Comments on: Why I Stopped Reading the Legion http://www.elharo.com/blog/pop-culture/comic-books/2008/08/16/why-i-stopped-reading-the-legion/ Ranting and Raving Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:01:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Elliotte Rusty Harold http://www.elharo.com/blog/pop-culture/comic-books/2008/08/16/why-i-stopped-reading-the-legion/comment-page-1/#comment-508493 Elliotte Rusty Harold Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:40:28 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/?p=1001343#comment-508493 Sometimes when the powers that be act like idiots, a writer needs to walk away. Rick Veitch did back in <cite>Swamp Thing 88</cite>, and J. Michael Straczynski has a lot more clout than Rick Veitch has ever had. Sometimes when the powers that be act like idiots, a writer needs to walk away. Rick Veitch did back in Swamp Thing 88, and J. Michael Straczynski has a lot more clout than Rick Veitch has ever had.

]]> By: AndyT http://www.elharo.com/blog/pop-culture/comic-books/2008/08/16/why-i-stopped-reading-the-legion/comment-page-1/#comment-504646 AndyT Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:36:32 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/?p=1001343#comment-504646 J. Michael Straczynski probably changed Peter Parker more than most: * he actually started a new job as a teacher, that went on for an extended run getting in the way of the super hero hi-jinx * he revealed Peter's identity to aunt May * He spent a lot of time looking into the origin of Spiderman's powers, asking if the radioactive spider was quite what it seemed. Rightly or wrongly he was ordered by Marvel management to write out the wedding and all that stuff in his last issue. He has made it quite clear on the record he disagreed. Not that I mind the new Spiderman story line, it is just you are picking on the wrong writer here. J. Michael Straczynski probably changed Peter Parker more than most:

* he actually started a new job as a teacher, that went on for an extended run getting in the way of the super hero hi-jinx
* he revealed Peter’s identity to aunt May
* He spent a lot of time looking into the origin of Spiderman’s powers, asking if the radioactive spider was quite what it seemed.

Rightly or wrongly he was ordered by Marvel management to write out the wedding and all that stuff in his last issue. He has made it quite clear on the record he disagreed. Not that I mind the new Spiderman story line, it is just you are picking on the wrong writer here.

]]> By: John Cowan http://www.elharo.com/blog/pop-culture/comic-books/2008/08/16/why-i-stopped-reading-the-legion/comment-page-1/#comment-490598 John Cowan Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:34:14 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/?p=1001343#comment-490598 In some contexts it works, though. Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels progress from <i>Fer-de-Lance</i> in 1934 to <i>A Family Affair</i> in 1974, with the world changing around them appropriately, but Wolfe is always fifty-six and Archie is always in his thirties. Of course, the real difference is that the Wolfe mysteries were the work of a single hand and mind. In some contexts it works, though. Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels progress from Fer-de-Lance in 1934 to A Family Affair in 1974, with the world changing around them appropriately, but Wolfe is always fifty-six and Archie is always in his thirties. Of course, the real difference is that the Wolfe mysteries were the work of a single hand and mind.

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