that's cool and all, but the weaknesses of KJ are there and they're huge. the text itself is an attempt to wrestle with the impossible-ness of the batman joker relationship, and because it's impossible it fails. you know that, right?
and the ultimate DARK comic:
DARKHAWK! it's got the word 'dark' in the title! bbbrrrr.
'you don't kill him. but you break his spine. he'll never pickpocket again'
and on and on. and he's got aids, which totally takes the wind out of him mid-scrap sometimes and when he gets a beating and he's all bleedy the rest of the superheroes keep a bit of distance, 'uh, you've uh, got something on your face?'
'i never kill but i break spines' as if that's okay. got a 1963-Shadowhawk crossover other week, valentino with his hands on moore's pets. 'you mean you kill your enemies?' 'No i just BREAK THEIR SPINES!!!' 'oh...'
mental stuff. my image/liefeld integration last year shocked me with the baseness and utter utter brutality of these books. i never even noticed when i was ten, but now i can hardly read an early issue of 'brigade' without feeling a bit ill, and it's the casualness of the violence that does it, not the awful anatomy and perspectives. |
