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"In retrospect, I did wonder about putting the old scarequotes round "realistic" but the point is, anhh, comics that treat Gotham or whatever (and, really, Catwoman was for about 20 issues, by an exponential amount, the best comic with a DC bullet in Morrison's interregnum from 99-05) as a material, grimey world. No real cosmology; they are their own. Mostly Gotham, I suppose, on the DC tip. Star City."
I dunno about this. Personally, I suspect that it's not just the noiry, grimey feel that grates; rather the lack of optimism that can sometimes characteris those sorts of comics.
Shortcut to 'meaningful' = kill all the characters, have evil win, have good lose...end the story. See Wanted, see La Haine, see Reservoir Dogs, see Watchmen, etc etc.
Gotham Central had it's moments of optimism and it's small victories for the police force; crucially, it was well-written and enjoyable.
This, I think, is what Final Crisis will be about it the end; yes, Evil will win, and it will be bleak and harrowing for the next issue or two. Then, we will get a glorious fightback showing the inherent power of 'good'.
Whilst this is kind of standard practice for events comics, I think we're going to see it amped up beyond belief; and I think he's going to have the balls to cast aside all the nonsense about moral ambiguity and just display it as incredibly old-skool black-and-white good-and-evil. |
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