BEER Ch. 4 The Aggro Hour

[Bekah]

The West Side girl friend who read BE on my recommendation sent me this little site this morning: 

https://www.livingsocial.com/cities/865-nyc-upper-west-side/deals/862406-five-krav-maga-or-combat-fitness-classes?afsrc=1&utm_campaign=digest_dailyus&utm_content=865&utm_medium=email&utm_source=blast

or: 
http://tinyurl.com/mr44lmx

I am so pleased that she really enjoyed the book and can't quite let go of its hold on her.  (he he)

Bekah
who still has serious family issues - (new email this morning)   - it takes time - probably years really


On Oct 21, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "... The Aggro Hour, featuring both of Otis's currently favorite
> superheroes ..." (BE, Ch. 4, p. 32)
> 
> 
> krav maga (p. 31)
> 
> Krav Maga is a tactical martial system developed in Israel that
> consists of a wide combination of techniques sourced from boxing, Muay
> Thai, Wing Chun, Judo, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, and grappling, along with
> realistic fight training. Krav Maga is known for its focus on
> real-world situations and extremely efficient and brutal
> counter-attacks. It was derived from street-fighting skills developed
> by Slovakian-Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld, who made use of
> his training as a boxer and wrestler, as a means of defending the
> Jewish quarter against fascist groups in Bratislava in the mid-to-late
> 1930s. In the late 1940s, following his immigration to Israel, he
> began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the
> IDF, who went on to develop the system that became known as Krav Maga.
> It has since been refined for civilian, police and military
> applications.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_maga
> http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_31
> 
> 
> "The Aggro Hour"
> 
> The Dark Age of Comic Books was the culmination of a gradual move
> towards an older audience for Comic Books, particularly those
> featuring superheroes ....  Usually characterized as a Darker and
> Edgier period featuring an increased focus on sex, violence and dark,
> gritty portrayals of the characters involved, much of the content
> produced during this era is very controversial among comic book fans
> and is usually (depending on who you ask) considered either a welcome
> breath of fresh air after the medium languishing so long in its own
> version of the Animation Age Ghetto, or a period of grotesque excess
> and immaturity ... or both.
> 
> [...]
> 
> .... a number of critics argue that in many cases "mature" content was
> actually closer to "adolescent"; while creators were taking
> inspiration from The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, many had
> completely missed the point, focusing merely on the surface details in
> order to Follow the Leader without coupling them with the depth of
> narrative and the thematic and psychological complexity that had made
> these works unique and well received. Complaints center around a crowd
> of deeply disturbed and unpleasant 'heroes' who were quite frequently
> little more than psychotic thugs cut from the same template.
> 
> [...]
> 
> In at least one medium, the Dark Age is still going strong; the number
> of comic book movies has increased in recent decades, and these tend
> to have darker takes on superheroes and other comics material....
> 
> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks
> 
> ... and see as well, e.g., ...
> 
> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NinetiesAntiHero
> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/ImageComics
> 
> http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/4/21/2960508/worst-rob-liefeld-drawings
> http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/6/14/3084348/the-second-40-worst-rob-liefeld-drawings
> 
> Pynchon and cartoons/comic books/superheroes?
> 
> 
> Disrespect
> 
> http://www.blacksuperhero.com/
> http://worldofblackheroes.com/black-superheroes/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_superheroes
> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenMinority
> 
> Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans
> 
> http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/69
> 
> Black Images in Comics
> 
> http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/black-images-in-the-comics-softcover-ed.-may-2012-3.html
> 
> Super Black
> 
> http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/namsue
> 
> Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
> 
> http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-comics-9781441135285/
> 
> White Scripts and Black Supermen (2012)
> 
> http://blacksuperherodoc.com/
> http://newsreel.org/video/WHITE-SCRIPTS-BLACK-SUPERMEN
> 
> Most names became one word, usually gritty, edgy, and trendy. At
> times, two words were merged into a single name, usually including
> some combination of Dark, Blood, or a verb for killing. Because
> substandard literacy is kewl, they are occasionally misspelled in
> clever ways like Darkchylde, Stryker, or Blüdwulf — which, not
> coincidentally, also makes the names easier to trademark.
> 
> Characters surviving from this time period may have to struggle with
> sounding dated, but then again, surviving the nineties hopefully means
> they have more to them than just boasts of Badassness.
> 
> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkAgeOfSupernames
> 
> 
> The Contaminator
> 
> http://www.toxicavenger.com/
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dht_3NziwSw
> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent
> 
> The Nineties Anti-Hero is a specific version of the Anti-Hero. Not all
> such characters were created during the 1990s, but that was the time
> when they were most common and most popular.
> 
> This guy is the polar opposite of your typical Silver Age superhero.
> Not only are they flawed, they may lack any heroic attributes.
> However, they're rarely ineffectual or pathetic (in the eyes of the
> writer, anyway), generally instead being totally committed to whatever
> they're doing at the moment. They have no compunction about killing
> villains, and indeed, this may extend to anyone who gets in their way;
> facing The Cape or any hero who does mind, they sneer at them as
> outdated. Their super-powers ... tend towards the lethal as well ...
> 
> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NinetiesAntiHero
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e1DkKBg4r0
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