- 3+ hrs and 1.3 miles and much fine #SDCC swag later, we've done about half the floor. Time to head back to Mary's and rest. #
- Was amused last night by #SDCC booth worker admiring my 1988 Comic-Con badge … then admitting that's the year he was born. #SilverAged #
- Already beginning to trim back #SDCC panel schedule. Getting a sense for how much I don't want to try to race thru inter-panel crowds. #
- Not much on company panels, but when DC gets Levitz, O'Neill, Straczynski, Simone, Winick, and Robinson all up there … #SDCC #
- And, in a bit of meta-comics panelage, we're at the #SDCC CoH Going Rogue session. So THAT's what all those NCSoft folks look like IRL. #
- Now some Old Skool #SDCC Action at the Groo (et al.) panel with Evanier, Aragones, and Sakai. Avg age is COH Panel + 15 years. #
- Robert Fireman is doing pretty decently, given the line length to his #SDCC panel. Longer than my remaining battery life, at least. #
- And now for something a scosh more scholarly: Marc Guggenheim and Peter David creating, caretakig modern myths. Cool. #SDCC #
- Nerts. Finally had a panel question and the session ran out of time. #SDCC #
- Now for dinner at Lou & Mickey's with Mary & Michelle. Good times. #
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Just saw that the cast of The Big Bang Theory was signing autographs today. If I had known about that, I might have gone. Kaley Cuoco… /sigh
JMS is a good writer, but he didn’t “wow” me until his work on The Brave & the Bold. Did you read the Wonder Woman/Zatanna/Oracle story? /cry
Even where I don’t agree with the story directions JMS has gone in some of his storylines, I always enjoy his writing, if that makes sense. So I always enjoyed his Spider-Man, even if I thought the whole avatar bit was unnecessary. I liked his take on the FF, and very much enjoyed his Thor.
I think he’s doing some triffic stuff on B&B (apparently he got a LOT of hate mail on that one).
So, what were you going to ask that you didn’t get to ask?
So, were was Margie at Dinner?
1. There has been a lot of talk about dealing with changing teams on a book (e.g., PAD having to deal with having put together a whole “Captain Marvel goes crazy” storyline to work with Chris-Cross’s ability to draw crazy people, only to have him leave the book and the series get a string of artists who, well, couldn’t), plus trying to deal with intrusions into stories from company Events (something PAD’s also had to suffer through with X-Factor, IMO).
A big part of the discussion had also been on what makes a character a myth, vs. a character — so, for example, if you ask someone who Superman is, they’ll say, “Oh, he’s the last survivor of Krypton, he can fly, he lives in Metropolis,” as opposed to saying, “Oh, he’s a character played by Chris Reeves” or “He’s a comic book character published by DC.” Or, for example, Sherlock Holmes is “he’s the world’s greatest detective, lives in Victorian London, hangs with Dr. Watson,” before saying, “He’s a fictional character written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, subject of numerous short stories.” In other words, the character becomes mythic when detached from his particular origins / actor /writer.
So I was going to suggest that, while someone’s run on a character (or even a creator-owned character) may be fantastic, the character is not going to become truly mythic unless the character transcends those origins, such that it goes beyond the original publisher, writer, artist, author, playwright, etc. The gods and heroes of the Greek Myths had numerous tales told about them — and have been the subject of retelling and reimaging countless times over the centuries. Superman and Batman have done the same despite being handed off to innumerable writers and different media forms and presentations — in fact, not despite but *because* of it.
Which would have been a much shorter, much less coherent, and much more questiony question had I actually given it.
2. Duh. Margie was sitting with me. Her presence was to be assumed. 🙂