NO! He's -- you DIDN'T! YOU-- Huh? --NO!
Marc Singer,
over at a new group blog called "
The All-New
All-Different Howling Curmudgeons," writes
an
extended examination of the problems with writer Kurt Busiek's
dialogue in the
JLA/Avengers mini-series. Some of
my favorite bits:
- "Busiek, apparently unwilling to let George Perez to pull his
weight in the storytelling department, uses the heroes to narrate the
story, to tell us what's happening and, worse, what we should be
feeling about it. It's the dialogue equivalent of the sitcom reaction
shot, and it stems from that same fear that we won't know Monica just
made a funny if we don't see Joey laughing."
- "Forget the dialogue - if you really want to find weird sexual
signals in this crossover, look no further than the image of all the
Marvel and DC marine characters writhing in a tangled mass reminiscent
of nothing so much as the superhero orgy from Grant Morrison's Flex
Mentallo."
- "The plot centers on the uneasy union of two universes, with
repeated images of Krona merging them together. He's captured Eternity
and Kismet (the Marvel and DC embodiments of their respective
universes) and, in one panel in the final issue, is forcing them into
one another in a scene that reads frighteningly as some kind of cosmic
rape camp."
Looks like a nice start to the blog so far. And thanks for the
kind words about
my
own JLA/Avengers review, Marc!
