Yes: This one have lot of antropomorphic animals who speak, like others from Jason. And, yeah, let's say this is postmodern like; A musketeer (Athos) who live in the XXIth siécle and fight against a martian invasion. Ok, it's very postmodern.
But: What do this Comic-book different from "Propositional Player"? Maybe a lot o things, but I what to talk about one: References.
Use and reuse of references are the identity of Postmodernism: We kwon the codes, and we know that all of you know the codes, so we'll shouldn't have to be naif and we'll assumed that you don't know the codes. Other of the shapes of postmodernity is the re-coded of Histories who all know, specially all kind of mythos: Heaven, Heel, Aprhodite, Janus, Apollo, etc. and look all of this mythos behind a new light, maybe more cynical, more detached. Laugh and amusement: nothing is sacred. No God, no Illustration, all are Great Meta-narrations. Let´s assume all this things: the Metanarrations don't have true values, only are a sort of bunch of such a such things that ancients told and believe. Death to Atenas. Long live to Las Vegas!
Well, say this, let's find us some references to make something new... And yeah, "Propositional Player" looked for this ones on the same place like Neil Gaiman did. And, like I said before, Neil Gaiman did this in a way that was great -like Alan Moore way.
And Jason? Well, Jason look sharper at Pulp and old Ci-fi. Look to Narrative and fictions: Flash Gordon, "Martian Princess", Alexander Dumas' books, Carver, Kafka... and the re-combination is, as always, incredible. Funny, marvellous, irreverent. A good-damn story about people -and martians.
Maybe I feel some boring about all the silly postmodernism: That one that think who doing a new version of "Red Riding" with girls with sub-machineguns, chinesse food, Granny witches and sarcastic were-wolfs it's always original.
Why need we of slaves when we have zombies?
What if Scarlett Witch chage the shape of the world and give what all deep inside wants?
Interesting and funny. In the way that are writing the scripts this is like see a TV series.
I think this book said less than the many comments than produced it. Time pass by this book in a bad way: Bataille comments are, in many cases, outdate. It was wrote in the early 1970 (after 68's May), when we still thinking than work will be the key of our emancipation. Death to bourgeois people and all that things. And all of this can be read on "Eros", but in the form that human being can only been human when be become in "homo faber" and use the work production to make world. All right, I share some of all this stuff, but not in the way that Bataille presented his work.
A great miniserie about (the end?) of The Incredible Hulk. I love Richard Corben. Is one of the best american cartoonist ever (with Eisner, Kirby, and maybe two or three more). The pictures are above the Azzarello's script. Indeed, Corben manages to convey what few writers have managed to: Display the despair and rage of the Hulk. A true master.
I saw this picture in Miquel Barcelo's expositoon on Caixa Forum (Madrid). "La solitude organisative". Impressive.
Mr. Duke, doing Gonzo.
I saw this movie while I was doing other things, so my opinion may be, in some way, unreliable.
I saw the last chapter of the "Dollhouse" 2nd season last Sunday. Episode 13th (Epitaph II) was situated ten years from the episode 12th. Like the last chapters of previously season. Well, I don't know yet if Dollhouse will come back; I hope so. This is not the best Joss Whedon serie but I like it. Second season was better than the first, more deep and amusing.
