OK, I should be really, really afraid.

[gridlore]

I'm watching "Minoriteam" on Adult Swim. Quite possibly the most offensive thing ever. In it, one of the characters has been blown up.. all the way past Black Heaven into Nordic Heaven.

Valhalla, in other words. And they got the Aesir right. Thor has red hair and Mjonir looks right. Odin has one eye and ravens.

Why is it this really objectionable little cartoon gets it right and Marvel skill can't get a clue?

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Re: Didn't see that one...

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's been my problem. I've got dozens of plotlines and plenty of characters, all with firm stories and story hooks, but no talent with a pencil through which they could come to life on the page.

I read Marvel past the Inferno crossover. I felt they cheesed out on the ending of it, but stuck with them and DC for quite a while after that. I still don't think most of their work ever approached the sheer comic brilliance that you'd find in something like Watchmen or even the intelligent approaches taken with Bill Waterson's Elementals or more recently The Authority. Far more interesting stories, there, and often because they had no qualms about killing off characters nor any established malarky to which they had to cling and cleave.

Re: Didn't see that one...

[seawasp]

Well, for my money, Kingdom Come ranks up there with any other graphic novels. Other than that the Big Two haven't produced all that much to grab me.

Re: Didn't see that one...

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

I thought Supreme Power has been a good body of work. Of course, that started under Marvel's MAX imprint and is now going forward under the only slightly-more limiting Marvel Knights line, so they had the freedom to operate outside any of the usual concerns like Marvel's continuing self-regulation by the old Comics Code Authority guidelines.