LNH/REVIEW: Kid Review's Roundup - May 2014

[Tom Russell]

On Sunday, June 8, 2014 2:33:33 AM UTC-4, Andrew Perron wrote:
> On 6/7/2014 4:58 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
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> > Quoth the Perron:
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> >> "So... in the past, Tom's written some really funny stuff - amazing
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> >> kneeslapper gags and character humor. But often - and I think Tom will
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> >> agree here - the humor was *mean*, a lot of it coming from characters
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> >> being inventively cruel to each other. This, however - this story is not
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> >> only less mean, but *more interesting* for it."
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>  > Well, with the Master Blaster stories-- which I just binge re-read the other
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>  > day-- yes, they were definitely mean, mostly because of my interpretation of
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>  > the character as a psychotic bully. Outside of stories featuring Master
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>  > Blaster (and to a degree his foil WikiBoy), I don't think I tended towards
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>  > meanness necessarily.
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> Hm. Let me rephrase. I wouldn't say your humor was mean *exclusively*, but 
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> that... like, if one character was dense and another was frustrated with them, 
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> the insults were usually pretty cutting. (If I remember, correctly. There's a 
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> lot of stuff I need to reread - I just went thru basically every LNH story 
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> Mike Escutia ever wrote, and I've started working on the early Dvandom stuff.)

Gotcha.

And remember, pretty much everything LNH I wrote before Net.Heroes on Parade has been elsewhirled, so please feel free to pretend that body of work never existed. (Sometimes I sure do...)

==Tom