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angelophileNothing really to report. Still feeling low, not sure how to articulate it. Just feeling generally off, unsurprisingly. No doubt plenty of people reading won't have a clue why I'm upset about losing just a pet, but whatever, it has got to me.
Started rereading some old comic issues last night. Yep, run out of new ones to read. That problem should be solved shortly by the 60+ issues of New Mutants I have headed my way that I won on ebay. Woot.
Anyway, started reading old issues of Uncanny again. I have to ask... what happened? At the beginning of the year Chuck Austen was doing some -great- stories. Dominant Species followed a few strong issues and reading it again now as a whole I realise what a good story it was. The art that I wasn't so keen on at the time I'm used to now. Okay, so the missing faces are still slightly annoying and the noses still don't look right on occasion, but in terms of colour, composition and line structure I do really like the artist. The script is strong, and a couple of minor annoyances aside that the bad guys aren't really very well expanded upon to give them any motivation, there are a lot of really witty moments in the dialogue, particularly with Stacy X. The plot isn't the strongest but the characterisation more than makes up for it. The previous issues had been equally strong, with short plotlines focusing on smaller groups of characters.
So what the hell happened? The cast has swelled to double the size, characterisation has been all but forgotten in the rush. Any attempts at plot have been almost too horrible to contemplate. Characterisation has given way to plots by numbers. Chuck Austen simply can't write epic storylines for shit and why he's even trying is beyond me. The quality of the art has fluctuated radically, but the writing has got consistantly worse. Corny cheesefests abound.
I guess it annoys me most because I've never seen a writer deteriorate so rapidly during the course of a year. Consitantly bad writing I can handle. The odd bad issue from a good writer I can forgive. But to take such a strong start and toss it away just seems a waste. It's even more annoying because the problem could be solved with decent editorial control.
Bah. rant rant.
Started rereading some old comic issues last night. Yep, run out of new ones to read. That problem should be solved shortly by the 60+ issues of New Mutants I have headed my way that I won on ebay. Woot.
Anyway, started reading old issues of Uncanny again. I have to ask... what happened? At the beginning of the year Chuck Austen was doing some -great- stories. Dominant Species followed a few strong issues and reading it again now as a whole I realise what a good story it was. The art that I wasn't so keen on at the time I'm used to now. Okay, so the missing faces are still slightly annoying and the noses still don't look right on occasion, but in terms of colour, composition and line structure I do really like the artist. The script is strong, and a couple of minor annoyances aside that the bad guys aren't really very well expanded upon to give them any motivation, there are a lot of really witty moments in the dialogue, particularly with Stacy X. The plot isn't the strongest but the characterisation more than makes up for it. The previous issues had been equally strong, with short plotlines focusing on smaller groups of characters.
So what the hell happened? The cast has swelled to double the size, characterisation has been all but forgotten in the rush. Any attempts at plot have been almost too horrible to contemplate. Characterisation has given way to plots by numbers. Chuck Austen simply can't write epic storylines for shit and why he's even trying is beyond me. The quality of the art has fluctuated radically, but the writing has got consistantly worse. Corny cheesefests abound.
I guess it annoys me most because I've never seen a writer deteriorate so rapidly during the course of a year. Consitantly bad writing I can handle. The odd bad issue from a good writer I can forgive. But to take such a strong start and toss it away just seems a waste. It's even more annoying because the problem could be solved with decent editorial control.
Bah. rant rant.
