The problem as iI see it is that American comics (mainstream comics so no need to point out how great chester brown is, how anti heroic daniel clowes is etc) are genre crippled, they mostly centre around the same tired super hero, good, bad paradigm view. I find it quite shocking just how aquesient american readers are to the notion that you can rework that ouvre, via the super hero genre again and again in such a tired way. Otherworlds is a great example of medocrity bound into a corporate imperative can celebrate the meanderings of very pedestrian story variations (think bigger cages longer chains and you will be close to what I’m trying to communicate here).

I’ve just finished reading the exit interview with Alan Moore and all 5 Promethia books, and it is clear that Moore is actually trying to rework the genre. He is living a David & Goliath scenario where he is actually tring to free up conceptual space so that the medium can be about more than just the American solipsistic (American Spendour, Yummy Fur) or the good bad world view which has impregnated american culture to the point where the president parrots it like a superhero muppet.

As Moore says about Promethea when accused of being didactic, there are 1000′s of comics which are not about his philosophy and one which is.

BTW I’m totally unsure as to why you bothered comparing Vaughan with Moore as the works exist in a totally alternate paradigm. However putting Moore’s name on the header got my attention, Vaughan’s name would not have…

That’s fucked up.

It just isn’t that satisfying as a punctuated cliff-hanger. It’s really a movie. I will be waiting until season 4 comes out on DVD before watching it again.

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