don't see anything redeeming about this comic. Even if there was a grand pay-off at the end, would it really be worth it? I mean, how great can a pay-off be if a three-and-a-half year storyline can be hastily patched together to a finale in the seven issues that are left of this season?