Same here. (I remember reading your articles back in 2000-2003. I didn't know that you follow comics. Today Maggie mentioned your discussion on Dark Horse forum and I rushed to read it.)
Oh thank you!
I've read some of your stuff as well - rec'd on petz's lj.
Yep, big comics fan. I have a weakness for super-hero/noir stories, particularly in the comics. Been collecting comics off and on since 1985. Was a huge X-men fanatic ( something Whedon apparently shares). I'd managed to give up on them in 2001. Then Whedon, damn him, started writing Astonishing X-men and got me picking them up again. I only picked up Whedon's X-men. Stopped - when he stopped writing them. Now he has me reading Buffy, and Lynch got me reading Angel. I was already reading the Spike comics, because...well you know.
I've also read the really good stuff or literary comics - Gaiman, Miller, Alan Moore... and some magna. Buffy reminds me a lot of female Japanese magna comics - which aren't as violent as the male ones, have more nudity, more sex scenes, and are in some ways lighter in tone and art. Jeanty's style fits the same tone as the Magna. I'm wondering if Whedon is attempting to do a female action comic in much the same way? He's not as biting as the Japanese or as X-rated. They get a little more..explicit in their comics than we do. But part of that is more adults read comics over there then over here. It's more mainstream and more accepted for some reason.
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Re: part 2
Date: 2009-01-27 12:50 am (UTC)Oh thank you!
I've read some of your stuff as well - rec'd on petz's lj.
Yep, big comics fan. I have a weakness for super-hero/noir stories, particularly in the comics. Been collecting comics off and on since 1985.
Was a huge X-men fanatic ( something Whedon apparently shares). I'd managed to give up on them in 2001. Then Whedon, damn him, started writing Astonishing X-men and got me picking them up again. I only picked up Whedon's X-men. Stopped - when he stopped writing them. Now he has me reading Buffy, and Lynch got me reading Angel. I was already reading the Spike comics, because...well you know.
I've also read the really good stuff or literary comics - Gaiman, Miller, Alan Moore... and some magna. Buffy reminds me a lot of female Japanese magna comics - which aren't as violent as the male ones, have more nudity, more sex scenes, and are in some ways lighter in tone and art. Jeanty's style fits the same tone as the Magna. I'm wondering if Whedon is attempting to do a female action comic in much the same way? He's not as biting as the Japanese or as X-rated. They get a little more..explicit in their comics than we do. But part of that is more adults read comics over there then over here. It's more mainstream and more accepted for some reason.