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I really shouldn't be posting to this thread, I know. But... really, the bit about how they couldn't possibly have invented a plane? Fuck, I can't build or invent a plane! It happens. Was flying a plane into a building and killing a bunch of people barbaric? That one's up in the air, but the plane-building didn't bother me, and I didn't think of it as a racist statement. He doesn't say/write/imply that all Arabic, Muslim, or even terrorists and their billionaire backers could ever build a plane or invent something, et cetera... we are, strictly with the Muslim/Arabic (and that's a broad brushstroke there, innit) world, talking about a culture that invented a helluva lotta maths and our number system, aside from art and writing and such that's just marvelous. Who I took it to be simply referring to, is the actual hijackers, and I can't say one way or the other if they could have come up with planes, had there been none in existence before that. What I can suggest is that repressive, fascist cultures tend to come to creative stand-stills as far as what happens in the open.
And I think the "Elektra is still dead" stuff was meant as a joke. Franco is still dead, and so on.
What bothered me was how broad the interview was, in terms of the political and social stuff. Would have been great to move from 'terrorists busting up parts of New York are barbarous' to 'My '300' was a heroic story, totally' to immediately calling Miller on those statements, and a 'when is mass-murdery death and assault okeh and when is it a case of "you assholes killed my neighbors!" and all? Is it heroic when it's a story, and not history or reality? Is the real event, then, Spartans and all, not heroic, or is it?
In fiction, these quick movements with little rational connection don't bother me at all, but in an interview, in a nonfictional setting, you have to be sensible and connect the dots, stop and think before responding, or else, what's the point?
It's not like he's dropped to Paty Cockrum territory.
Oh, crap: somebody needs to write a comic where somebody calls Magneto 'Sweet chunks!' With ass-shots in high-detail frilly panties.
Is the new issue of Ass-Bat as bad as folks are making it out? I still can't procure an issue.
And am I the only one who thinks - while I don't agree with Frank Miller the mysoginist, homophobe, or racist - that Miller might have some issues with transsexuals and specifically, body-modification along gender lines? There are positive examples, in his work of women, non-white folks of both genders, and homosexuals of both genders, but when somebody's moved from one gender to another or something similar, the genderfucking individual never comes off in a good light, do they? Intentional and meaningful, or just random chance portrayal? |
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