: I was kind of thinking that, too... though I guess saying
: that the dream of Unlife and the Binding Dream are the
: same thing is a bit of a stretch...
: Everything Grant Morrison does is impressive. The way he
: eats his oatmeal is impressive.
It's the way the oatmeal turns out to be a five-dimensional hologram of the mind of a fictional entity from the future that really throws me...
: I thought about adding a long screed here about how
: Captain Marvel was just a pale imitation of Orion but
: that would be impolite. Instead I'll just say that
: Marvel hasn't released a decent comic since 1985, and
: leave it at that. I remember reading it--it was the
: New Mutants, and Bill Sinkiewics drew it. And it came
: with a warning label on the cover: "Warning! This
: is the last Marvel comic you will ever need to buy!
: Now go check out DC. They have Swamp Thing." :p
Heh, I find it amusing when Kirby produced pale imitations of his *own* (or partly his own) characters--Silver Surfer-->Black Racer, and that sort of thing. And who ripped off the Hulk to produce Blockbuster?
Lessee, good Marvel stuff in my time, young'un that I am--well, the Alan Davis/Chris Claremont Excalibur is my favorite series of all time (I love Warren Ellis like a brother, but he and Excalibur really didn't mesh), and I'll salivate over anything by Starlin, and Deadpool's usually satisfactory. Oh, and Generation X was fun for a while. Other than that: bleh.
--SiliconDream
