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Question movie about Comics writers
It time for Hollywood to movie about comic book writers
Which of comic book writers do you want to see a movie about?
Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster (DC)
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby (Marvel)
Both of them
ALAN MOORE
patron saint of comics creators
Here's my theory of Tom King:
I think about this a lot.
My theory about Tom King is that if you know nothing about the comic he's presenting, if you know nothing about any of the characters you are to be confronted with, and you were to, say, pick up some enormous Tom King omnibus, you'd actually love him. I actually think he's a great writer insofar as he's got style, a great flair for storytelling, is obviously an intelligent writer, and he has moments with an awful a lot of heart.
Mister Miracle is a great example.
BUUUTT, if he writes a character you know and love, chances are his take will be so wildly different from what you consider to be the core of that character, it'll just piss you off to the point of being unreadable. And I'm not a stickler for canon, but this Guy Gardner from The Human Target has none of the character growth that we know and love from the Guy of recent decades. For similar reasons, King's Batman and Catwoman come off so flimsy. In City of Bane Batman beats Bane not with his mind, or with his gadgets, or with his head for strategy. No, King has Bruce Wayne grapple with Bane mano a mano, throwing him over a knee in a reverse throwback to Batman: Knightfall.
Which sounds cool from a storytelling perspective, but is actually ridiculous when you pay more attention to the actual characters.
Let's not even start with Selina and Meow.
He's great with characters who don't have deep, rich histories. I think maybe he's also better with morally grey characters.
His Kite Man is heartbreaking, actually moved me to tears.
His Mister Miracle is fantastically, wonderfully human.
These two examples are richer because King is so great on fatherhood.
I'm enjoying his Christopher Chance. This is probably because I came to a few of these books with no fucking clue who these particular characters were.
It also doesn't hurt that without fail, his books will feature artists that will just knock your socks off. Greg Smallwood, Doc Shaner, Mitch Gerads, Clay Mann, Travis Moore, Mikel Janin. If Tom King is writing, it's going to be a beautiful looking book. He has good friends or good taste or good leverage or something
Anyway, this is my theory of Tom King.
What do you think?
Joye Murchison Kelly, who wrote Wonder Woman comics from 1944-1947 uncredited when she was Joye Hummel, passed away at the age of 97.
"Joye Hummel (who was married twice over the years, and thus used the name Joye Murchison Kelly at the time of her passing), the first woman to ever write Wonder Woman's comic book adventures, has passed away at the age of 97.
Hummel wrote all of the Wonder Woman stories that appeared in Wonder Woman, Sensation Comics and Comics Cavalcade from early 1945 until she retired from writing in 1947, but all of the comics were credited to Charles Moulton (a pen name for William Moulton Marston, based on his name and Charles "Max" Gaines, the co-owner of All-American Comics, the subsidiary of National Comics that published Wonder Woman originally). Hummel was little-known over the decades before Jill Lepore spotlighted her in Lepore's 2014 book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman."
Read the full piece here
Chip Zdarsky’s newsletter was the pick-me-up I needed.
I'm Guest Blogging at Oneshi Press about How to Write Comics
I’m Guest Blogging at Oneshi Press about How to Write Comics
The theme for November is writing. Like, a lot. Writing so, so many words. To date, I’ve written nearly 10.5K words of my 50K goal for #NaNoWriMo. (You can follow along with my progress on Twitter if you want, by the way.) And, because that’s apparently not enough writing for me…I’m also guest blogging at Oneshi Press this month!
I’ve been writing, editing, and publishing comics for a while now.…
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