the end of Comics as we know it
Jay Herzog
zogboy at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 16:20:47 CDT 2009
You're right Rich. Frank Milller is the most overrated artist in
comics - heavy handed, derivative and politically thuggish.
J.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have friends who will only collect "golden age" comics which for my
> generation is not the 40s-50s era titles but mid-late 60s to mid-late
> 70s
> I know folks will disagree with this but I think Frank Miller and his
> ilk destroyed alot of what I loved about comics--the art was terrible
> and the stories became so serious--part of the joy I had for
> particularly Spiderman and Batman was the element of youthful passion
> and fantastic adventure with the goofy bad guys and not so
> heavy-handed psychology
>
> rich
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> On 9/10/09, umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
>> On 10 Sep 2009 at 16:15, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
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>>> That they don't see any difference between comics and movies doesn't bode
>>> well for movies either.
>>>
>>
>> Were Lemuria still here would it be so interesting? I hope some CEOs
>> there will decide to close both Marvel and DC so that we can feel
>> some regret for the lost age of superhero comics...
>> _____________
>> umberto rossi
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