tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post113489658245849637..comments2024-01-01T05:14:46.672-05:00Comments on Double Articulation: On Allusion: All-Star Superman and “The Golden Apples of the Sun”Jim Roeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16381244745309535742noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-18849640791592324672010-07-14T09:32:43.202-04:002010-07-14T09:32:43.202-04:00Grand Morrison was my favorite criminal too. He de...Grand Morrison was my favorite criminal too. He definitely is the rude person that I've seen. This stuff is fascinating.viagra onlinehttp://www.safemeds.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1163712013048061722006-11-16T16:20:00.000-05:002006-11-16T16:20:00.000-05:00Thank you mate.I've been obsessing with this serie...Thank you mate.<BR/><BR/>I've been obsessing with this series. I'm thinking this is the most brilliantly played modernistic self-awareness without breaking narrative storytelling (the awareness of it's appreciation doesn't actually break the appreciation -- the meta that doesn't fear falling in the story and that just distances itself).<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, in my reading, it's been<BR/><BR/>#1 introduction to our manned sun mission.<BR/><BR/>#2 and #3 misogyny in comics and old Superman's stories (readers' power fantasies and power plays). Purging it? Mocking it? Actually being it? Being it for parody?<BR/><BR/>#3 Venusian presence through it's too-obvious absence (and baiting readers through TopGun's homoerotic machismo and reptilian territorial dispute).<BR/><BR/>#4 readership's wanting for grittyness, grimyness and overtly supermacho macho-seriousness.<BR/><BR/>#5 purging TopDog Moby Dick through Joycean-Ulyssean mock-satire aimed at Lex's/our (Clark-Superman-Supermeek) desire of being in power in the most appropriate place of all to do so: prison!<BR/><BR/>I'd love to hear more of your views about the other issues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1162694203034921312006-11-04T21:36:00.000-05:002006-11-04T21:36:00.000-05:00My pleasure, anon, and thanks for commenting. Off...My pleasure, <B>anon</B>, and thanks for commenting. Offhand, I can't think of any other readings of <I>All-Star Superman</I> that approach it in quite this way, but I know that <A HREF="http://geoffklock.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Geoff Klock</A> has a book called <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Superhero-Comics-Why/dp/0826414192" REL="nofollow"><I>How to Read Superhero Comics and Why</I></A> that combines literary criticism with superhero analysis that has been very well-received (not sure if he addresses Supes). There's also a collection of essays called <A HREF="http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/superheroes.htm" REL="nofollow"><I>Superheroes and Philosophy</I></A> that I haven't read, but looks interesting. And I had more to say about the second issue of <I>All Star Superman</I> <A HREF="http://doublearticulation.blogspot.com/2006/02/spoilers-abound-occasional-digest-of.html#ASS2" REL="nofollow">here</A>, in case you haven't stumbled on it yet. Thanks for reading.Jim Roeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381244745309535742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1162644329854384822006-11-04T07:45:00.000-05:002006-11-04T07:45:00.000-05:00Hi mate.D'ya have any reading that comes similar t...Hi mate.<BR/><BR/>D'ya have any reading that comes similar to your reading of ASS or Superman in general in terms of Blakenian, esoteric, literary, jungian etc?<BR/><BR/>Thank you in advance (and immensily for your text. Been reading again and again like there's no tomorrow)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1138087064576719722006-01-24T02:17:00.000-05:002006-01-24T02:17:00.000-05:00Enjoyed the analysis, and great find with that gol...Enjoyed the analysis, and great find with that golden Icarus painting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1136311475535427642006-01-03T13:04:00.000-05:002006-01-03T13:04:00.000-05:00Jon - Nice! That hadn't occurred to me, but it's ...<B>Jon</B> - Nice! That hadn't occurred to me, but it's hard to do better than Kubric for sheer space age wonder.<BR/><BR/><B>Chong</B> - Thanks for this great analysis (I second David's comment, above). I haven't seen either of these shows (!) but I love the connections you draw - especially the point about ASS #1's historically totalizing representation of Superman stories, from Golden Age to present continuity. Morrison: master of the "open" myth, achieved through repetition. Thanks again.<BR/><BR/><B>David</B> - Thanks for the kind words, and I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed "Golden Apples of the Sun" and even passed it on. I know what you mean about the moralizing in some of Bradbury's stories; I think "GAOTS" evades this problem by introducing so many tensions into the story's symbolic system, which seem to run interference with Bradbury's tendency to moralize. Congratulations on your marriage!Jim Roeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381244745309535742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1136273483681514532006-01-03T02:31:00.000-05:002006-01-03T02:31:00.000-05:00While down the coast for my honeymoon, I pulled ou...While down the coast for my honeymoon, I pulled out a print-out of your copyright-flouting reproduction. Thanks! I've read Bradbury a little before, the collection <I>Illustrated Man</I>. I thought there were a few nice shorts, along the lines of Borges in space, but most of them were like bad educational stories, morals disguised as anecdotes. "Golden Apples of the Sun", however, is supercharged with wonderfulness. After my honeymoon I immediately handed it to a friend and he loved it too. So, again, thanks!<BR/><BR/>Brilliant analysis of ASS, too.<BR/><BR/>(And thanks also to Chong Rutherford for making the <I>first</I> interesting comment about Quintum's coat.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1136057911073776192005-12-31T14:38:00.000-05:002005-12-31T14:38:00.000-05:00I thought about 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolo...I thought about 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' (both the show and the history of the show). 'Joseph' was a throwaway show with some fun numbers, but after 'Jesus Christ Superstar' 'Joseph' became it's own show (anything Webber became great). The show itself is interesting, with fun tunes, and a lot of it is style pastiche--nothing rooted in any one style, all of it dedicated to familiar modernism over the core story. And, while it existed, none of it possible in austentatious, Donny Osmond levels of mass acceptance without the success of 'Jesus Christ: Superstar.'<BR/><BR/>By the same token, Quintum owes his existance to Superman, so in metatext, 'Joseph' owes it's existance and success to 'Superstar'. All comic books and their progeny owe their existance to Superman. And that first issue moves from the Golden Age to the present, the absolute present where Lois Lane knows that Clark Kent is Superman. So, everything that follows is rebirth, and very very new.<BR/><BR/>Great article!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1135796058290934362005-12-28T13:54:00.000-05:002005-12-28T13:54:00.000-05:00When I saw the image of Superman under the sun I w...When I saw the image of Superman under the sun I was reminded of Kubric's 2001: A Space Odessyjoncormierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00865627865285684437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1135225828044308512005-12-21T23:30:00.000-05:002005-12-21T23:30:00.000-05:00Wow--thanks for the nice words everyone.Wow--thanks for the nice words everyone.Jim Roeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381244745309535742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1135203400579905572005-12-21T17:16:00.000-05:002005-12-21T17:16:00.000-05:00fabulous reading.fabulous reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1135200780346603652005-12-21T16:33:00.000-05:002005-12-21T16:33:00.000-05:00Fan-damn-tastic.Fan-damn-tastic.Mr. Ricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03221098688529569487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1135184134752748842005-12-21T11:55:00.000-05:002005-12-21T11:55:00.000-05:00Really fascinating stuff, Jim... you've uncovered ...Really fascinating stuff, Jim... you've uncovered a lot of layers of material that I'd never quite picked up on... thanks for writing this.Joghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05095286799395371919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604760.post-1134943902532997332005-12-18T17:11:00.000-05:002005-12-18T17:11:00.000-05:00magnificent.magnificent.Leigh Waltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00964802750317393614noreply@blogger.com