Dominic,
you may want to try Alan Moore's "V for Victory" and of course, "Watchmen"
if you enjoy this 'miffic' quality in graphic novels.
Best, Geoffrey
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: comix/fantasy/the real world?
> I take your point Dominic:
> >
> >I think that Miller thinks that his Dark Knight transcends
> >socio-politico-psychological categories such as "fascist", "psychotic",
> >"reactionary" and so forth. He's what one of Terry Pratchett's characters
> >would call "miffic". As always with fantasy, the danger is in trying to
> >inject the "miffic" back into the socio-politico-psychological whose
> >intractable problems it represents as tractable through force of will
and/or
> >muscle power. We all "know" that real social problems aren't resolved
> >through heroic violence (I find myself periodically unable to know this
with
> >the required degree of certainty, but that's another matter). The
villains
> >are equally miffic, fiends and monsters out of all human proportions; and
> >again, the one thing we all know about real villains is that they are
> >ultimately humanly proportioned, albeit in some cases only just.
>
> But sometimes, some of these come closer to the edg than others. Sandman,
> where the superhero isnt really, & dreams always enter the world anyway.
>
> Do you know the appalling but brilliant Preacher? I really do want to get
> League sometime, & can only hope that our libraries will start carrying
> theg raphic novel versions of these things soon.
>
> I haven't read much Pratchett, but, having just read the wonderful, if
> supposedly YA, The Wee Free Men, I would have to say that he actually
seeks
> a rather high morality among at least some of Discworld's peoples. Oh
yeah:
> he's also quite a larf.
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
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>
> I do not limit myself: I imitate
> many fancy things such as the dull red
> cloth of literature, its mumbled griefs
>
> Lisa Robertson
>
>
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