prankster36 ([info]prankster36) wrote,
@ 2008-05-30 17:04:00
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Fourth World Fridays--The New Gods #9

It's up now.

As I mention at Phantasmic Tales, I'm going to be updating Freak U. only once a week, on sundays, until the end of June. This will let me get everything caught up (including the colouring on the previous strips, which you might have noticed are slowly filling in.)

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(Anonymous)
2008-06-02 09:36 pm UTC (link)
I don't know if memory is improving things, or if it is the reproduction, but the screenshot of "ugly Orion" doesn't match the _lasting_ impression that panel had on this once-nine year old boy. He's like our own rampaging passions, isn't he? There were monsters in that fight...
This was an ...odd issue. Human bugs? I was disturbed by their gassing, just like you. On the other hand, my consciousness seems to have assimilated the bugs themselves to the monsters of Herbert's _Hellstrom's Hive_. Sca-a-ry. Human bugs have no individuality, do they. They don't ask the moral questions. Yes, Forager's human curiosity is so much science fiction cliche. If I had a dime for every yellow-binding DAW imprint of the era that went the say way, I'd have 4--5 bucks, at least.
(Although it would be hard to spend, being in dimes and all.)
But who cares? He has acid that sprays out of his hands, and a boom tube to jump through. And that's cool stuff. All offered to our own imaginations as tools of understanding, their possibilities not foreclosed by resolution.
I don't know about you, Adam, but I'm not afraid to admit that my adult hermeneutics are built on these kinds of things. I still have to remind myself that boom tubes don't actually exist, especially when I read Quentin Skinner talking about the "republican moment" "tunnelling" through history from Machiavelli to America. I may be the only human being who ever read Skinner with the image of Forager leaping from New Genesis to Metropolis, but, hey, one is more than none.
And I know that we regret the cancellation of the Fourth World books, but look what is left open. We are left with the plot part; the part that belongs to human agency.
And we all know how human agency ends. Action leads to judgment, and judgment leads to redemption.
We will all meet Orion once more, at the end.

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[info]prankster36
2008-06-02 10:32 pm UTC (link)
It's all there in Kirby comics, man.

I'm starting to understand how Grant Morrison feels.

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