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I'll pass, thanks. And not just because POUNDED flundered so badly at the end, but because I've pretty much gone off Brian Wood as a whole.
That POUNDED ended up celebrating and affirming all the macho a-man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-do-bullshit that it seemed primed to satirize—and that Wood bristled so hard at any critical suggestion that the story was less than 100% successful because of that—leads me to believe that the man's "progressive" credentials consist entirely of a knee-jerk distrust of the cops.
Confession: I started this thread after an afternoon lurking on Wood's Delphi forum. Lauded as a genius for what appears to me to be a perfectly pedestrian design sense, locked in a perpetual circle-jerk with Larry Young (whose constant shilling has grown both tiresome and obnoxious), seemingly unable to promote his own work without trashing the work of others—Brian Wood seems everything that Warren Ellis has ever been accused of being, but without Ellis' leavening of irony.
This is a man who thinks it's clever to silence debate by posting a picture of a man slapping the shit out of a woman (Steve McQueen smacking Ali McGraw in The Getaway, if you care)—because, see, it's funny! Cos only bitches whine about stuff, right? Punk-ass bitches. Yeah.
But he's keeping it real, he's down with the kids, right? Like the real, authentic punk rock that spoke to the kidscame up rough in the bad parts of town, he's making art that means something. Never mind that he grew up in bucolic Vermont and vacations at Lake George: the standards of "authenticity" are his, not mine.
That's the personality. Okay. But what about the work?
Haven't read the allegedly-brilliant CHANNEL ZERO, and based on this...
... the Clean Act turned America into a right wing Christian police state...
I liked that story better when it was called THE HANDMAID'S TALE.
[In CHANNEL ZERO] I never really dealt with [the protagonist] as a character, as an individual...
This seems like a huge flaw in a work of "genius." A story without a character isn't a story, it's a manifesto.
This original graphic novel is about the protagonist of Channel Zero before she became Jennie 2.5... [when] Jennie was an art student just starting out
An art student? Like, say, a young Brian Wood? Gosh! WHat a triumph of imagination! Semi-autobiographical wish-fulfillment ahoy!
Frankly, I just don't think he's all that bright, and his politics are a self-serving sham. Freedom = my freedom to not be hassled by The Man. How nice for me.
The emperor has no clothes, and a teensy pecker to boot.
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