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Sep. 26th, 2005 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zdashamberYou should all go vote in the Best Comic-Book Writer poll at ign.com. It's Neil Gaiman versus Alan Moore, and Gaiman needs help.
I don't read comics much, so I can't suggest ways to vote in the concurrent poll, but I'd like to see Alan Moore go down. Go! Vote! http://comics.ign.com/articles/646/646667p12.html
I'd feel a lot better about Alan Moore if he had some other way of relating to female characters than Where does the rape come in. Evey? Is introduced by threatened rape. Mina? Is threatened with rape in the first and second issues, and then in the third we meet one of Our Heros raping a schoolful of girls. Whatsername the child of rape in Watchmen, the only female character? I didn't even bother to read From Hell. I can only imagine what he did with Victorian prostitutes.
I mean, leaving aside the creepy-ass WTF-ness, doesn't it show a certain lack of writing ability? Vote Neil!
(I read "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and for a year or two after I was asking people, Is there some other book? Was there some really excellent book that everyone was praising, and I'd accidentally bought the knockoff?)
I don't read comics much, so I can't suggest ways to vote in the concurrent poll, but I'd like to see Alan Moore go down. Go! Vote! http://comics.ign.com/articles/646/646667p12.html
I'd feel a lot better about Alan Moore if he had some other way of relating to female characters than Where does the rape come in. Evey? Is introduced by threatened rape. Mina? Is threatened with rape in the first and second issues, and then in the third we meet one of Our Heros raping a schoolful of girls. Whatsername the child of rape in Watchmen, the only female character? I didn't even bother to read From Hell. I can only imagine what he did with Victorian prostitutes.
I mean, leaving aside the creepy-ass WTF-ness, doesn't it show a certain lack of writing ability? Vote Neil!
(I read "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and for a year or two after I was asking people, Is there some other book? Was there some really excellent book that everyone was praising, and I'd accidentally bought the knockoff?)
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Date: 2005-09-29 10:36 am (UTC)The wife and I chatted more about the subject over dinner on Tuesday, but I don't think I could adequately convey her thoughts. If it's something you're interested in discussing with her about, you should talk to her at the con. She's definitely a well-read individual, English degree and all that. And she's pretty savvy to feminist issues. I would not presume to try and distill her knowledge into a post.
I'm responding to this particular item because it brought to mind a question: How would express the awfulness in the world differently? Take "VfV" for example: What would you do to truly express the corruption of the police in a couple of pages of comic book?