tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37809963.post9115239038624319646..comments2024-03-01T03:46:32.550-05:00Comments on Mr. Morbid's House of Fuckery: "Dark Genesis"Mr. Morbid's House Of Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06721085161381688977noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37809963.post-27138439947890874962011-05-23T13:30:05.254-04:002011-05-23T13:30:05.254-04:00Hey David, read your blog and posted a comment. Th...Hey David, read your blog and posted a comment. That would be a good idea for an SS/ST cross-over. Fun times! Would love to see Waller and Constantine go at it in a debate; I figure he might be the only guy to fluster even the Wall!Mr. Morbid's House Of Funhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721085161381688977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37809963.post-3452890154261435202011-05-22T03:46:15.301-04:002011-05-22T03:46:15.301-04:00Swamp Thing has always been one of my absolute fav...Swamp Thing has always been one of my absolute favorite DC titles. i have a posting on my Suicide Squad blog about a hypothetical encounter between the two:<br />http://suicidesquadtaskforcex.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-didnt-squad-ever-run-into-swamp.htmlShlomo Ben Hungstienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238927958290618109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37809963.post-48261825703980166652011-05-21T18:01:27.811-04:002011-05-21T18:01:27.811-04:00Cool,and thanks for the comments and brief history...Cool,and thanks for the comments and brief history lesson. Much appreciated. I myself am simply content to be happy for Swamp Thing to be back, no matter the way it was done(and yes I know that may sound like I'm being stupid or indifferent to continuity, but this seems like the best way for DC to reintroduce ST to mainstream comic readers, and less worrying about tight, exact- to- the panel continuity. Basically, unless you're already a day hard fan of ST with a deep knowledge of his history, you're going to care more than a casual reader/fan. They need new blood, hence new and reader-friendly introductions/origins. And of course we shouldn't forget about the effects movies have on comic-continuity! <br /><br />Anyways, thanks for interest in the DP skits. My buddy Googum@Randomhappanstance.blogspot.com posts his own DP skits sometimes. He's currently in the process if finishing up DP Idol in case your interested.Mr. Morbid's House Of Funhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721085161381688977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37809963.post-39195388414034059922011-05-21T15:53:13.612-04:002011-05-21T15:53:13.612-04:00Hi Dale! I followed you here from Doompedia (I do ...Hi Dale! I followed you here from Doompedia (I do a different DP blog) and enjoyed the Cliff and Larry sequences you've done over the past year for the simple reason that you've got the personalities right. I was browsing the rest of the current page and noticed the Swamp Thing immediately. It's true that they're bringing him back, but if they're making him a transformed human again, they're making a colossal mistake.<br /><br />Like most people, you've probably been led to believe that closing the door on Alec's chance to be human again was entirely Alan Moore's idea. Moore just came up with the method. In the second issue of the original series Arcane uses sorcery to convince Swamp Thing he could be Alec 'again'. When ST discovers Arcane's reasons, he prefers to suck it up and stay a monster. Len Wein left shortly after Wrightson. The series was cancelled a couple years later and ST became a supporting character in the revived Challengers title, where he DID briefly become human.<br />Flash forward to the early 80's: there's a ST movie and new series to go with it. Martin Pasko is writing it and Len Wein is back as editor. About a year before Alan Moore had ANYTHING to do with the book, one of them answered a letter in the letters' page this way:<br /><br />"As far as we're concerned, the stories published after #21 [in 1976] never happened, that is, Alec never became predominantly human, he never had a brother,...etc." Wein was still the editor when Pasko left abruptly to work in Hollywood and Moore had to finish the story they had already started. Everyone seems to think "Anatomy Lesson" is the first Moore story because it's the earliest one from that series that gets reprinted. It's really just the first one that Moore wrote from his own plot. The whole momentum that pointed where that story was going was Pasko's and Wein's, they just couldn't figure out how to get there. It certainly wasn't done without Wein's approval. Wein figured out back in the 70's that if ST had a good reason to believe he could become Alec for good then every plot of every story would involve pursuing one ineffective cure after another and it would degenerate into formula pretty quickly after that. When Moore brought him that script it meant that he could prevent that happening to the character he created even after he left the book. It was kind of like Moore's way of saying "thank you" for giving him the title.<br />I find the idea of throwing all that away to be disappointing but there are people far more invested in the ST character and they must be livid. I hope this makes their reaction a little less mystifying.pblfsdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07471473189061385119noreply@blogger.com