RACCIES: 2012 (19th Annual) RACCies Ceremony

[Scott Eiler]

On 4/30/2013 8:14 PM, Andrew Perron wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2013 02:52:39 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:
>
>> On 4/30/2013 10:55 AM, Andrew Perron wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>> I know, right? And it's sort of the fact that he's simultaneously this
>>> trickster, this amoral cunning fox, and yet he also has a ridiculous alter
>>> ego who seems to act like a traditional hero. Basically, characters who
>>> have that sort of tension to them are great.
>>
>> Not just a traditional hero, a traditional '40s hero.
>
> Indeed! Who were, of course, allowed to be significantly darker than, say,
> '60s heroes, while still staying within a very specific morality.

And not nearly so angst-ridden as all those 1970s heroes who climbed out 
of Hell.


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When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama

I know. - Archie Andrews

- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.