LNH/REVIEW: Kid Review's Roundup - May 2014
Andrew Perron
pwerdna at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 22:50:22 PDT 2014
On 6/7/2014 3:52 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:> On 6/7/2014 11:31 AM, Andrew Perron
wrote:
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>> "This is the second year that Scott's done the awards ceremony. And
>> while last year's ceremony at least tipped its hat to the traditional
>> McCoskey/Rosen/Brenton/Spitzer/me style of awards, focusing on a behind-
>> the-scenes story and commercial skits over awards-giving."
>
> .... I *think* I know what you're saying. The sentence probably says in the
> middle, "This year's doesn't".
Er, right.
>> "Which, by the way, is 100% cool. I cite a bunch of other writers up
>> there when talking about style, but really, I stretched out the
>> awarding-bits more than anyone, and Scott taking the precise opposite
>> tack is just what's needed to keep things fresh after twenty freakin'
>> years."
>
> I vaguely recall hearing at RACC-Con that people like to skip to the awards
> list anyway. And I love giving the people what they want. That said... I
> might have to mix things up next year.
Interesting - I always really liked the skits (obviously, right?) But yes,
absolutely mix things up.
>> "As for the ceremony itself, it has the type of freeform silliness that
>> you expect from Scott.
>
> ah, I'm glad that after driving my own story-Earth into an apocalyptic ice age
> I'm still known for silliness. 8{D>
It was a surprisingly ridiculous apocalpyse!
>> "Notably, it pays more attention to how the
>> RACCies as a Thing would work than most showrunners, who just go with
>> the idea that they're the characters, but out of character. But that's
>> just doing the Funny in a different way, yaknow?"
>
> That's mostly my inner story-nerd expressing itself.
I figured as much!
>> "Naturally everything Powernaut-related is as fun as ever, and I notice
>> from looking at the web page that Scott is intentionally trying to vary
>> the faces more as compared to Powernaut comics that take place before
>> this. Very cool."
>
> Thanks. That's mostly because I'm trying to emulate an underground comics art
> style on top of my own cartooning style. Expect weird results. I promise
> I'll be back to mass-market corporate pap in time for the 1976 series,
> though. 8{D>
I hope it's not Oreo Oblivion flavor.
>> "But the part I find most fascinating is the alt-history idea that the
>> Space Race was put aside in favor of the Universe Race. It makes a lot
>> of sense - you still had the same tensions and the same desire to prove
>> one's country superior in a big, PR-friendly way, so why not reroute
>> them into a newly-discovered field of scientific endeavor? I wonder if
>> this feeds into the main Superhuman World history, or is another branch
>> of fractal time?"
>
> ah, that's a good question. To some extent, we already know the answer.
> Powernaut 2005 comics show that someone *dressed up* as a Powernaut to raid
> France in 1941, and someone from the counter-culture *called himself* a
> Powernaut in 1968, but the only Powernaut who's really remembered as a
> superhero was in 1992. And nobody in 2005 is going through teleportals.
> There are a lot of stories left to explain how that all comes to be, and 1969
> is definitely one of those. Oh, and the 2005 diagram of Fractal Time maaaay
> be missing a dimension or two. 8{D>
Deeply fascinating. <3 You, sir, are our Grant Morrison.
Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, isn't sure who he is.
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