Topic: Kill-this-Thread III:The Thread That Would Not Die
cleome46
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I loved the scene in one of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing stories where the hippie dude starts singing "Tragedy" to himself and then mutters, "Now where'd that come from?"
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cleome46
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Suddenly I'm craving yams. The non-psychedelic variety.
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cleome46
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Though I wonder in retrospect if it's Moore-Thing that officially kicked off the modern-day mania Retcon-mania. If so, are we happy about this, or not, or... ?
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cleome46
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I wonder if anyone's ever compiled a list of all the post-Moore retcons and had the fans rate them on a scale of one to ten.
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cleome46
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I think I tuned back in long enough once to see Wanda exotic dancing while being stalked by her re-animated disguised ex. Then I cried for a week. I've met Busiek at cons a few times and he's a nice guy. Somehow that only made the pain worse.
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cleome46
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Well, he may be as cracky as Yours Truly when writing superheroes, but at least he's figured out how to be paid well for it.
At this point, I'd stop writing crack if somebody offered me money to stop.
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cleome46
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"Crack" in this case being a depiction of characters that makes practically everyone except the writer say, "WTF?"
Slash can be crack and vice versa, I guess. Where one leaves off and the other begins is probably a subject of some controversy, though.
I suppose I shouldn't blame Busiek too much though, since I think Byrne set the stage for many of the atrocities that came to the Avengers later on.
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With Byrne, Busiek, et al., I get the feeling that fanfic has now become mainstream.
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et al comes from the Latin and means "and others"
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