| Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
08:55 - In a nerdy mood
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1202917823.shtml
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Kevin D. at Dean's World asks who you like better: Batman or Superman?
I lean in the direction of his conclusion—he makes a strong case—and in evidence I cite what I think is my favorite Superman story, which was actually a one-off issue of Garth Ennis' Hitman, titled "Of Thee I Sing". There's way more complexity available to a writer of such a thing than it seems at first glance. Tarantino knew this, hence his Superman monologue in Kill Bill: Part 2.
I had my introduction to "adult" comics like the Batman iterations descended from Frank Miller's in the Caltech Coffeehouse late at night over cheesesticks (eventually settling on Preacher as my yardstick series against which I compare all else); but Kevin is right: Batman does get old and tedious after a while, and all the more so the more brooding he gets. There's never anything new that can happen with his character to make it more complex or appealing. Superman, though—you always get the feeling there's something someone hasn't written down yet. And when they try, it may not ever succeed in answering more questions than it raises, but at least it usually looks very, very pretty.
Meh. Okay, enough of that.
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Brian Tiemann
