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― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link
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― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link
The controversy around it was half the fun. It's always great watching po-faced twunts get excited about things.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Nice to know there are plenty of other people out there who keep reading some of these damn series despite the lack of rewards.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
(This post will be deleted at some point this weekend by the way).
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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― J (Jay), Monday, 8 January 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Does this guy have any kind of game in comic collector circles? I ask because while tidying up the attic last week, I found a copy of "near myths", a brit comic anthology zine from the late '70's. As well as an episode of Bryan Talbot's "Luther Arkwright", it contains an episode of Morrison's "Gideon Stargrave". I believe Morrison resurrected the character in recent years. It is really, really bad. But kind of entertainingly so.
Should I haul it up on ebay, or just stick it back on the shelf, dear ILC-ers?
― Pashmina, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
OH YEAH
― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
perhaps you may even get offers from ILComickers
― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh man!
― Douglas, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I have just discovered that they retconned out of existence the big twist from GM's New X-Men.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Which one... the everybody-will-be-mutants one? Or another one?
― James Morrison, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought they'd retconned the lot. Presumably because it left a bunch of X geeks and casual readers who'd just seen the movie all going "WTF? We don't want actual ideas in our comics."
― Stone Monkey, Thursday, 29 November 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Most of them. Although they retconned Xorn within, like, days after GM's run ended. Evidently they didn't understand the entire concept.
― Douglas, Thursday, 29 November 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Filth is good as a collection of ideas and reads better the second time through. It's part of Grant's "feel sorry for my dead cat" genre."
Can anyone explain this to me?
― MaresNest, Friday, 28 November 2008 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Which bit?
The Filth is good as a collection of ideas - it's certainly a collection of ideas, and I really like the ideas in the collection.
reads better the second time through - this is self-explanatory, though I haven't given it the second read.
It's part of Grant's "feel sorry for my dead cat" genre." - as seen in Animal Man, he's not above using the projection that humans place on lower lifeforms to get an emotional response, as part of the effect he's trying to generate with his stories.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 28 November 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I actually think that The Filth's insistence that sympathy for non-humans is an essential aspect of humanity is pretty interesting. It's Feely's love for his cat that keeps him from returning to his old life. It's certainly heavy-handed, and something GM's perhaps done a little too much (both in Animal Man, and at least once in The Invisibles), but it is a pretty effective near-universal experience to tap into.
Also, yes, The Filth is certainly better second time through.
― arango, Saturday, 29 November 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
...he's not above using the projection that humans place on lower lifeforms to get an emotional response...
-- Andrew Farrell
Perhaps it's exactly as cynical as you suggest, but based on Animal Man, The Filth, We3, Seaguy, I get the impression that the issue is a bit more personal for Mr. Morrison. I.e., he's not coldly exploiting a projection so much as sympathetically exploring the emotional consequences of loss -- using personal experience as a tool. Loved The Filth the first time through, and no more (no less) the second.
― Suggest Ban Permalink (contenderizer), Sunday, 7 December 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Servoret posts from way upthread are so damn great.
― Suggest Ban Permalink (contenderizer), Sunday, 7 December 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe it's not a big issue in The Filth, but I thought Animal Man and WE3 made it clear Morrison cares about animals and animal rights as such, so it's not always just about projection. WE3 is all about not seeing animals as mere intruments to satisfy human needs.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 7 December 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
wHAT tUOMAS AND sUGGEST bAN pERMALINK SAID. Sorry, typed without looking with caps lock on.
― James Morrison, Sunday, 7 December 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link