Why use that stupid “snowflakes” diss, so overused by alt right assclowns? You don’t really understand what you’re writing about either, but I’m going to assume you were at the right age to buy all the poly-bagged shite the big two were pushing at the time and you’re too defensive to admit even now it WAS all shite.…

If this were ‘98 Wizard mag. level it would just be hyping RL’s drek.

Yeah, that’s kind of the point. Someone else stated that RL was influenced by Art Adams but AA was good.

As funny as that is, every time I see that image (or any of RL’s work really), I really hope I’ll never have to see it again.

That’s ignoring the point that comparing RL to BS is as ridiculous as comparing Marc Silvestri to Dave McKean.

While I get your point, I’m not comfortable “blaming” a superhero artist as good as AA for any of this. He was doing his job with consummate skill and should bear no responsibility for “inspiring” this dope.

As horribly untalented as Liefeld is, the worst result was the imitation of the style in the industry, turning me off of mainstream fare in the late 90's. There were several subpar artists who share this “responsibility” with RL, of varying degrees of competence and each had their imitators. Similar to the “grunge…

“His is the model for anyone who similarly believes that writing is a William Blake-like journey down a road of excess, leading toward 4,000 words of magazine-ready wisdom.”

Man, what a terrible decision. If you wanted to continue telling stories with Watchmen’s characters great, just don’t try to awkwardly ret-con them into your primary universe. Seems like a creative slippery slope, which could lead to all kinds of corny character juxtapositions I certainly am not clamoring for.

Yeah, that seems like cognitive dissonance. Strangely this attitude seems to be prevalent almost exclusively here in the States, a holdover from the juvenile delinquent hysteria of the post WW2 era. Many just can’t seem to get past it. No matter how many movies are made, how many good reviews of printed material in…

Appropriate and powerful quote. I was very surprised when looking it up that it was Agatha Christie.

I’d go even further and say we should generate enough pointed, accessible satire that gun obsession became the perverse anti-life joke it already is. We need an updated version of George Carlin stat.

Judging by the response to this story it appears his view on “screens” may have been justified. “Cultic” craft too (whatever that really means). I was never a fan but as a frustrated writer and bibliomane I appreciate the effort. Thanks Phil.

As a lifelong comic nerd who’s watched the products of our medium enrich people beyond imagining and create an enormous fanbase of comic book movie “nerds”, the lack of engagement and respect from non-readers has been seriously disappointing.

Also, a bunch of pat pronouncements about what SF is and what its objectives are that were also obviously very visual media influenced. This couldn’t help but strike literary SF critics and writers (who themselves struggle to acceptably define the genre) as a very self-satisfied and reductionist view of the issue.

Yeah, I mean that’s fine. If you follow the rest of this discussion through the couple other comments I made, I think it’s just a pet peeve of mine. By any real world metric these are two talented, successful people, who are already dealing with industry attitudes and pressure as far as success goes and the fans who…

My father is a boomer and was a hippie and he’s just recently coming around on New Wave/synth stuff and I love it. I love that he’s not one of us who’s allowed himself to become calcified taste-wise, gives me hope. Plus now we’ve got a bunch more interesting conversations in our future (music’s one of the only things…

If he is well versed in literary SF, you certainly don’t glean that information from this typically shallow take on cinematic SF and it’s lifting of tropes from great authors. I have respect for the man as a filmmaker and I realize you can’t cover everything and that this was always going to be pretty cinema-centric…

I’m way late on this but I’m just watching this now and you make the point I was going to make to some extent. I’ve been a SF reader since my early teens (a few decades) and I’ve always found the cinema equivalent to be a shallow reflection of a deep genre (in some sense this is inevitable due to format but it’s also…

It just seems almost obnoxious to me how “success” oriented some of us are. How we define success should be a more personal proposition than just “if you don’t make it to the very top in your field and stay there, you’re a loser”, which seems to be some commentators definition (not to even get into the pressures to…