<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Adrian posted:</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">>On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 6:14:43 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
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>> to it. (This comes to my mind now because I'm plotting Powernaut 1985.)
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>It definitely does remind me of 80s-type "revisionist" superheroes, but I t=
>hink it works a lot better than many examples of that. (Including--potentia=
>l heresy alert!--The Golden LNH-Men, which I felt was kinda underwhelming.)=
> I think that's because it's not aiming for "realism" but for this surreal =
>feeling which reminds me a lot of Bronze Age comics. A lot of Arthur's work=
> reminds me of Steve Gerber--that kind of heightened alienation and weirdne=
>ss.
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>Also, the coloring fits the mood really well.
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>Adrian (Do we have more prose or webcomics at this group right now? Hmm)</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Yeah, I probably lean more to the Gerber/Morrison way of writing superheroes</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">than the Moore way.</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Golden LNH Men probably worked better if you read it like I did back in '94.</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I hadn't read Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns when I first read Golden LNH</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Men so it totally blew my mind. Also at the time the LNH was a lot goofier</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">(with Dave's Constellation being probably the most serious book at the time)</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">so it was kind of a radical read in that pre-LOH era.</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I think the most amazing thing about Golden LNH Men was how fast Jeff wrote</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">it. I think it only took him one or two months to finish the whole thing.</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Plus he was writing a bunch of other great stuff at that time too.</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Arthur "Ah, 1994..." Spitzer</pre></span><div><br></div></body></html>