Willingham on Superheroes

[michaelpaciocco]

Short version here:

robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/01/willingham-no-more-superhero-decadence-for-me/

He gets a lot right here, even with his politics being. However, man, talk about the wrong place to express it, as the commenters at the original place (Big Hollywood, which John Rogers trashed earlier this week in his own blog here: kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/01/big-hollywood-and-why-i-admire-david.html) completely undermines Willingham's other points.

And then there's the guy on multiculturalism.

My brain starts to bleed, but going down the CBR comments, and watching Kurt Busiek PWNing people (left and right) makes up for that.

Michael

[K-Box]

Ah, Big Hollywood. James Urbaniak had already linked to it in his own LiveJournal, and it has all the makings of Epic Fail.

And I think it's very nearly a law of reality that Kurt Busiek Is Correct.

[michaelpaciocco]

I just love the commenters who say that it's all because the Avengers joined the UN and the new Blue Beetle was hispanic. Nevermind that the Jaime Reyes BB held onto a solo title longer than all of Ted's series combined.

[jessebaker]

Jaime's book only lasted a year longer than Ted's and even then, has followed Ted's lead of having been shuttled off to a team book to linger.

So while Jaime has done well critically, he hasn't done all that well commercially, and God knows that the current incarnation of Teen Titans, post-Geoff, is no freaking Giffen League. Jaime would be better off finding a time machine and joining the Legion of the Super-Heroes or even the fracking Outsiders if anything.

That said, I pray Willingham doesn't last long on JSA adn doesn't do much to damage the title while he's there. Geoff Johns did a miracle reviving the JSA brand as a viable book, let alone establishing the JSA as the premire super-hero group of the DCU and an asshat like Willingham could make JSA such a joke that DC will try killing off the group again like they did in 1994.