June 01, 2017

A Few Thoughts on Comics

John C. Wright points us to this thoughtful post over at Wasteland Sky, focusing on My Hero Academia

 And where did Kohei Horikoshi get the idea for him? Where did he get such a radical idea for a character like that? From Marvel: the same company that can’t create a new character without relying on old ones or giving a new hero an original personality outside of checkbox approved positions on all social issues. This more than anything shows Marvel's current failings. They’ve fallen hard since Peter Parker.


I've only seen a few episodes of MHA, but was impressed. Do read Wright's take too,
Falcon has actually always been a favorite character of mine, and so has Luke Cage, and so has (not ashamed to admit it) Night Thrasher. Not because they are Black, but because they are awesome.....

....In the movie Falcon was twice as cool as in the comics — I like the winged jetpack and never liked the pet bird. He was even cool when Ant Man was kicking his butt.

But sticking Falcon into the Captain America suit, and calling him Cap? Why not just have him be Falcon?

Miles Morales? Really? Why not call him some other name, Electroshock, or whatever, and make him cool on his own, if you have what it takes to make him a cool character.


I would quibble a bit with Wasteland Sky's larger point, that U.S. comics are bereft of ideas. Mainline superhero comics may be in a wilderness now but the comic industry here is actually quite entertaining and innovative outside of those constraints.

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1 Never really followed Schlock Mercenary, at lot of my writer friends really liked it, but unless I'm confusing folks, the creator has recently turned SJW.

Posted by: Mauser at Thu Jun 1 22:43:50 2017 (m1WSx)

2 Nah, if he were an SJW, he'd have already trashed his story in the name of pushing the message. Instead, he blogged back in January that he's deliberately not doing that, and instead venting those feelings on Twitter. Since he's still telling an entertaining story, it must be working. :-)

-j

Posted by: J Greely at Fri Jun 2 11:51:48 2017 (tgyIO)

3 Wish more creators could exercise that kind of control.

BTW, that show has now been added to my CR queue. (Yay! Another way to collect anime I can't find the time to watch!) I really do love stuff that messes with the whole Superhero genre.

Posted by: Mauser at Fri Jun 2 19:29:19 2017 (m1WSx)

4 Powered through the first season (See what I did there?).

It skirted awfully close to Arena Combat with that first exercise, but it got better. Actually, it had a lot of really touching moments. I'm a total sucker for Heroic self-sacrifice.

Still have no idea what the pink girl actually does except that one spot where she apparently dripped a little acid.

Watching on CR is a bit annoying. I think there's something odd with the codec. In certain scenes where something flashes (like in episode 13 where the electric villain flashes some sparks or that hero who clones himself lets fly) the whole screen desaturates towards grey, like there's some kind of automatic gain control over-reacting to the scene and stomping on the gamma. I have no idea how to debug this or which end of the connection it's on.

Posted by: Mauser at Sat Jun 3 19:16:39 2017 (m1WSx)

5 Oh no. School Sports Festival arc. All the clever worldbuilding, the secret underground of Villians, all that stuff will now be put on hold, I imagine.

Posted by: Mauser at Sun Jun 4 19:18:57 2017 (m1WSx)

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