LNH: Beige Midnight #12: 'The Last LNH Story' (3/3)

[Arthur Spitzer]

On 9/27/12 3:27 PM, EDMLite wrote:
> On Sep 25, 8:59 pm, Arthur Spitzer <arspit... at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> As an ending for a Marvel or DC, it would have probably worked.  But I
>> didn't think it was a good ending for an LNH story.  So I decided to go
>> for a sillier Fourth Wall breaking kind of ending.  And perhaps I hoped
>> that by the time I got to writing Beige Midnight #12 that maybe I'd
>> think up something better than that.  It didn't work out that way.
>
> I thought the ending you gave us was not only in the spirit of the
> LNH,
> but also in the spirit of Beige Midnight itself.
>
> That is to say: amid this big, sprawling epic that stomps its way
> across
> all of time and space, it's the small, personal stories -- like the
> relationship between Ripping Dancer and Fearless Leader -- that really
> stood out, and made me want to keep reading.
>
> 'Beige Midnight' was filled with characters -- like Bart, and Munchkin
> Man, and Mynabird -- who really wanted to be involved in a titanic
> struggle, the kind of thing that Geoff Johns would have spun into
> three or four miniseries at least if this story had taken place in the
> DC universe.  Here, however, those characters ended up looking
> ridiculous even when they succeeded.
>
> The Writer, meanwhile, ended up creating a series of small, beautiful
> moments amid the chaos of an epic catastrophe -- which is no mean
> feat.
> I think someday that 'Beige Midnight' could well be regarded as the
> first LNH novel.

Thank you!  You're much too kind.

I think though that there are LNH stories like Dave's Constellation 
series that could be counted as a novel.

>
> Oh, and I really liked the title of the last chapter, and the fact
> that
> rather than being the last story about the LNH, it's the story
> of the last LNH.  Clever, that.
>
> --Rob Rogers
> --Is looking forward to reading the whole thing again
>

Just don't read it all in one sitting!

Arthur "Don't want to see anyone die that way!" Spitzer