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Arbitrary acts of enigmatic villainy
Jul. 30th, 2007 07:35 pmI expect sour-faced carping from the Standard and its Mini-Me, but I thought the London Paper was meant to be the cheerful alternative, so why are they whining about Boris Johnson's mayoral application? What's wrong with hand-writing an application form? Since when has taking things seriously got anyone anywhere? Labour's Ealing North MP scoffs "He thinks the whole thing is a jape and that causes hoots of laughter among old Etonians. But it will cast a shadow of fear on those of us who live and work in the city." Well, leaving aside the overlap between those categories, are you really saying that only the upper classes have a sense of humour? Because if so, I'd say that was a damn good reason to take their side against the lumpenproletariat.
I was moderately surprised that JK Rowling is already working on more books - not just because she need never work again, but because I'd always had the impression of her as someone with a particular story she wanted to tell, rather than a career writer. But there seemed a certain rightness in learning that "I was writing two things simultaneously for a year before Harry took over. So one will oust the other in due course, and I'll know that's my next thing". Or, to put it in more prophetic terms, neither can live while the other survives...
The BBC's Alistair Burnett discusses the overuse of the word 'crisis': "this [definition] is the nearest to sense in which journalists use it...'a condition of instability or danger, as in social, economic, political, or international affairs, leading to a decisive change'. It seems to me that many journalists have lost sight of the last part about 'leading to a decisive change'."
How much more so DC comics? And yet, aside from the faint hope that the name Final Crisis might actually mean what it says - an end to constant continuity upheavals and megacrossovers, now we learn that Grant Morrison is writing it, and JG Jones is on art. That would be the Grant Morrison who, aside from generally being a genius, wrote DC One Million, the best comics crossover ever. If anyone can save DC from its current unloveability, he's the man. But can anyone?
(Speaking of unloveable comics - the ever-entertaining Paul O'Brien excels himself when dealing with "the worst Wolverine storyline of all time")
I was moderately surprised that JK Rowling is already working on more books - not just because she need never work again, but because I'd always had the impression of her as someone with a particular story she wanted to tell, rather than a career writer. But there seemed a certain rightness in learning that "I was writing two things simultaneously for a year before Harry took over. So one will oust the other in due course, and I'll know that's my next thing". Or, to put it in more prophetic terms, neither can live while the other survives...
The BBC's Alistair Burnett discusses the overuse of the word 'crisis': "this [definition] is the nearest to sense in which journalists use it...'a condition of instability or danger, as in social, economic, political, or international affairs, leading to a decisive change'. It seems to me that many journalists have lost sight of the last part about 'leading to a decisive change'."
How much more so DC comics? And yet, aside from the faint hope that the name Final Crisis might actually mean what it says - an end to constant continuity upheavals and megacrossovers, now we learn that Grant Morrison is writing it, and JG Jones is on art. That would be the Grant Morrison who, aside from generally being a genius, wrote DC One Million, the best comics crossover ever. If anyone can save DC from its current unloveability, he's the man. But can anyone?
(Speaking of unloveable comics - the ever-entertaining Paul O'Brien excels himself when dealing with "the worst Wolverine storyline of all time")
