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I really should attempt to explain myself a little better, because I DON'T want to come across as rude and unpleasant.
Was I expecting something other than Tank Girlyness? Well, Anna, no I wasn't - not really. But I was hoping for something else, or at least for the archetype to be taken off in a new direction (hence my 'let's see where she goes in the future' get-out-of-jail-free card). But this is kinda why, in this context, I don't buy the 'too many men in pants' argument. I'm a big believer in the comic writer's ability to reimagine/reappropriate old forms - to make them shiny and new and more interesting than just big blokes chucking each other around. Aren't you? Most of us read NXM, afterall. In the end, what I didn't get from the Everywhere strip was a sense of something exciting and different. The thing feels like an amalgamation of a bunch of brit comics Fly and I read in our teens (nothing specific just a general vibe) combined with the sort of stuff Fraely was knocking up about living in Hastings when he was eighteen. And that sort of stuff is as common in tiny press/amateur circles as superheroes are in the mainstream.
So, I know it's just me, but I feel a little too...familiar with the Jennyverse to be really blown away by it yet.
Fly, I'm sorry, I know it's a different strokes thing. As I say, there's nothing technically wrong with it at all - in fact it's overflowing with comic-y goodness. It reads perfectly and the transitions are great. Dialogue's fine and dandy too. The thing is, there's so much good stuff there that I'm positive it's all going to come together for me in the end. I didn't dislike 'Hostile Takeover', I'm just not wringing my hands with glee (again with the) yet.
I don't know where you get that 'if you like this...blah' business from, though. I like loads of the same things that you like (and I loved the bad-grrl-and-her-gang thing when Hewligan was churning it!). There's this weird misconception that's followed me around since my runtwaddam! days that I only dig big, weird, mystic superpants.... It's just NOT true! I read the Ultimates, but, Christ, my tastes stretch much further than that. I thought you knew that!
Oh, and you can call me "runce". I'll only go changing my name again in another couple of days. |
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