tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63455772024-03-13T06:04:03.178-04:00The HurtingYou're older stuff was funnier. LOL<a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2014/01/ten-years-of-terror.html#comment-1206058638">*</a>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.comBlogger1410125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-13955769002054403192023-10-11T10:53:00.002-04:002023-10-11T10:53:27.719-04:00Everybody’s Rockin’<p><i>Catch up with the first incarnation of the series by </i><a href="https://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/search/label/everybody%27s%20rocking" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">following this link</a><i>. </i></p><p><i>Subscribe to the second volume of </i>The Hurting Gazette,<i> a free weekly newsletter </i><a href="https://tinyletter.com/TeganONeil5000" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">available here, right now</a><i>. Sign up today and catch up with the archives - subsequent weeks feature writing about Tina Turner, Heaven 17, the Cars, and Steely Dan. This week’s newsletter, when it ships tomorrow, will have a brand new essay about Jimi Hendrix. </i></p><p><i>And remember, the newsletter also has all my links, anime recommendations, new fiction, Udder Madness updates, and even reader mail. It’s a blast. If that’s not enough, remember </i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/the_hurting_" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">I got a Patreon too,</a><i> because it is dark and the wolves are out there.</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cCH_gpTZYns" width="320" youtube-src-id="cCH_gpTZYns"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">3. Bananarama - “Only Your Love”</span></p><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Perhaps the greatest gift I gave myself across my fraught mid-thirties was an abiding love for Bananarama. On the precipice of a crossroads, vexed by the awareness of a looming dark night of the soul I saw a Bananarama record in the store. And my goodness, but don’t those ladies look like they’re having a good time!</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s easy music to love, in small doses. Like cake frosting, almost. You think because it’s sweet it doesn’t have weight, but listen enough and you’ll hear. You get sick if you gorge. There’s a totalizing energy, the greater sum of those three voices singing in perfect unison atop a just slightly more ahead of the curve aesthetic than you might think. If you hadn’t been specifically looking. Somehow these women have absolutely impeccable punk credentials. Paul Cook gave them a place to live when they were living at the WCA, and that place to live just happened to be above the Sex Pistol’s old rehearsal space. If you know anything at all about Bananarama, it might just be that factoid. They named themselves after a line in a Roxy Music song. What if the post-punkers started a girl group?</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then there’s this number, “Only Your Love.” Released 1990. Produced by the bassist of Killing Joke, I shit you not. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This absolutely unorthodox group of people somehow came together in an intentional parody of the girl group form and made it stick. First album, 1983’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Deep Sea Skiving</span>, has a different mood entirely. It’s closer to that engagement with post punk than you might remember. Their first ever single was in Swahili - “Aie a Mwana.” Cover of a disco song from Belgium by a pan-African combo - Black Blood. That was 1981. Think about that in the context of what was happening musically at the time, what was being played on the charts, at least on that side of the pond. I’d rather listen to Bananarama than Public Image, Ltd. any day of the week.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And you can certainly say they sanded some of those edges off to achieve international pop stardom. No one disputes that. But the interesting thing is, even if came to sound just a bit more in tune with pop radio than the college chart, the group never quite lost the understanding that they were originally pressed from a different ore. Their music was confident, not without a hint of sass. They traveled in a pack and knew how to talk shit. Their presence as a trio of equals on the front of the stage cast an impressive profile in an era and a space dominated by solo pop divas.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, first thing that jumps out at you about the track - doesn’t just jump out, absolutely <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">throttles</span> you - is that sample. Yep, jumps right out - “Loaded,” by Primal Scream. And you might hear the Stone Roses, “Fools Gold,” too. (“Funky Drummer is in there, as well, but you’d probably have an easier time finding a song from 1990 that <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">didn’t</span> have “Funky Drummer.”) “Only Your Love” was recorded in March of 1990 - “Fools Gold” dropped in late Fall of 1989, “Loaded” in February of ‘90. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Of course</span> the guy from Killing Joke was paying attention to what was, improbably, at that moment both very popular and very good. The guy from Killing Joke was a producer, incidentally, working under the name Youth, known to the government as Martin Glover.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Unfortunately, the fact that this song sounded so absolutely contemporary to an interesting moment in the pop history of the UK meant that the group was as good as saying goodbye to the American pop charts. Indeed, this song wasn’t even released as a single in the United States. The group would continue to have success in their native lands, but less so. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In hindsight the inflection point was probably the change in personnel. The group started as a trio, forming in September 1980. I’m precisely as old as Bananarama. Sara Dallin and Karen Woodward knew each other first, then met Siobhan Fahey after they loved to London from Bristol. That’s where they fell in with one another, met Paul Cook, and began their improbable rise. The original trio was together eight years, after which point Fahey left. She later resurfaced as Shakespeare’s Sister. Dallin and Woodward found a replacement, Jacquie O’Sullivan, who lasted three years, through the recording of the <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Pop Life</span> album for which this was recorded. O’Sullivan left after that, and ceding to the inevitable Bananarama have been a duo ever since, and as well never again troubled the conscience of the American listener. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So was <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Pop Life</span> a departure? Definitely. They were saying goodbye to the production team of Stock Aitken Waterman that had produced many the hits from their mid-80s commercial zenith. Eurobeat, such as it was, didn’t conquer the States but had a respectable run on the charts, thanks to the likes of Bananarama, as well as Kylie Minogue’s first American eruption. The “SAW” team were responsible for Rick Astley’s career, or at least the recording of that song you’ve heard so many more times than you ever expected. But, even as Eurobeat was a minority proposition in the States, it was still a legible sound. Going back to your roots, so to speak, checking back in to contemporary British post-punk with a trip to Madchester, that was not something that stood a ghost of a chance of stirring a pulse in the United States. The Stone Roses were a college band over here, for their sins. Music like that wasn’t getting played on the radio in this country.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My goodness, though, but that was <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">definitely</span> our loss. I don’t know if “Only Your Love” is even the best song on the album. Don’t get me wrong, “Only Your Love” comes out of those speakers like a house on fire, but “Tripping on Your Love” is a masterpiece. The girl group goes acid house, pure pop confection. One of the best dance pop songs of its era - sadly a fizzle in the UK, where the album as a while generally seemed to underperform. That single was released in 1991, and for once actually did better in the States, at least on the dance charts. It’s a great dance song, for what it’s worth. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As pop songs go, “Only Your Love” is a real kick in the chops. Because, yes, I was being coy earlier, but it really does lead with <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">that</span> sample, right up front, big as shit. That takes chutzpah. It wasn’t the first song to get by with some chutzpah, the window was just at that moment beginning to close on that interesting moment when people were somehow sampling whatever the hell they wanted - KLF blazing the pop charts with the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” will do by way of example. That moment did not last very long, as most groups anywhere near as big as The Rolling Stones clamped down on the kind of casually transformative sampling that enabled Bananarama and the bassist from Killing Joke to sample “Sympathy for the Devil” for the pop charts, even down to those ragged “woo woos” we all know so well. They added a little piano, like a lot of dance songs are the time, just sort of going off in the background. There’s a breakdown towards the end where the group could easily have stuck some kind of guest rap, which was the move in 1990 on both sides of the Atlantic. Hell, they did it themselves on “Tripping on Your Love.” But no, they fill out the song with attitudinal taunts of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">“na na na na na na na,” </span>a saucy call-and-response.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As a memory of a moment “Only Your Love” is a pop song that could only have ever existed at one place and in one time, the product of a band that may have been strained internally but still had an ear for a hook and the enormous swag to sell it. I believe the kids call it “rizz.” Go to your computers, right now, and watch the video for “Only Your Love.” <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">That’s</span> rizz, right there. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Admittedly, three women in unison isn’t always the easiest sound to pull off. Familiarity with their catalog reveals a few instances where the approach struggled. But that’s no different than any band built around a certain kind of vocal style, just like like the Bee-Gees and their confounding male falsetto. Sometimes it doesn’t work, but when it works, well, <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">damn.</span> “Only Your Love” is the audio equivalent of getting hit by a train, if that train just happened to be conducted by three gorgeous women who probably weren’t taking the whole enterprise as seriously as you might think. That’s the only way the train ever left the station in the first place, after all. Tie me to the tracks.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BgdsMxbz8Rs" width="320" youtube-src-id="BgdsMxbz8Rs"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-8587738759023898222023-09-26T08:45:00.000-04:002023-09-26T08:45:25.403-04:00Everybody’s Rockin’<p><i>Howdy, folks! We here at The Hurting are extraordinarily proud to once again embark on regular updates, beginning with the return of an old chestnut - </i>Everybody’s Rockin’.<i> (You can catch up with the first incarnation of the series by </i><a href="https://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/search/label/everybody%27s%20rocking" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">following this link</a><i>.) The feature has been revived for the occasion of the second volume of </i>The Hurting Gazette,<i> a free weekly newsletter </i><a href="https://tinyletter.com/TeganONeil5000" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">available here, right now</a><i>. Sign up today and catch up with the archives - subsequent weeks feature writing about Bananarama, Tina Turner, and Heaven 17. This week’s newsletter, when it ships tomorrow, will have a brand new essay about The Cars. </i></p><p><i>New installments of </i>Everybody’s Rockin’<i> will appear here about a month after they appear in the newsletter, so if you like what you see here you can always go catch up on the newsletter archive. And remember, the newsletter also has all my links, anime recommendations, new installments of Jacqueline Thousand, Udder Madness updates, and even reader mail. It’s a blast. If that’s not enough, remember </i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/the_hurting_" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">I got a Patreon too,</a><i> because it’s a cold world, baby.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r0qBaBb1Y-U" width="320" youtube-src-id="r0qBaBb1Y-U"></iframe></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;">Phil Collins - “Sussudio”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Do you like Phil Collins? I’m serious. It’s a serious question.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I happen to like Phil Collins. Now, I should specify, I think Phil with Genesis is preferable, and I have a further preference for the 80s material. I’ve heard the early Genesis, yes, with and without Peter Gabriel. I have the box set, somewhere in the infinity of storage lockers. But, for all the prog bands that found chart success as pop acts in the 1980s - a surprisingly large list! Genesis always seemed the least grudging. They seemed to rather like writing songs for the radio, when they got around to it. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In hindsight a natural progression. In the beginning they were certainly prog. And not just any prog, but among the very best, the utmost arch, with ambitions more pertaining to art school than Tolkien. Early Genesis had the advantage of being the incubator for Peter Gabriel. Despite both Peter Gabriel and Genesis enjoying extensive chart success in the decade after they broke up, their music together was the least outwardly commercial of their respective careers. And yet, after splitting, both parties gradually began to incorporate pop hooks and concision into their repertoire. “Solsbury Hill” hit the airwaves in 1977, Genesis’ “Follow You Follow Me” in 1978. A rare example of lead singer departing a band and both parties going in a poppier direction, just separately. In both cases their gradual blossoming as short form songwriters seemed freeing, in a way it rarely seems for established artists. You can argue the results, perhaps, but there’s no getting around the fact that <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Invisible Touch</span> and <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">So</span> were released about a month apart in 1986. Both monumentally successful in an era defined by monumental successes, and proven as enduring as anything else from that era. And let’s not forget, Mike + the Mechanics also got in a few good licks in those very profitable years. They charted with a really spooky number, “Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground).” Genuinely eerie. It feels very contemporary, if a little on the nose for the present moment.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In any event - what a remarkable group left turn for the arty bunch who did <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway!</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, I liked Genesis the moment I heard them - this would have been the mid-80s, around <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Invisible Touch</span>. Is that the first example of my tastes veering significantly from my parents? They didn’t hate Genesis, I just think they wondered why I did. They hadn’t cared one whit for prog, neither of them, and raised me listening to the music they did, simply by virtue of them being adults and having access to the car stereo. On reflection I don’t think my mother found Phil Collins’ voice a pleasant sensation. She quite liked Peter Gabriel, and so did I for that matter. But she didn’t care for Genesis. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And if she didn’t care for Genesis you can just imagine what she thought of Phil Collins solo. Truth be told, I hadn’t given the solo material much airing myself. It doesn’t have the best reputation, in hindsight. Or at least, it didn’t - I realize I’m speaking in present tense by way of decades’-old critical consensus that may have itself evolved in the years since last I looked. It’s probable that the poptimists already rehabilitated our boy. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Sussudio” came out in 1985. Collins wouldn’t release another solo album until 1989, three years from <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Invisible Touch. </span>Not that any lag time should have mattered. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">No Jacket Required</span> sold twelve million copies, just in the United States. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">. . . But Seriously</span> “only” sold four.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So - first of all, it’s not why we’re here necessarily, but “Take Me Home”? That’s a jam, right there. That’s what I got stuck in my head, prior to making the conscious choice to go listening to Collins’ hits. In hindsight, very contemporary of its era. In terms of the kind of club music being played in the clubs, or even college radio at that time, it’s not incompetent. It’s actually really good. Even if you hate the guy, you have to acknowledge: hand to the Bible, “Take Me Home” is a jam. How the hell did a guy like <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">that</span> figure it out?</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How, indeed! And you’d not be wrong for thinking him about the most unlikely candidate to provide serious competition for the likes of Michael Jackson and Madonna, during both of their commercial heydays. To say nothing of Prince, to whom Collins surely owed very much, as “Sussudio” demonstrates. In hindsight it seems like it must have been some kind of fluke of nature. At a certain moment in time a chemical reaction occurred in the brain of Phil Collins, mild mannered British musician, whereat he figured out precisely how to make a song he knew was going to get played on the radio and sell a lot of records. There’s a pleasantly workmanlike quality to those eighties records, perhaps also mistaken for insincere. Honestly, I think there has to be more than a little bit of awareness on his part as to that fact. Anyone <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">that</span> good at making a product that other people would find ingratiating enough to bring into their lives must also on some level cherish a small degree of contempt for that same audience. I learned that from Stan Lee. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Solo Phil doesn’t care about producing something you’re <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">going</span> to want<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">,</span> or that you <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">think</span> you want. He figured out the trick to jumping straight to making something people <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">like</span>. Just that eagerness to please, leaping over preference to reflex, is disconcerting for many, I believe. Not everyone likes the sound of Phil Collins voice, so the fact that he proved uniquely gifted at writing very memorable songs is the source of no small enmity.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To be fair, I partially inherited this bias from a comic book. “Sussudio” is a punchline in <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Ambush Bug,</span> specifically <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Son of Ambush Bug</span> #1, where the song proves foul enough to flush the title character out of a bar. It’s a memorable gag. They’re right, of course. If you don’t like Phil Collins, it is a terrible song. Getting an annoying song stuck in your head is considered by many a fate worse than death. I’m pretty sure that’s why my mom never cared for him.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, me, I like Phil Collins. But even I had to peel back my ears to give this one a fresh airing. Did you know who did the horns for that song? If you already know, this isn’t for you, but I’m willing to bet at least a few of you don’t. They’re not programmed. They might <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">sound</span> programmed because they were both precise and very powerful, compressed to sound percussive coming out of cheap speakers. But that’s not a synthesizer, that’s the motherfucking Fenix Horns. You know, from motherfucking Earth, Wind, and Fire. Collins was working with a guy named David Frank, who would go on to have a discography as long as your arm in the world of R&B. Played synthesizers and keyboards. An extraordinarily talented support crew. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But that 909 is credited to Collins. He knew how to drum and he also very clearly knew how to program a drum, which isn’t something you see very often. He knew what a beat should sound like. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The song itself is about as much of a trifle as you could ever expect to see - there’s a girl that’s been on this guy’s mind, you see. He thinks about her all the time. Etc. You know the score. Her name is “Sussudio.” Of course, that’s probably not her real name. Probably just a cutesy nickname he has for someone who <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">he</span> knows very well, but who, we are told, doesn’t even know his name. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All very unexceptional, as these things go. The stuff of rock & roll - no, the stuff of popular music since the dawn of time. I love a girl, she doesn’t love me, oldest story in the book.<br /><br />What’s maybe not so expected is the willingness to play the schmuck. Sadly not an active participant in his own desires. A familiar and common, if under-discussed area of humiliation. Straight men aren’t supposed to know about yearning fruitlessly. That’s a secret. For <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">lesbians</span>.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another treatment of a similar sensation - “Anything She Does,” from <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Invisible Touch</span>. One of a handful of pop songs to touch on man’s relationship to their favorite pin-up model, a topic of no small pathos for many reasons profound and pathetic. A good song, a rocker on an album stuffed to the brim with good songs.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And that’s where we’re left with Mr. Collins. A guy who put out albums stuffed to the brim with good songs at a fair clip for many years. Just knew how to do it, just like you or I might know how to trim a hedge or bake a chicken. Someone who played drums for a prog band in the early 70s. Genesis wasn’t his first band. He wasn’t even the first drummer <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Genesis</span> had. He had to audition for the gig. Can you imagine such a thing! Such is history, to pivot on such formalities. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5SZXJrZcxLM" width="320" youtube-src-id="5SZXJrZcxLM"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><br /></div>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-53369558870586993232023-09-19T09:51:00.000-04:002023-09-19T09:51:55.545-04:00Everybody’s Rockin’<p><br /></p><p><i>Howdy, folks! We here at The Hurting are extraordinarily proud to once again embark on regular updates, beginning with the return of an old chestnut - </i>Everybody’s Rockin’.<i> (You can catch up with the first incarnation of the series by </i><a href="https://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/search/label/everybody%27s%20rocking" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">following this link</a><i>.) The feature has been revived for the occasion of the second volume of </i>The Hurting Gazette,<i> a free weekly newsletter </i><a href="https://tinyletter.com/TeganONeil5000" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">available here, right now</a><i>. Sign up today and catch up with the archives - subsequent weeks feature writing about Phil Collins, Bananarama, and Tina Turner. This week’s newsletter, when it ships tomorrow, will have a brand new essay about Heaven 17. </i></p><p><i>So, we’ve already got a nice stockpile. New installments of </i>Everybody’s Rockin’<i> will appear here about a month after they appear in the newsletter, so if you like what you see here you can always go catch up on the newsletter archive. And remember, the newsletter also has all my links, anime recommendations, new installments of Jacqueline Thousand, Udder Madness updates, and even reader mail. It’s a blast. If that’s not enough, remember </i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/the_hurting_" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">I got a Patreon too,</a><i> and much like the city, it cries for vengeance. </i></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oALKAh_bL5g" width="320" youtube-src-id="oALKAh_bL5g"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">Introduction; The Bee-Gees - “Jive Talkin’”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have spent my life for many years in vacation from myself, a sorely lamentable set of circumstances that restricted my every choice and deed for half a decade. What’s more, this period of struggle was itself preceded by an era of intellectual rigor and subsequent nervous breakdown that left me in little shape to read anything or listen to any music other than what I already knew well.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The situation was, in essence, that the portion of my brain responsible for processing new sensations was almost completely quiescent, as I simply didn’t have the emotional or intellectual bandwidth to concentrate on anything whatsoever. I didn’t even read very many comics during the period, only whatever I wrote about for the <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Journal.</span> As the period continued, I gradually began to stir my faculties, enough for at least a renewed engagement with comics. It was, I reasoned, that factor in my life in which I had so far achieved the most lasting success. I have a bit of notoriety, a steady gig that actually pays a little, the goodwill of a fair percentage of the community. Those aren’t things to take for granted. Whatever I build from this point forward, if anything, has to be on that foundation.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">However, I have lived many lives. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In another time and another place I wrote a great deal about music. In truth, I believe I wrote too much about music, because I burnt out by writing as much as I did. I burnt a lot of bridges when I flamed out of music writing. No defense. Simply fell apart in a lot of arenas of my life around that time. Not a good time in my life, in hindsight. Music writing had become a burden, but literally everything had become a burden. That’s when I left the <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Journal</span>, as well.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Once upon a time I greatly enjoyed it. I was knowledgeable about some things, could do my research on others. Learned an incredible amount about music by being open minded at a semi-professional level. But I did too much of it. It made me hate a lot of things about music. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I do miss getting free stuff, not going to lie. But I’m sure it’s all digital these days. I’m still on a great many music promotions mailing lists that never update or purge, however, so every now and again I get a sneak of something I enjoy. A nice little present from another time in my life, perhaps. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(They never purge: I’m still on promo lists, I’m pretty sure, dating back to when I did college radio. I haven’t done college radio in almost twenty years. It was a big part of my life for a surprisingly long period of time, and frankly I do miss it.) </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Over the subsequent years I continued to write about music, but never new music, and only on my blog. I don’t know how many of my readers cared about me talking about Daft Punk’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Homework</span> - twice! I was so out of it I wrote the same article twice, years apart! But that I did. Wrote a whole booklet’s worth of essays about They Might Be Giant’s premillennial output - it’s available as an ebook on the ol’ Patreon - <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Whistling in the Dark - A (Very) Short Book About They Might Be Giants</span>. Wrote about Fleetwood Mac and Fatboy Slim. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I also started a series. It actually made it to four whole essays, which - long time readers of the blog should remember - was a rarity for me. I always trailed off from ambitious essay series I’d start. I’m sure it was frustrating for readers - how do you think it felt for me? But I made it through four essays under the rubric <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Everybody’s Rockin’. </span>Wrote about Nine Inch Nails, The Beatles, Pavement, Kanye - it was another world, in so many ways, believe me! But, that notwithstanding, I really enjoyed writing those essays and had every intention of doing more, but for the fact that they were written during a period of my life in which I had no ability to follow through on anything at all. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And as these years have progressed I have moved further away from a steady engagement with new music. That’s not who I ever wanted to be. But I simply didn’t have it in me to do anything else. It was a source of great unease at the time, to be frank - I remember admonishing myself, that I really needed to listen to newer music than the same old stuff. But it apparently takes effort to learn new things. The bandwidth was full. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But I know that has to change, and I’ve been taking steps to reengage. I find I don’t have a lot of occasion to listen to music, but I should probably change that. I never wear my headphones in this house. I need to be aware of what the cats are doing at all times for so long as Rodger treats his poor brother like open sport, is the truth of the matter.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was in this spirit that, on a particular peevish errand one bitter hot morning I found myself flipping to the Essential Bee-Gees playlist. Now, as a rule, I can’t stand the Bee-Gees. I’m sorry if that renders me a cultureless cretin in your eyes, I just don’t find their voices pleasant. Their brand of male falsetto strikes me almost like a bird call. Someone upset that poor bird.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And yet, the other day I happened to hear a song - a song which, I assure you, I had heard many times before in my life, even if rarely registering it over the level of supermarket loudspeaker, or the occasional afternoon’s dive on the oldie’s station - called “Jive Talkin’.” And let me tell you something about this song - hear it once, and you’re gone. You have that drumbeat in your head for the rest of the day, and that inconceivable keyboard fake outro. The most asinine little melody that you probably know by heart. Because, even if you hate the Bee-Gees, you have heard that song and that keyboard outro many, many times in your life.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. I was just trying to give myself something to think about other than the aforementioned peevish errand. So I pulled up the song and actually listened to it. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">For real</span> listened to it. And you know, it really is a little miracle. You think it’s a slick disco number, because you’ve only heard it over shitty supermarket speakers, or not for years otherwise. But if you listen to the song, for real, it’s not overproduced at all. It’s not a slick disco song. It’s a funk song. Stripped down, too. Whatever the hell those boys are singing about, the drummer’s getting it done. I just checked and its a man named Dennis Byron. Welsh fellow. I guess they know how to funk in Wales. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s actually kind of simple, when you break it down. Not a lot of frills. Clean, of course, but that just meant you could hear everything pretty well. Got a kind of nasty baseline, in a polite sort of way. If you’re not careful, you might mistake the opening percussive guitar for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s intro to “Modern Love” eight years later. Can’t say Bowie didn’t nick a trick himself. The sound James Murphy devoted his life to trying to replicate in a laboratory.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But then, there’re those weird dudes. The brothers. An uncanny bunch. Knew from a young age, apparently, that they were going to be professional musicians, and set about a lifetime of chasing trends. I say that with affection, mind. Trend chasing has a bad rap, but only because its usually a sign of desperation or inauthenticity, a break from the norm as opposed to the whole deal. It usually doesn’t work. But the thing about chasing a trend is sometimes you can actually catch it. The Bee-Gee’s made a long and fruitful career out of trying to figure out what people wanted to hear. No bones about it, heart on their sleeve they wanted to get their albums played on the radio and to sell records and all that jazz. Very authentically ingratiating about wanting to be popular. That doesn’t make them cool, just makes them people who wrote a handful of songs you know by heart even if you hate them with a burning passion. That’s not nothing. And it doesn’t mean they haven’t also been residents of the uncanny valley since before anyone knew what the uncanny valley was. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When was the last time you listened to “New York Mining Disaster 1941”? That’s a weird song! Dark and sparse, for its time. You can hear Mark E. Smith clearing his throat in the parking lot. From an album described as the Bee-Gee’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Sgt Pepper</span>. The Bee-Gee’s were around long enough to have done a <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Sgt. Pepper. </span>Then they spent some time in the wilderness after their 60s success, and got hungry for a hit. They went from that depressing jangle-folk with sort of a nervy undercurrent to a pretty funky dance band in the space of about eight years. To do that, and not fall on your face takes agility and ability both, I have to acknowledge even if I am lukewarm on many of the results. There’s something almost refreshing about that attitude towards music: <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">oh, yes, we just want to make something people are going to like. Lots of people, not just whoever liked our last thing. What are people listening to now?</span> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To be fair, by 1975 there weren’t many people interested in what the Bee-Gees were doing. They weren’t clicking with anyone, until they went to America and discovered The Meters. But they did, and it worked. Wouldn’t probably have worked for anyone else, but somehow it worked for them. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I found myself returning to another song as well, a weird choice but a melody that got lodged in my brain. This despite it being not very good: “You Win Again.” You probably don’t remember it. Very representative early 90s adult contemporary, in most respects. Gloopy synthesizers up the wazoo.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There’s never been a time for adult contemporary like the 1990s. All the old rock stars from previous decades graduated to generic soft rock pop records that sold like crazy. There were some younger acts in there, too, but it was still squarely aimed for the middle-age demographic. Bowie, for all his many achievements, never had a big adult contemporary hit. Never even strayed a toe in that direction, even though he almost certainly could have made a lot of bank on an album that sounded like everything else on the radio. Occasionally a real gem snuck through, of course, even given those strictures. “Constant Craving” got played on a lot of adult contemporary stations. In terms of production and ubiquity, if not subject matter, it was an exemplar of the form.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I couldn’t tell you what “You Win Again” is about - the boys sound like they’re having a very one-sided conversation. And yet somehow that melody just lopes through your head like a baby elephant. It’s the damnedest thing. Doesn’t look like it did that well in America, but they did still chart a couple more hits in the coming years. On records that sound very contemporary to their times, for better or for worse. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Oh look, the music boys are back.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xviuC-0FwQ0" width="320" youtube-src-id="xviuC-0FwQ0"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-63544238000451183182023-09-12T09:46:00.002-04:002023-09-12T09:46:46.467-04:00What’s in Tegan’s Storage Locker?<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gbxZsh_1TckZF6xYDqMfF4EYtQWIxJZTILjBu6Q5XRBHJEIOzfGlFMxZ0dHLKTJCLeJ8as6Uk5WYbeRcmPwiYSBZ-Qm90xJFKtZdyt5zg0xa6tgwL5cd-7HJ9MzlhhswybaAkWfzmZV_QJW6ScxI0cIlhEUr5EVdNMFADE61OzelQaGuTxXv/s2090/EDD7C9C3-B6CD-4201-99C5-2CD858540879.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tegan’s Storage Locker" border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="2090" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gbxZsh_1TckZF6xYDqMfF4EYtQWIxJZTILjBu6Q5XRBHJEIOzfGlFMxZ0dHLKTJCLeJ8as6Uk5WYbeRcmPwiYSBZ-Qm90xJFKtZdyt5zg0xa6tgwL5cd-7HJ9MzlhhswybaAkWfzmZV_QJW6ScxI0cIlhEUr5EVdNMFADE61OzelQaGuTxXv/w640-h358/EDD7C9C3-B6CD-4201-99C5-2CD858540879.jpeg" width="640" /></a></i></div><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p>The following essay was written earlier this year, ostensibly to commemorate the launch of my TikTok channel, and first saw print serialized over the first five issues of my new weekly newsletter, <a href="https://tinyletter.com/TeganONeil5000" target="_blank">Volume 2 of The Hurting Gazette</a>. The first volume was a digital magazine released through my blog across most of 2018, to an absolute chorus of crickets. The new volume has met with a significantly stronger response out of the gate, thank goodness. Every week sees the release of a raft of new writing from me, and you can have it all, along with links to everything I do, delivered fresh to your mailbox every week. New issue should be going out Wednesday this week, lord willing and the creek don’t rise. </span></i><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>As always, if you like any of my writing, the best way to help is by <a href="https://www.patreon.com/the_hurting_" target="_blank">subscribing to my Patreon</a>. There’s a veritable ton of older material hiding behind the paywall - you’ll find a brief laundry list below. Still, my best and most favorite writing is always whatever I’m working on now.</i> </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Howdy, folks. My name is Tegan O’Neil, and I’ve been writing about comic books in one outlet or another for over twenty years. I’ve written about comics for longer than I’ve done anything else. You might have stumbled across The Hurting at some point - it’s still here, although these days it’s mostly where I put links to stuff. I’ve been published on and off in the pages of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Comics Journal</span> since 2002. I’ve been part of multiple Eisner-winning teams of people writing about comics - in 2017, with the Onion’s AV Club, and again the next year, 2018, with the Journal’s website, <a href="http://TCJ.com">TCJ.com</a>. I have an interview with the author printed in the backmatter of the paperback of Abraham Josephine Riesmen’s biography of Stan Lee. (There’s even an extended version of that chat <a href="https://abrahamriesman.com/interview-abraham-riesman-by-tegan-oneil" target="_blank">you can read right here</a>, that at least a couple of you probably haven’t seen yet.) Most recently, some of you might even know me from TikTok, where I launched the channel <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@teganreadsacomicbook" target="_blank">Tegan Reads A Comic Book</a></span> at the tail end of 2022. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, believe it or not, those videos were in the works for about a year and a half before the channel even started. That’s right, dear readers - and I address here especially those loyal readers among you who have followed me for years, and even decades - a video channel had been on the drawing board for a very long time. The nature of the channel doesn’t really allow for any digressions about process or history, so here’s a more organized summation of thoughts regarding the last few years of my life, leading to the present moment. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So - how did we end up here, together, today? Well, therein lies a tale. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’ve been buying comic books since I was two years old - the first one I remember being an issue of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Batman</span> my parents got me on a long car trip. From that moment on, I remember buying them frequently - or, asking for them to bought, as I was still very young. Now, of course when I was really young they had to compete with stuff like He-Man and the Transformers - but, when I found out they were making Transformers comic books, well. It was all over for me then. I know it’s a similar story for a lot of people my age. I wasn’t allowed to buy <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">GI Joe, </span>on account of it glorifying the military-industrial complex<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span>(though I did watch the cartoon, and caught up with the Marvel series as an adult, which of course turned out to be far more nuanced than my parents could have credited back in the Reagan 80s). But between those two venerable Hasbro franchises I was only one of a legion of kids who found themselves incidentally transformed into Marvel Zombies, due to the infinitely transferable phenomenon of brand loyalty. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Right after that Gladstone began reprinting the work of Floyd Gottfredson, and especially Carl Barks - actual good comics to go alongside the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Transformers</span> and other various toy books which clogged the racks of the newsstands I frequented around Lake Tahoe. Shout out to the 7/11 at Carnelian Bay, right around the corner from my childhood home - I think it’s still there today, was last time I drove through. Of course, they haven’t sold comic books in 7/11 since at least the turn of the century, if not much earlier. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. My story in that respect isn’t unique - if you’re in your forties and still read comics, chances are very good you went through similar rites of passage. We’re the generation that saw Optimus Prime die twice, after all - once, indelibly, on movie screens, and again, rather less indelibly, in the pages of the 24th issue of the Marvel Comics series. You never forget the first time a comic book instills you with blinding rage. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Fast forward a few years to me as an adult. Again, maybe this is a familiar story: I left home, first for college and then, soon thereafter, for parts unknown - but my massive comic book collection was left behind with my parents. And here’s where the story gets interesting. Because, I didn’t see my comic book collection for over two decades, and in fact, I believed it lost for many years. My family had settled in the far reaches of Northern California, and that was where I attended middle school and graduated high school. So far, so good. But. My parents did not stay in the Mount Shasta area. A couple years after I left they moved southwards. That meant they moved my comic books without me, which was in hindsight above and beyond the call of duty for them, considering just how massive the collection had become. Well over a solid decade of allowance and lawn mowing and holiday money, congealed into many multiple cardboard long boxes. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But, they didn’t put the collection in their new house. No. They rented out a storage unit for a number of items that didn’t fit in a house without a garage - skis and old toys and magazines and Christmas decorations - but, most significantly, those boxes of comics. And there they sat, for a very long time. Much longer than I could ever reasonably have expected. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Somewhere along the line we fell behind on payments for the storage unit. Money was tight as often as not for my parents in that period, by then they were long retired and lived on a fixed income. I helped them when I could, but I was in college myself for much of it, having returned to get my degree much later. At some point the responsibility of paying for the unit passed to me. I was at that point living all the way across the country, in Massachusetts for almost ten years. Money was tight there, as well. Somehow or other, between my parents and myself, the ball was fumbled and the payments stopped. My life was fraught and busy, I think by then I had returned to school. I had various relationships and bad jobs, and even though I was still regularly reading comics, I wasn’t buying very many of them. Thankfully, one of the advantages of being a critic is that I had access to comics to read even in thin times, people just sent them to me, or more often now, give me links. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But - what I didn’t have was money to pay for the storage unit. So - they were gone. For years. Out of sight, out of mind.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then, of course, many years later, after I had been through this and come out the other side, I received a letter from the storage place asking me if I was ever going to pay any of the back rent on the damn locker. You can just imagine my surprise, not unmixed with a slight degree of consternation at having to pay many thousands of dollars of back rent. But: I had said goodbye to those comic books in good faith, believing they were lost to time. And then, turned out they weren’t so lost after all. They came back to me and that felt significant. I wasn’t going to lose them again, even as it would still be many years before we were actually reunited. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, even though I still didn’t have a lot of money, I somehow managed to pay down that debt, and have remained in more or less good stead with the storage place ever since. The funny part here, however, is that the comics still had adventures without me. I received a letter from the storage place somewhere along the line that they had backed one of their own trucks into the unit my parents had initially rented, so they had to move all our stuff themselves, into another unit. So, ultimately both my parents and the people who own the storage place had to move my massive comic book collection. I have never actually had to move it myself, which seems a neat trick.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As for me - well. After six years of grad school I was completely burnt out, burnt out and exhausted. It’s a sequence of events I’ve discussed at length elsewhere so I won’t belabor the point here. It just so happened that this also coincided with a downturn in the health for both of my parents. So, I went from teaching college to taking care of them, pretty much full-time. Another aspect of this period is that I went from being intensely involved with comics - reading most of everything released in the American mainstream and much beyond, week after week for many years, as was more or less my job while I was working for the AV Club - to reading almost nothing at all. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Reading comics that way - reading so <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">many</span> comics that way, week after week for years, not out of joy or desire but out of obligation, because it was my job - well, it made me resent comics. Reading them almost exclusively on a computer screen for years at a time made me hate the medium. One of the better aspects of living on a farm in the middle of nowhere with my parents for a few years was choosing only to read what my editor sent me - which ended up sometimes being only two or three comics a month, total. During that period I came to call my reading habits “slow comics” - a joke, basically, which I nevertheless came to appreciate, because it was during this time that I set about in earnest to reengage with the medium to which I had ostensibly dedicated most of my life. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I wrote a column for the Journal’s website, from 2018 to the middle of 2019, called <a href="https://www.tcj.com/topic/ice-cream-for-bedwetters/" target="_blank">“Ice Cream for Bedwetters,”</a> which, again, I will say I believed in the moment to be a great name for a column. It was a memorable laugh line in 2017’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Logan</span> movie that actually did tie-in with the themes I wanted to discuss during that very personal run of essays - learning to read comics again, basically. Getting in touch with what I enjoyed about the medium, looking past those years as a professional critic, decades of becoming cynical and jaundiced about every aspect of the hobby. I think over the course of those essays I really did begin to rekindle my joy and affection for the medium - I’m proud of those pieces, and of the book they form. Enough that I still hope to see it printed up one of these days, even if I end up doing it myself. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was also during the early days of this period that the four of us won the Eisner for the AV Club - Oliver Sava, our editor, along with Caitlin Rosberg, Shea Hennum, and myself. Talented folks who I am proud to consider my friends. Considering the subsequent half decade I had, that award and those associations gave me a great deal of comfort during a period when things weren’t going so great. As much as I was enjoying the gradual process of reengaging with comics, the context for my life was that my father had received a very bad diagnosis - we we were initially told Parkinson’s although more recent developments led to a more likely diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. And that was my reality for the next three years of my life, taking care of both of my parents during my dad’s slow but sure decline. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, this is a massively depressing part of the story, no way around it. Long time readers might remember long periods of silence interspersed by bursts of productively from roughly 2019 through the next three years. I didn’t write much of anything through most of 2020. After that singularly enervating year - enervating for a number of reasons, some of which you all experienced alongside me, in addition to my own private struggles - I rallied in 2021. That year saw the advent of the so-called Summer of Tegan, during which I overcame grisly personal circumstances to produce around 80,000 words of comic book criticism in the space of about six months. A little longer than a summer, as a matter of fact, but this is comics and you should never let the facts get in the way of a good cover blurb. I started another book during that period - I mean, I’ve written a lot of books in the last few years, but specifically on the subject of comics, I started <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/search/label/oh%20what%20a%20rogue" target="_blank">a book about Rogue</a> that was intended as a kind of reading guide for the character and much of the last forty years of X-Men comics in general. That book is still unfinished - the first quarter or so is done, but hopefully, if you’re one of the folks waiting for me to pick up that baton again, the delay makes a little bit more sense now. Soon! I promise. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, eventually all these threads converged towards the second half of 2021, with me straining mightily to maintain my momentum across an exhausting period where, in addition to writing that aforementioned 80,000 words of criticism, I was also providing round the clock care for my dad and my mom both. She wasn’t sick, yet, just run down. As was I. The writing I produced that year was for my own sense of pride as much as anything else, but all that work did the job and pushed me back into being fully invested again. The problem was, once I finished, I didn’t really know where to go from there. I wrapped up with <a href="https://www.tcj.com/reviews/crisis-zone/" target="_blank">an epic review of Simon Hanselmann’s </a><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.tcj.com/reviews/crisis-zone/" target="_blank">Crisis Zone,</a> </span>the completion of which actually spanned a period of time in which I was hospitalized for what I later discovered was a hernia. So - I didn’t have it in me to continue at the fever pitch, or really any pitch at all. Paradoxically, even though I was back in the game, I was still spent. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So I yielded to the flow of events, took my mother’s lead, and started watching a lot of YouTube. She moved over to YouTube for her primary TV when she figured out she could get better news and science and history programming than anything on the regular cable. Which, frankly, surprised me - I was never a big YouTube watcher, because I had assumed it was all just right wing propaganda and people yelling about video games. Well, there is a lot of both of those things, but to my surprise, they also had international news, and lectures from the world’s premiere universities - and yes, even comic book content. So, being mostly exhausted from running around like a chicken with my head cut off, I sat back and learned quite a bit. It was here that I finally found the missing piece that I’d been looking for - after the extended burnout it took years of hard dedicated work to rekindle my affection for comics, my desire to read them, my desire to write about them - but it wasn’t until I saw other people talking about them, showing them off, actually touching physical copies of the books instead of just leafing through digital files on a tablet - that I finally wanted to go back to the store myself. So, at the tail end of 2021, I did just that.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And, as I said earlier, the idea of a “pivot to video” had been percolating for a while before that. In the later half of ‘21 and the early months of ‘22, I devoted myself to learning the ins and outs of video production on my phone. I didn’t have the wherewithal to write much of anything at that period, and I certainly didn’t have the stability to begin broadcasting, but I did have well over an hour every day during which I walked the dog and was able to read about video on my phone. That’s when I learned how to use iMovies to edit footage, however rudimentary my skills. Doing a long circuit every day around the same farm made for a pretty predictable walk, so there was plenty of time for research. I produced at least a couple dozen sample videos, in my room - learning how to light, and how to mic, and how to talk on video - all of which took some time. I shared the results with only a couple people, but they can attest, there were full-length videos extant well over two years ago. Imagine my frustration to be ready to go, and yet unable to really start because - again, my days and my nights when I wasn’t reading comics and figuring out how to take videos were still devoted to caring for a man who didn’t always recognize me anymore. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Hurting began in the Winter of 2004 - the website celebrated it’s nineteenth birthday earlier this year, such as it is, but it’s basically my brand now. I’ve felt guilty for years that I haven’t been in a place to be able to resume daily blogging. I miss it. I miss having an outlet to talk about comic books that isn’t Twitter. That service has its definitely pluses, but as we’ve seen the past year it’s also become a much less stable place, especially for anyone trying to make their living through online promotion. Producing videos enabled me to return to doing what I enjoy most in this world - yakking about old comics for the entertainment of whoever feels like showing up and joining the fun. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because, I’m not just a comic book critic - I’ve worn many hats in my life. I was on the radio for half a decade in my twenties. I taught college for six years. Now, videos about old comic books aren’t quite criticism, and making TikTok videos isn’t quite broadcasting, and talking about comic book history and art theory on that forum isn’t precisely teaching - but they have elements of all those things. Seems a natural progression, from that perspective. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">With that said, producing videos - producing any kind of videos - entails a hell of a lot more work than “just” writing essays and posting them to my blog. The worst part of blogging for me was always dealing with pictures - all of which had to be tracked down and uploaded individually, a process which was never not a hassle and which grew progressively more taxing the more I wanted to talk about art. Videos are the perfect answer to that problem: if I want to talk about art in a video I can simply point at it with my finger. Now, of course, there’s a lot more that isn’t easier about the format. Which is why, hopefully, the videos lead to more remunerative feedback from a larger audience. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because yes, as much as I enjoy doing them, I’m also not investing all this time and effort merely out of the goodness of my heart. I have a Patreon, and as much as I appreciate every single person who has supported me over the last six years that I’ve had it, it’s nevertheless a small group I’d like to see grow. To that end I had goals for the channel - modest goals, I promise, but goals nonetheless, benchmarks I wanted to reach in order to make this considerable effort pay off. In terms of viewership on TikTok, I long since passed my initial benchmarks to continue with the process. I’d like to see steady growth for the Patreon, which hasn’t materialized even as the channel grows apace. Quite frustrating, in all honesty, to work harder than I had in at least a decade and be still unable to move that needle. I live a quiet life and my needs are few, and I’d like to grow the percentage of my income that comes directly from comic books. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because, if we’re being frank, we all know there’s not a lot of money in writing about comic books online. There’s not really <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">any</span> money in doing it anywhere for any venue. As much as I am genuinely thankful for every venue that does pay, we all know it’s just not enough to provide more than a little bit of mad money. And I say that knowing full well I’ve probably passed up opportunities for better gigs and slightly better pay - but “slightly better” is relative in this industry, and in any event those gigs don’t exist anymore. Imagine my surprise to come online and find people talking about comics and making money doing so. Again, not as much as anyone would like, but more money than can be made sitting in front of the keyboard and diligently tapping on the keys. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, I’ve been talking about comics, professionally, since 2002. I’ve been dong it online since 2004. That makes me incredibly old in internet years, I fully recognize. But I have adapted to the times. I started a TikTok for that very reason - it’s not a medium I felt myself naturally drawn to, but if there’s one theme I’ve picked up from the various writing communities on which I eavesdrop, it’s that any presence on TikTok, even half-hearted, reaps enormous dividends in terms of getting your name and your material in front of new people. I started doing daily reviews of new comics on my Twitter, and realized there was a market for just that thing. Sure enough, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@teganreadsacomicbook" target="_blank">“Tegan Reads A Comic Book”</a> has met a warm reception and continues to grow.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, I’m not just a critic. I’ve been trying to make a go of it as a writer, full-stop, for a good long while. I went through life changes around 2016 that led me to reevaluate what I wanted to be, what I wanted to do with my life. What I really wanted, more than anything, what I always wanted, was just to be a writer. I spent the better part of a decade trying - most of my twenties - before returning to academia with my tail between my legs. (<a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2014/01/ten-years-of-terror.html" target="_blank">I’ve written about that demoralizing process before.</a>) But that basically meant ignoring what I really wanted, and that’s about the least healthy thing for a body you can imagine. Frankly, it can be deadly. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, I’ve written quite a bit in my life, and especially these last few years. If you already know this stuff you can skip ahead, true believers - but for the sake for those new to the party: In the first place, I’ve spent the last few years compiling some of my older writing, into volumes available as inducement for joining my Patreon and supporting my ongoing efforts. There’s still and always an introductory anthology of my criticism available for free download on my Patreon - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/putative-hurting-67266373" target="_blank">it’s called </a><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/putative-hurting-67266373" target="_blank">The Putative Hurting</a>. </span>All killer, no filler, just the hits from across twenty years. It’s a smaller version of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Portable Hurting, </span>a more exhaustive look at my back pages, which also has more original material in the form of extended annotations and biographical notes. These in turn compliment a couple older anthologies - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Hurting Sampler </span>and<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> The Hurting Reliquary - also </span>still available on the Patreon. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Over the last few years I also wrote a few books of autobiographical criticism - I already mentioned the “Ice Cream for Bedwetters” column, the collected edition of which will be called <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Salting the Wounds</span> and is actually the third volume in a series beginning with <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always The Best Day Of My Life</span>, and continuing through to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Zeroes</span>. (Those projects can be read via the links on the left side of the blog.) In a perfect world they’d sit snug next to one another in a fat slipcase, but in lieu of that you can envision the slipcase in your mind-palace. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The latter is ostensibly built around <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Star Wars</span> - but if you’d like a more focused collection of my Star Wars writing, without so much in the way of biographical or philosophical interludes, I can recommend <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Republic is Crumbling</span>, an anthology of the best of my writing on the subject<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">. </span>Now, before you ask the next obvious question, I’m currently completely estranged from that franchise, which was a pretty big focus of mine for much of my life. Let’s just say that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rise of Skywalker</span> left a bad taste in my mouth and I haven’t seen anything produced since I saw that film in the theaters. Not a damn thing. I know I’ll go back, because those movies are in my blood as much as anything in comics, but I’m still not over <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">that</span> movie. I’m planning to remain mad about it probably for a considerable amount of time yet. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There’s also a small book about <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">They Might Be Giants</span> on there - I actually wrote about music for years on another website, but hadn’t in a long time. Now, I am happy to report that this drought, at least, is over: I’m writing about music again, in the form of new installments of an old essay series from the blog, <a href="https://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/search/label/everybody%27s%20rocking" target="_blank">Everybody’s Rockin,’</a> presented in the pages of <a href="https://tinyletter.com/TeganONeil5000" target="_blank">my new weekly newsletter,</a> technically speaking Volume 2 of another old series, The Hurting Gazette. I’m going to be posting those new essays in this space, beginning next week. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, as much as I enjoy criticism, and would love to have those books published eventually, I know full well they’re still niche items. I’m not going to make my fame in publishing with anthologies of old blog posts. To that effect, in 2018 I buckled down and started work on something that was at least in theory designed to be more readily commercial: I started writing fantasy, and began a series of books called <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Array</span>. The first six and a half of which are done, and also available behind the paywall of the Patreon. I put a lot of thought into how to write something that would sell, so of course I’ve been trying to sell them for over five years and not had a jot of success. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It is the greatest ongoing frustration of my life that I have yet to find a receptive audience for a series of books that was designed to be as ingratiating and commercial as possible. It’d be one thing if they were purposefully obscurantist by design. But no, they’re my best good-faith attempt at accessibility. And I can’t pay people to read them. I’m still working at it - every week, pretty much without fail, for years (with a few gaps during the lowest periods of taking care of my parents when I wasn’t doing any writing work), I have sent out two or three or four queries, all of which have been rejected. But I’m still at it. Just got another rejection this morning (as of this writing), but I’m still at it. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because, ultimately, I have made many of the decisions in my life on the principle that the easiest way to break into comics is as a prose writer. The problem is, I got stuck at the part that entails breaking in as a prose writer. That was what I spent most of my twenties doing - and to be fair, I wasn’t a very good writer in my twenties. I wrote three or four books of bad cod realism, the kind of books an angry young person writes when they haven’t been to enough therapy. Given that it’s frankly a blessing I didn’t break in when I was 27. If I had had any success on the back of those immature, malformed books, I would almost certainly not still be any kind of writer today. In the fullness of hard-won experience I can say it was a blessing to fail when and how I did.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But, that failure nevertheless left scars, which is why I didn’t write any fiction for ten years. And also why, when I did return to fiction, I had less than any interest in writing realism or naturalism or quote-unquote “literary” fiction - I spent my time in grad school studying primarily early twentieth century transatlantic modernism, and if there’s one thing I can say about that mode of fiction it’s that it doesn’t have much of a constituency in the early twenty-first century.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Ultimately my ongoing failure to sell my writing remains the spur that pushes me forward. If I had already met with success, I almost certainly would never have started a TikTok in the attempt to spread my name that way. I remain profoundly unsatisfied with my career, but that dissatisfaction is nevertheless what gets me out of bed in the morning. I see myself as a failure in absolute terms, but I’m not out of the game until I’m dead. Hope springs eternal. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway, you might be thinking - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">for someone whose ostensible long-term goal since the turn of the century has been to work in comics, you sure haven’t done a lot to make that goal a reality. Really only have yourself to blame there, hoss.</span> To which I can only say, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">I know</span>. I’ve lived a strange life relative to most people, and at multiple junctures I’ve made bad decisions based on faulty incentives and poor long term planning. I recognize that. But there’s nothing else really for it.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I still really want to write for the comics. Perhaps that a shameful admission for anyone who’s been at it as long as I have, whose seen as much as I have, who knows how the sausage is made about as well as anyone who hasn’t actually been in the factory. All that did nothing to dissuade me. I’m writing scripts now, teaching myself how to do it if nothing else - so far I’ve got five issues of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Journey of Jacqueline Thousand</span> in the can, no artist, no publisher, not even a nibble of interest. But they’re there, and <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/journey-of-1-4-84070197" target="_blank">the first four issues are even free to read, right here,</a> for anyone who wants to check it out. I’m not just flapping my wings to no effect, I’m trying my damndest to create movement through initiative.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7E6WMA8iDPIf4iWXY8n4gvF5ctAt9mkPJ6S8UGVb2zJZ7_Tsz9WXNPK0xu7K5VKZmd6V72GUKKp0dQkr_XCMKixYVj8y_yzr-LqH0M5maayu9-rRV7B1-u5xoxOFIV3xnONfw0X2hBbsFgYGDm8zjVEcWQniKIcYv41nksHhNSF0NRNSgvxAC/s4032/85FE96E0-F691-4A47-A2A6-3A9A6CF1EDD5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The first filming rig" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7E6WMA8iDPIf4iWXY8n4gvF5ctAt9mkPJ6S8UGVb2zJZ7_Tsz9WXNPK0xu7K5VKZmd6V72GUKKp0dQkr_XCMKixYVj8y_yzr-LqH0M5maayu9-rRV7B1-u5xoxOFIV3xnONfw0X2hBbsFgYGDm8zjVEcWQniKIcYv41nksHhNSF0NRNSgvxAC/w640-h480/85FE96E0-F691-4A47-A2A6-3A9A6CF1EDD5.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In a perfect world the channel would have launched sometime in the middle of 2022, but that wasn’t in the cards. What happened instead is that my parents were forced to leave their home of seventeen years - I mentioned before that we lived on a farm, well, the farm changed hands and they didn’t need tenants in their farmhouse anymore. Now, we managed to stave that off for a good while, owing mostly to my dad’s health. We finally found a placement for him towards the end of the year. But it wasn’t any kind of clean win. If I wrote it in a book it would be pilloried for being a hackneyed development - but here we are. Partway through the year, when my mom and I were deep in the hunt for a new place too live, she started to cough. She was having trouble breathing. Eventually she went to the hospital.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All these years we had trudged forward for my dad’s benefit, consoling ourselves with the certainty that things would be better, that we would have time to relax once we managed to find a place for him to be taken care of. Catch up on our <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span>. Because we weren’t up to it. We exhausted ourselves because there were no other options for him, and no other options for us. We provided him round the clock care long past the point when we had the ability to give him a good quality of life, and long after it had seriously affected our own quality of life, and our own health. It took a long time - the better part of a year after we made that fateful call - for them to find a placement. But by then my mom had been to the hospital. Received a chest X-ray and a rather definitive diagnosis. Lifelong smoker, on and off, nothing to be done. And from that point it was a quick slide down a steep hill - she received her diagnosis at the end of August and by the end of December she was gone. She died two days short of our final day at the old house, when I was in the middle of the most crucial time of the move, prior to being homeless by the first of the year.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">She was given a longer prognosis than she eventually lasted. It’s the damnedest thing - she just disappeared one day, from right in front of my eyes. Once day she was there, and the next she wasn’t. Our last time together we spent watching some <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek,</span> pretty much our favorite thing to do as a family since as far back as I remember. She read a couple comic books - looked over the Gil Kane <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Jungle Book, </span>delighted to see such a resolutely loyal adaptation.<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span>Leafed through Sienkiewicz’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Shadow</span>. Really enjoyed an issue of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Gunslinger Spawn </span>I picked up on a whim. We watched a lot of Comic Tropes, she thought he was quite amusing. I know I should have spent more of the last month before the move packing, so I wasn’t so rushed - but I also knew there just wasn’t going to be as much time as we’d hoped.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have in the past, bragged in a very self-deprecating manner, that moving is something I’m very good at. And I am, objectively speaking: I’ve moved so many times and in so many different circumstances that I really don’t get that upset at the prospect. I get focused, I get it done. It’s a system all its own. I suppose that was probably hubris, because this was the most difficult move of my life, and I once loaded a full size hot tub onto the back of a trailer with my ex-wife. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Just</span> my ex-wife, mind - honestly, thinking back on it now, I’m still impressed we were able to do that. But having your mom die during a move is, well, it’s rather an overwhelming experience, I’m going to be completely honest. In truth, I think having two such traumatic and exhausting events right on top of each other, after only having found placement for my dad in a facility for Alzheimer’s patients a handful of weeks earlier, somehow instilled a disassociated equilibrium across the actual events. There was too much going on for me to react to any of it. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, because the rental market is fucked literally everywhere I spent the first month of 2023 living in a Motel 6 while my aunt and I tracked down housing. With a few more animals than strictly allowed by the by-laws of the Motel 6 company. Although, I should also add, I lost two pets during that month as well, the dog so old she was unable to walk anymore without my holding up her back legs, and my own beloved 16-years-old cat succumbing to a stroke. In hindsight, it seems almost comical just how much tragedy was packed into such a small period of time. But it was also during that brief nightmarish season in hell that I finished the most recent volume of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Array, </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT">entitled</span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> Hell-World</span> - fittingly, a horror story, all the misery and recrimination and fear of that miserable time, and a lifetime on top of it, wrapped up in a harrowing narrative. Took me three years to write the first 1/4 of that book, three weeks to write the final 3/4. A capstone to the worst days of my life. Purgative. Hopefully also scary! </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But that’s all done now. I’m living in a new apartment with my mother’s cats, mourning yes, but hopefully also living as bit. My mother saw early drafts of the channel, videos recorded in my room in the house on the almond farm. She liked what she saw. She thought it was a good idea, a good next step for my career. She liked listening to me talk about comic books, just as much in my early forties as when I was eight and bringing home paper sacks full of Marvel from the 7/11. Hopefully you like listening to me talk about comic books, too, because that’s what we’re going to be doing, hopefully for the foreseeable future. I even started <a href="https://www.patreon.com/UdderMadness" target="_blank">a podcast, with my very good friend Claire Napier</a>. On the subject of Top Cow, of all things. She just happened to be at my side, figuratively speaking, as I absorbed some of the hardest blows of my life, during those last hellish months on the almond farm. It’s nice to be able to build something new, for a change, and with a friend. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Thanks for listening. Today and for as long as you’ll have me, I’ll be here. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">PS - For those who stuck with it this long, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@whenwillthehurtingstop/" target="_blank">have a surprise</a>. </p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsFbpit5uodBD0RmVsvTGHQZ-k2ZR8f5NJARmh3fPDtFJpNds874EzaP5NVvsEItIBDSHRcGzfx1JjhKkhMvh_n9ozns1eeuYG6Ci-yilu0UKfH1WfvuyM0Ob294hnxyOQVh20Tni3uYoFt80QzSmos3YbeXzUFXBonjhbNH_-AS2VzXjpTXc/s4032/711582F4-20F4-43DE-8B46-EF58330573CE.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sunrise on the almond farm" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsFbpit5uodBD0RmVsvTGHQZ-k2ZR8f5NJARmh3fPDtFJpNds874EzaP5NVvsEItIBDSHRcGzfx1JjhKkhMvh_n9ozns1eeuYG6Ci-yilu0UKfH1WfvuyM0Ob294hnxyOQVh20Tni3uYoFt80QzSmos3YbeXzUFXBonjhbNH_-AS2VzXjpTXc/w640-h480/711582F4-20F4-43DE-8B46-EF58330573CE.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-49016892786294404822022-06-03T11:26:00.002-04:002022-06-03T11:43:48.089-04:00Announcing . . .<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWbJuALaZGQZQZ9yZmYguiQI_MPT39TFL-hlVBGRg2w8TpFKKoLrsUZ54EcgYa9X2nmCbXOvwrT33rKGCENRaFkVgIiXJjQQx0xLDN1bEx7MYDxSphAYPHpzbctanovvvzJdUloB-lF-EKLC-Hr9ZLa_fkv2Q_dJoKHs3RV3D4Pyny0fpJiA/s1720/3E83A0EA-E247-45B2-A583-95C52A5E4221.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Putative Hurting" border="0" data-original-height="1720" data-original-width="1338" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWbJuALaZGQZQZ9yZmYguiQI_MPT39TFL-hlVBGRg2w8TpFKKoLrsUZ54EcgYa9X2nmCbXOvwrT33rKGCENRaFkVgIiXJjQQx0xLDN1bEx7MYDxSphAYPHpzbctanovvvzJdUloB-lF-EKLC-Hr9ZLa_fkv2Q_dJoKHs3RV3D4Pyny0fpJiA/w498-h640/3E83A0EA-E247-45B2-A583-95C52A5E4221.jpeg" width="498" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Today I am pleased to announce the release of a new anthology of my work - </i>The Putative Hurting -<i> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/67266373" target="_blank">available now and for the foreseeable future from my Patreon</a>. Check out the Introduction below:</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Howdy! If you’re new to the party, thanks for reading. I’ll try to keep the preamble succinct.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The present volume was conceived as a kind of satellite to a larger anthology, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Portable Hurting, </span>designed to celebrate twenty years of work as a comic book critic. As enjoyable as it was to assemble, the finished manuscript became too big to fulfill its initial purpose, twice over. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Portable</span> was initially intended to be a new giveaway for my Patreon, to replace the warhorse <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Hurting Sampler</span> that had served that function for almost four years. The latter collection had begun to show its age as a representative collection of my work (tho’ it yet lives, behind the paywall, for anyone who wants the exclusive stuff therein). In any event as <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Portable</span> became much larger in practice than conception, the addition of 20,000 words of new Introductions added up to frankly more material than I felt comfortable producing for a giveaway. </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The compromise upon which I landed was that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Portable Hurting, </span>conceived as a self-indulgent career retrospective, was offered free for a time on my blog. A gift from me to my audience as a token of twenty years’ esteem. The existence of this volume means however that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Portable</span> has now retreated to its forever home behind the paywall, replaced by this: a slimmer giveaway but hopefully more effective promotional tool. If you already have <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Portable Hurting </span>- or if you’ve been following my writing for any time - there’s nothing new here, save for the addition of last year’s “As If By Chisel.” The essay on Barry Windsor-Smith’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Monsters</span> wasn’t in the previous volume simply by virtue of having been too recent a publication, then not even six months old on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Comics Journal </span>website. </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But if you are new to the party, or in need of a refresher, this has what you need. All killer, no filler: “There Are Two Silver Surfers,” “Jerk City, USA,” “What We Talk About When We Talk About <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Kingdom Come.</span>” Eddie Campbell and Chris Ware. Steve Gerber and Dwayne McDuffie. Stan “The Man” Lee and Brian “Motherfucking” Bendis. All the old circus animals, those stilted boys.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The purpose of this collection is not, however, for me to reminisce, but to get out of the way. If you want to know more about anything herein the resources are available one or two pages further. But if you downloaded this randomly off the internet because you saw something I wrote and were curious to learn more - well, I’d say you should browse at your pleasure, but if you’d like a push I think the aforementioned “There Are Two Silver Surfers” is probably as good a place to start as any. I’m also partial to “True Believers,” myself, and my most loyal readers really like “Jerk City, USA.” </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Please, enjoy, and thank you for reading! If the last twenty years of writing have taught me anything - I’m nothing without my readers. I appreciate everyone who joins that number. </p>
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Would you believe it’s been twenty years this Spring since my first appearance in the pages of </i>The Comics Journal? <i>And eighteen years this last January since the debut of</i> The Hurting?<i> Time flies! To that point, this was supposed to be wrapped by the middle of January. Sadly this is not January! That is a testament both to how jammed my days have been and how much unexpected work has gone into the volume below. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Today I am proud to announce the release of </i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/portable-hurting-64073373?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare" target="_blank">The Portable Hurting,</a> <i>a (near) comprehensive accounting of my career in comics writing to date, featuring highlights from last two decades. It comes with over twenty thousand words of new material, in the form of two new Introductions. The first Introduction is the story of my career to date, from my first published piece in 2002 right up to the present moment. It also serves as a (belated) anniversary post for this website, and you can read it below if you scroll down. The second Introduction consists of longform annotations to my actual career, as represented herein. That’s where you’ll find my worst takes, selected passages of (obscure, jaundiced) industry history, and whatever lukewarm tea I can manage to brew at this late date. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Portable Hurting</span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> is available through </span><a href="https://www.patreon.com/the_hurting_" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">my Patreon,</a><span style="font-size: medium;"> and for the moment it’s free. Yes. As in, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/portable-hurting-64073373?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare" target="_blank">you can download it right here and right now</a>. Will it remain free forever? Almost certainly not! Frankly I ended up putting more work into the compilation than I expected, so I can’t imagine I won’t be replacing it as a giveaway with something a bit more slimmed-down. At s</span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;">ome point medium-soonish</span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> this volume will be placed behind the paywall. Incentive for you to download now, yes? For the moment, though, consider it an anniversary present.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0VDavejAQCxoboN5b43_OV7p5_kOlMJx0vNqd6VPBXbNKKdMxUCNOuLWKnT1Y4zS-AbaLGfSzATPyN4Dn9Wn2OWs6b_R17M73on8QQhy8nUm70rC3dWSPYmaDb-qPA_RdYVxgCNEuolZLgckbGfGTtRVIOddZOq6p5n5Lrgh7P722HHuvjw=s1895" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Endorsements!" border="0" data-original-height="1895" data-original-width="1620" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0VDavejAQCxoboN5b43_OV7p5_kOlMJx0vNqd6VPBXbNKKdMxUCNOuLWKnT1Y4zS-AbaLGfSzATPyN4Dn9Wn2OWs6b_R17M73on8QQhy8nUm70rC3dWSPYmaDb-qPA_RdYVxgCNEuolZLgckbGfGTtRVIOddZOq6p5n5Lrgh7P722HHuvjw=w548-h640" width="548" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You hold in your virtual hands twenty years of my life.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Twenty years of the work. Hopefully not the end of it, but for the moment - a summing up of what has come before. An outline, a stab towards tidying up a very unwieldy corpus. A foundation stone on which to build whatever follows. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The hardest thing about being a writer with any kind of longevity, even in a small field such as comics writing, is figuring out how to keep your name in front of new peoples’ eyes. This volume is intended to serve as an introduction to what is in terms of organization across a handful of websites over multiple decades a giant plate of spaghetti strewn across the wall. Not precisely welcoming should any interested unwary reader stumble across my online haunts! Organizing the back catalog has been a significant chore, which should hopefully serve as a personal lesson to myself, going forward. It almost certainly will not.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Twenty years ago my first professional review ran in issue #242 of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Comics Journal,</span> dated April 2002. I was living in Oklahoma with my wife (now ex). It wasn’t the first piece I wrote with the intention of sending the magazine but I believe it was the first I actually did. Funny thing, the review had already been spiked! The editor at that time, a woman named Anne Elizabeth Moore, politely rejected my review of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Wendell All Together. Wendell</span> was a comic strip that ran in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Advocate</span> during the 1980s, drawn by a man named Howard Cruse who I would later meet in passing at a meeting of western Massachusetts comics people. One of my very few opportunities to mingle with other comics people in any capacity. I believe I also said something rude to Denis Kitchen.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In hindsight it sticks out that my first ambition in the direction of writing about comics came not from the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> but from my love of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Jack Kirby Collector</span>. My first issue was #9, which I found soon after release in early ‘96. From then through the turn of the century that was my favorite magazine. Every issue was an <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">event.</span> I lost track when it switched to a treasury format - the articles seemed thinner, shipping got erratic, and they jacked the price. After buying everything they had published to then I parted ways with TwoMorrows when they started to put out more magazines, stuff like <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Comic Book Artist</span> and<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> Alter Ego.</span> Both of which were good and also filled with stuff I wanted, but neither of which I ever found the time to actually read. So I stopped buying altogether. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I started buying the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> in ‘99 - my first issue was #210, which I purchased at the Tower Records in Berkeley, CA, no longer extant by a long stretch. As I believe I’ve written before, that one issue was perhaps <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">the</span> crucial catalyst for my development as a writer. Now here, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">finally,</span> thought I, was real writing - and it only took me, what, a decade to outgrow that aesthetic? It’s a comfortable house style. There’s a reason I responded to it, also a reason I needed to let it go. I wonder if Gary Groth - to say nothing of Tom Spurgeon! - ever found it bizarre to see their own voices reflected back in so many other writers, second or third or fourth hand photocopies. Still never had a single exchange with the magazine’s founder, by the by. (“Avoid the boss” isn’t just a good idea it’s a way of life.) </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As mentioned, Moore originally rejected my review of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Wendell</span>. I thought the piece was pretty good but there was nothing to be done. Time to slink away to lick my wounds. Already by then (late 2001?) I had become accustomed to the iron law of the rejection letter through the process of sending out short fiction to such magazines as still bought it, to say nothing of spec plots sent to Big Two editors throughout my teenage years. (None of that fiction was printed, for which I am grateful. However, I have <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">still</span> never sold a single piece of fiction, a situation about which I am significantly less sanguine.) Imagine my surprise when <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Comics Journal </span>issue #242 arrived in the mail - I didn’t subscribe so it wasn’t expected. Turns out the circumstances of that publication may have been incidental to another drama (one to which I was not privy and so cannot speculate), involving the turnover between editorial regimes of the aforementioned Moore and her successor, Milo George. I believe #242 was either her last or his first issue on the masthead. (I don’t actually have a hard copy in front of me to check, it’s in a storage locker two hours away.) The cover feature that issue was a fifteen page conversation between Noel Sickles and Gil Kane but the meat of the magazine was thirty pages of reviews, and as such I have always assumed my piece just happened to be in the right place at the right time to fill a page in a transitional issue. Emptying the drawer in anticipation of a new regime. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But it did not matter because my foot was in the door! From that point on I was a frequent presence in Milo’s inbox. From what I recall I sent him lists of whatever I had got my hands on that might be interesting and he told me what he wanted. While he wasn’t a particularly hands-on editor with revisions or edits - at least not with me - I learned a great deal from him, probably more than any other editor. That education came in the form of of my finished pieces, when they appeared. Milo made something readable out of whatever I sent him so I studied what he cut and fixed and stopped doing those things. You don’t want to get called out for the same error twice. Not if you want to get better and keep getting hired. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. That’s how I became a steady presence in the magazine for much of the last sixty issues of its original run. The “Cousin Oliver” of the classic <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span>, if you will. This was still before I had ever heard of a “blog,” mind you. My first online influences were Jon Morris’ website Gone & Forgotten and Abhay Khosla’s Title Bout column, the latter of which ran on the late, lamented Movie Poop Shoot dot com. (Yes, that was the name of the site. I believe the person to whom you need to complain is Kevin Smith.) It, and Chris Ryall specifically, ran my first piece of online writing, an obituary of Warren Zevon that proved <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">very</span> popular. Enough so that I continued to receive letters on the subject of Zevon for a good decade after. Ended up getting a whole pile of Zevon bootlegs from a fan mailing list as a result of that association. Ryall published a few pieces of mine, despite himself. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tho’ Movie Poop Shoot is no more, that early piece is included in the ‘Rarities’ section of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Hurting Reliquary,</span> available behind the paywall on the Patreon. Ryall did pretty well for himself, from what I understand. Morris and Khosla are both still around and they’re both still funnier than me. I’ve interviewed both men over the last decade, I think the only interviews I’ve done in that time. Together they set an early high bar for <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">goofing on</span> writing about comic books on the pre-blogosphere internet. Gone & Forgotten is still around and still updating. In recent years Morris has written three excellent and highly recommended books on the subject matter of goofy comic book characters, with one volume each for <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Regrettable Superheroes, Sidekicks, </span>and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Supervillains</span>. Abhay is also still around, also still funnier than me. If you’ve never read his Dracula you really should, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">it’s only probably the best vampire comic book ever made.</span> He is a fearless writer, sometimes to a fault. He is also a lawyer which means he can smell <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">your</span> fear. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Due to a long and weird chain of events leading into the fall of 2003 my then-wife and our four dogs wound up living in central Massachusetts during one of the coldest winters of recent memory. It was a bitter and stressful time, and The Hurting was a product of that time. The name is taken from a 90s cartoon named <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Eek! the Cat.</span> It ran on Fox Saturday mornings before <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men.</span> I’ve never seen it in repeats so if you weren’t around then you’ve most likely never seen it. The show was co-created by “Savage” Steve Holland, who also directed 80s comedy staples <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">One Crazy Summer</span> and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Better Off Dead, </span>neither of which I saw until decades after loving <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Eek! </span>Reportedly he left the movie industry because John Cusack was a giant dick, which is how he ended up making such endearingly weird Saturday morning cartoons. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway, the reason why <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Eek!</span> stood out to me at the time and in memory was the show’s permeating mood of general sadism. The main character is a hapless purple cat who somehow manages to keep his cheery attitude despite an endless run of bad luck. The catchphrase in question however actually appeared in the backup feature, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Terrible Thunderlizards,</span> about a group of dinosaur commandos on a mission to kill the first two human beings. (A few small liberties may have been taken with the paleontological record.) One of those cavemen, the choleric Bill, was even more unlucky than Eek. His constant moaning refrain, every time he was sat upon or blown up or thrown off a cliff: <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“When does the hurting stop?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am certain I spent no more time thinking about the title to my blog than a few minutes, if that - but perhaps that was for the best. Obviously no clue I was picking a brand to follow me for decades and would probably have choked if I had. I am aware it is also the name of a famous 80s band’s first album. No, I did not know that at the time. Yes, I figured it out from Google very soon thereafter. In my defense its a common word! I did get into <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Songs from the Big Chair</span> a while later after that. It’s pretty fire. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The same year the blog began I also started writing for a website called Popmatters, for which I haven’t written in well over a decade. I burnt that bridge down to a smoldering pile of ashes. Not my finest moment. That same period of personal and professional nadir also saw a similar process of professional immolation with the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal,</span> though I’d later be welcomed back. Hopefully I’ve made it worth their time? </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But I’m getting ahead of myself! Although it was a dark period in my life 2004 was nonetheless an extraordinarily <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">productive</span> period - a pattern that would recur with later depressive episodes. I produced steady work for my blog, Popmatters, and the print <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> simultaneously for a few good years, spanning the last months of my marriage through to my single and shiftless years in Worcester and my school daze in Holyoke and Amherst. In that time I went from being an ignorant whiny shithead who spent way too much time feeling sorry for themself to a slightly less ignorant and slightly less whiny shithead who still spent way too much time feeling sorry for themself. The trick was always to act like I knew more than I did and paper over the difference with bellicosity. Ideally, or so my thinking went, I would find time to figure it out and catch up later. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Still waiting to catch up, hoping nobody notices!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If that sounds like I’m being hard on myself, well, yes. I may well be. Going back I have sometimes - not always but <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">sometimes</span> - been surprised at my past facility. However, I still maintain I was incapable of articulating a proper opinion until at least the age of thirty, formed and deformed as I still was by early influences I wasn’t old enough to shake. Maybe I liked good things, maybe I liked bad things, I sure didn’t know how to express the difference in a way that mattered. At least to start with. The <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> editors who printed my work in the 2000s were doing me a kindness. But I kept at it! Dirk Deppey succeeded Milo George and proved slightly more hands-on, but by then I was turning in much cleaner prose and most of what I wrote was finding the page. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Milo deserves special attention in any recounting of my early career. He thought I was good enough to keep publishing and he thought my blog was funny enough to support. After he left the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> we kept at the correspondence - he sent me a wedding announcement a few years ago, in case you were wondering what he’d been up to. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Remember the suicidal monkey fumetti? Why, of course, how could I ever forget!</span> He helped promote a handful of emergency fundraisers during very tight periods in the blog’s earliest days. I know at least a few people who contributed to my emergency grocery funds back in 2004 are still reading today. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The first comic book blogger was Neilalien. He helped out with my blog a number of times during those early years when I didn’t know what I was doing. (I still don’t know what I’m doing but Blogger makes it easier to get along now. Would have been nice to have that functionality in 2004, people!) I don’t think I was the only person in that early blogosphere he so aided. If you add all that work up at twenty years’ remove, that’s a fair bit of influence over a wide patch of online comics discourse. He was a good friend during a period where I didn’t have many. May his amulet never tarnish. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Dirk’s Journalista! blog was perhaps the single inciting incident of the comics blogosphere - before he started there really wasn’t any center of gravity, let along community. His page organized, curated, and thereby nurtured what had been on a large and ill-defined countryside dotted with dozens upon dozens of separate fiefdoms. He patronage was crucial in the early years of the blog.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After Neil and Dirk, respectively, I’d argue the third pillar of the classic blogosphere was <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">and still to this day remains</span> Mike Sterling. He sets the example. He started his blog about a month or so before I started mine and has remained a consistent presence on the comics internet for the last eighteen years. Every single time I have fallen behind - gone unfortunate amounts of time between writing or posting - I think of Mike, still plugging away, still as essential as ever. An extraordinarily clear and lucid prose stylist, as I have more than once recommended to younger writers for study. Born the same day but having started blogging a little later, Andrew Weiss was perhaps the best writer among our classic group of comics bloggers. If you like anything I have ever done that combines pop culture writing with memoir, he’s the guy from whom I stole all my moves. He’s better at it, though.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I was propped up through these early years by the kind patronage of a number of publishers and creators who sent me books over this period. Very soon after launching the site Larry Young at AiT/ Planet Lar sent me, I believe, just about everything his company ever published. God help me I wrote about much of it. Oni also deserves a great deal of credit for supporting The Hurting in its early years, and we can single out James Lucas Jones specifically for that because I went back and checked. They and he took me seriously and kept me on their comp list for a long time, and I certainly appreciate that. I owe a great debt of gratitude to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">everyone</span> who sent me books over the years: it was practice and I needed the material for teething. I hope you got some good feedback. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Giving <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">productive</span> feedback is a hard task and something I don’t feel I fully grasped until I was a teacher, many years after I had already been blogging and editing. My first exposure to more than a few cartoonists of note was through my inbox, via requests for reviews from unknown talent reaching out to someone who was more or less on the same rung of the ladder, laterally speaking. I tried my best to do well by work I liked and creators I respected, especially those who respected me enough to reach out.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Perhaps the most significant event of that journeyman period of my writing as a critic was the advent of Jog and his Blog, AKA Joe McCulloch. Now coediting the Journal with Tucker, who also introduced himself to me sometime around then if memory serves. I have only one time in my life felt the visceral whoosh of being lapped on the field, but in truth it was a freeing sensation. Whatever pressure I felt in those first few years of writing lifted - that ambition to be and become, for lack of a better phrase, A Prominent Voice in comics. That competition is futile because there’s always going to be someone who writes better and knows more just around the corner. The only competition that matters is yourself. Anyway. Not so bad to be the Salieri of comics critics. Turns out Salieri wasn’t such a bad guy after all. He didn’t get Yo-kai Watch either.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And of course Tucker. Based on his earliest blog output I would not necessarily have guessed he’d end up being Editor at the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span>. But, hell, it certainly wasn’t going to be me! Might as well give it to someone who knows how to get up in the morning and goes out of his way to make sure I always have something to do. He’s the person who checks in on me when no one else does. Maxwell Perkins to my Hollywood Fitzgerald. He once set a copy of the first Claremont <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> Omnibus on fire. I think about him trying to burn that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">surprisingly flame-resistant </span>book more than just about any other piece of comics criticism I read in that period. If he did that today he’d probably have to flush his social media and go into hiding.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">While I am hardly the first or even the hundredth writer from whom to ever take career advice, I have nevertheless picked up a few bits of wisdom from two decades of receiving (very small amounts of) money in exchange for writing. The key to maintaining a career is to recognize the ancient wisdom that there are three cardinal virtues to which every freelancer must adhere, artist or writer alike: you must be fast, you must be good, and you must be easy to work with. Editors want nothing more and nothing less than those three things. But the rub is, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">you only get to pick two.</span> I’m not, have never been particularly dependable in terms of deadlines, I freely admit. But I apologize profusely as I turn in my late but very clean copy. So I persist.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">During the first decade of my career I wrote many hundreds of reviews, of which the handful that saw print in the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> were only the tip of a very large iceberg. For Popmatters I wrote endless reams of music reviews, with some movie, book, and TV reviews poking in around the sides as well. Even a couple comics pieces, such as my panning of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Black Hole</span>. What can I say? At the time my reach exceeded my grasp. (I’d still say those gorgeous pools of black ink are only about an inch deep, if you know what I mean. But I’d find a more elliptical way of saying it, as I just did.) Somewhere along the line I also became an editor for the site, which in practice meant copy editor. I never had time to actually work with writers or develop articles, but I did copy edit hundreds upon hundreds of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">other</span> peoples’ reviews. This turned out to be great practice for teaching, as a matter of fact. For my own blog I pushed onward with loads more comic book reviews, as well as any number of extended blog essays. A massive amount of writing by any measure.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In 2007 I returned to school to finish my undergraduate degree. Dropping out of UC Berkeley in order to wash up at UMass Amherst many years later may seem a strange progression but the latter turned out far more my speed. One of many events that predicated the decision to return to school was my resounding failure as a writer of fiction, a vocation I had kept at steadily for almost a decade. It was a demoralizing, brutal process that ended in definitive failure and pushed me away from writing any more fiction for a clean decade. In hindsight it’s a blessing none of that early fiction was actually published, as it was mostly terrible, reflected poorly on the person who wrote it, and would have probably ensured a short and painful career had I inexplicably succeeded. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That was, as you can imagine, a giant bitter horse pill to swallow, but swallow I did. Hindsight, she is a bitch. Around that time I was also starting to notice that many of the people who had started blogging around the time I started blogging had matriculated to actual careers of some kind - those that wanted them, at least, seemed to be finding purchase in the world of paying work. I struggled likewise with the fact that I knew full well <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">why</span> I wasn’t offered those opportunities - scabrous reputation was only a small part of it, I certainly wasn’t the only asshole roaming the plains of the early blogosphere. The problem was actually, simply, that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">I didn’t know how to network, and certainly not how to ask for work.</span> Still do not know or understand these things. It’s easy to blame anyone but yourself, but who else was to blame? I’m the person who flamed out from both <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Popmatters</span> and the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> around the same time, no one put a gun to my head and made me be depressed for years on end. At that time in my life I couldn’t maintain the freelance gigs I had, let alone seek out more remunerative pastures. Hard cheese, old bean!</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So the lessons of my first full decade as a writer was that being a writer was hard, I wasn’t anywhere near good enough, and I had a child’s understanding of self-promotion. Academia seemed a feasible Plan B, at the time. I was good at it, or at least, could be good when I overcome the brain fog and attention problems that plagued my academic career (probably due to the same undiagnosed ADHD that most everyone my age seems to have had all along). The writing I did for school over that decade was not fun. It was never not effortful. I could do it, sure. I became adept at doing it very quickly. At my peak, during coursework for graduate school I could do four 20-25 page seminar papers in the space of eight or nine days. They maybe wouldn’t be the most original works of scholarship, but they read well and that’s not nothing in academia. Communicating complex ideas through straightforward prose isn’t easy. It was hard to a large degree because I knew I was writing material that would only be read by one person. It felt like a retreat. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As far as my blog I made a conscious decision around the time I returned to California from Massachusetts to never again give a shit about making money writing. Trying to make money had never worked for me and only estranged me from my actual constituency. Even during my most productive periods I’ve never made enough for anything more than the occasional splurge at the comic shop. But my blog kept a following even as general blog readership declined and my posting became increasingly intermittent. Somewhere along the line many of those other internet venues at which my putative blogging peers found some remunerative purchase started to die off, victim of a number of different factors in the consolidating churn of early teens. Much of whatever money there had been in the larger ecosystem of culture writing online dried up. All that was left were the lifers. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My core readership stuck through all this, lifers among the lifers. So I plugged at it. My readers knew if they checked in periodically I would usually have something substantial, at least every week or two. My core readers, blessed be thy names, kept coming back through the years when I was trying to hawk my terrible fiction and through the years where I was depressed and angry at everything for no reason and through the years where I thought my bad Photoshop cartoons were funny. Of course I wasn’t going to let them down. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Did I resent the fact that more people still showed up to see me eviscerate random superhero crossovers than anything else? Sure, but I talked about it and talked through it. After many years of fighting against the obvious I came around to the idea that having a specialty isn’t the same as being typecast. It’s good to have a niche. People like me writing about crossovers and yelling at Brian Michael Bendis. Just so long as it’s not the only thing I have to do, I’m OK playing “Freebird” once in a while. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Still, the process of getting there was long and occasionally bitter. I was sick of writing reviews and resented to a degree the fact that I still needed to keep at the format to keep a readership. But, you know, it <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">is</span> a comic book blog. If I didn’t want to write about comic books why would I still have it? So I kept at it, but also gave free reign to my spleen and tried to steer clear of anything that resembled review format - 4-6 paragraphs running 500-1000 words, more or less. A straightjacket I spent years ripping to shreds. Check out “Justice League Shitburgers” for an example, but please don’t be surprised by the choleric tone. I was angry, for many reasons, only a few of which I understood. I’m glad I grew out of the mood but I’m also glad I refused to walk away. As I said, I was angry. I needed the grounding.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Without that grounding, who knows where I could have ended? A lot of people were angry online in the early 2010s. The worst I ever got was posting self-indulgent semi-edgelord bullshit on my comics blog. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From roughly 2010-2014 The Hurting was my only outlet, save for a handful of appearances on Tucker’s blog and his column on the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal’s</span> website (which is how I snuck back in the back door after flaming out in the final months of the print <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal’s</span> existence). No editor, no expectations, just my general guilt over not posting and desire to not abandon my audience. This period coincided with coursework for my graduate program - customarily two to three years of classes and seminar papers in preparation for moving onto exams and dissertations. I learned an immense amount during this period, as you might expect, and perhaps the most important skill was working under tight inflexible deadlines. Writing seminar papers is the least fun writing chore imaginable, so I became adept at writing them fast. Turns out that’s a good skill to cultivate. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Nevertheless around 2013 I began to peter out. In the buildup to my exams I made the conscious decision to more or less retire as a writer. I had a blog and I’d probably keep doing that but I needed to stop kidding myself that it was ever going to turn into anything else. More to the point, I needed to focus my attention on school. That was my future, or at least a believed for a solid few months sometime around 2013 or ‘14. But then fate intervened, in the form of Oliver Sava, representing the Onion’s AV Club. Turned out the comics review feature needed a strong second and he was hosting tryouts. Somehow or other my name came up. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I surprised myself at the time with how much I cared. At the time, and frankly to a large degree today, my reputation was opaque. Who remembered me? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Someone</span> did. After years of wanting some kind of stable gig working for an established outlet and being unable to bridge that gap through my own initiative, just such a position appeared at the precise moment I gave up the (admittedly desultory) hunt. After a brief try-out period he gave the go-ahead and I dove right in. For the first few months he had to tell me, more than once, to pull back on the throttle and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">write less.</span> I was just happy for the venue, and to feel remembered. At this remove I don’t recall the precise order of events, but eventually we were joined by Shea Hennum and Caitlin Rosberg. For a good couple years we had the best comics coverage going, and we know this because we won the Eisner for that in 2017. But I’m getting ahead of myself. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Writing reviews for the AV Club felt like taking off leg weights after a period of studied and labor-intensive antagonism against the form. Inasmuch as I know how to do anything at this point in my life I think I know how to write comic book reviews. There’s a part of my brain more or less permanently devoted to trying to figure out how to talk about comics in a perceptive way. Whether I wish it or no. It’s not easy, and in fact, I’d argue gets harder the more you’ve done it - unless you revert to formula. For me it’s about reinventing the wheel every time I sit down. Not because I want to but because I’ve done the formula and it’s not conducive to good writing. I can’t repeat myself so every piece has to be new. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It wasn’t just reviews at the AV Club. There were a handful of roundtable discussions and interviews, as well as a small pile of features. I had a great deal of fun writing a series of articles which were more or less potted histories of characters and concepts appearing in contemporaneous movies - an Ant-Man article the week before the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Ant-Man</span> movie, an introduction to the Iron Man / Captain America feud the week prior to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Civil War,</span> etc. They required a good deal of work and research, in the form of reading piles of old comics, the act of which provided needed enjoyment during an otherwise sallow period of my life. First time sitting down to read the Ostrander <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Suicide Squad</span> cover to cover, after nibbling at some highlights over the years. (Don’t tell Fiffe - the original run almost precisely coincided with the “DC is icky” phase of my childhood.) People seemed to like them, in any event. I enjoyed writing more accessible histories and wouldn’t mind the opportunity to do more like that in the future. It’s nice to not always complain. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Otherwise, there was sadly a lot of room for complaints. Even as I enjoyed writing about comics comics were having problems. The later part of my tenure at the AV Club coincided with an ugly downturn at both of the Big 2. I’ve written about this at length elsewhere, so allow me merely to allude to that fact that ca. 2016 represented at least from the perspective of this critic a nadir for Marvel, coming hot on the heels of another similar cratering on the part of DC a few years previous. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rebirth</span> was underway by then but hit about eighteen months too late to engage me. By then everything felt tired. Maybe it was just me? I needed time away. I had lost my eye, among many other things. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My years at the AV Club also coincided with an inauspicious period in my personal life. Writing about comics was just about the only highlight of a dark period that ultimately saw me bottoming out in the Spring of 2016. Turns out I was unhappy with a few things. It is necessary at this time to allude to an essay written that year, <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2016/10/one-hundred-and-sixty-four-days.html" target="_blank">“One Hundred and Sixty Four Days.”</a> If you haven’t read it, you should probably just go do that. Turned out the act of writing an essay to recount a myriad of changes and developments in my life also significantly changed my life. No spoilers. After hitting rock bottom - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">a harrowing process described in that thrilling essay!</span> - I resolved to remake my life in every way I could. But it took me a while to figure out what that would mean in terms of career and direction. Initially I assumed that would entail knuckling down with my academic career, actually finishing the work for the doctorate and going from there. “One Hundred and Sixty Four Days” was, if you can believe it, intended as a kind of swan song. In the throes of tremendous life changes I had a lot of things to say to my friends and fans and supporters, the people who had stuck with me across the decades. If you had asked me the day before I published it, even given the positive reaction of a handful of advance readers (literally the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">only</span> time in twenty years I’ve ever solicited comment before publishing an essay), I would have had a hard time believing more than five hundred people - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">tops, lifetime</span> - would ever read the whole thing.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Significantly more than five hundred people read that essay. It went semi-viral, about as viral as a 10,000K longread about comics, Star Wars, and gender can go. Listed on Metafilter, even. The feedback was universally glowing - and I’m really kind of underselling it, I think. Go back and look at the comments sections yourself. Bluntly, people reacted to that essay in a way I had never imagined people could react to an essay. And not just generally supportive of my life changes. Think about it: people do not read 10,000 words in one sitting at their computers unless they like what they’re reading. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Really</span> like. There’s a recognized place in the internet ecosystem for #longreads but people are under no obligation to finish anything. Especially if they didn’t pay any money for a physical copy of a magazine. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(The question remains: would I have divulged quite so <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">many</span> intense personal secrets if I had known in advance how many people would read it? A question for me to ponder as I lie awake in bed at night for the rest of my life!)</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In one hot minute possibilities shifted. Prim and diaphanous ambitions to carry through with academia dissolved like dew in the face of real and genuine evidence to the extent that my talent and enthusiasm lay elsewhere than in writing cramped monographs for the delectation of none. (To say nothing of the fact that my academic fortunes were such that I was already by then pretty must destined for the life of the permanent adjunct, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">at best -</span> not even counting the nervous breakdown that I got partly from the process of flunking my qualifying exam.) Perhaps this is an unusual dilemma for graduate students. I don’t like spending time writing anything that isn’t going to be <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">read.</span> Feels like wasting time to do anything else. I don’t even like taking notes for my own purposes so I almost never do. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The only problem is, of course, it’s not like resolving to continue to write for a public audience meant opportunities suddenly materialized <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">ex nihilo.</span> Hah! Quite the opposite. Reinvigorated ambition without focus can be just as harmful to the body as boundless ambition welded to the purpose of mediocre work. All I knew to do, all I know how to do, was write. Did I have a plan to get that work to market? Nope Do I? Still working on it! Most important thing is always the work. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My relationship with the AV Club was coming to its end by the middle of 2017. My life was such that I needed to step away, both for practical and spiritual reasons, from a consistent engagement with the comics industry. As I mentioned, I wasn’t enjoying anything by then. I wrote a series of disappointed reviews that Spring and faded away. Although I never formally left, I’m sure Oliver sensed I was growing impatient.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After posting “One Hundred and Sixty Four Days” on Tuesday the 11th of October - Coming Out Day - the response was so positive I needed to know it wasn’t a fluke. So I wrote a follow-up, “Gimme Some Truth,” over the course of only seven days, and it was pretty good. (It was about Spoon [the band], so no relation to comic books). It wasn’t enough to write <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">one </span>good thing, I had to be capable of writing many good things. So I just kept writing and that first essay eventually became a book called <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always The Best Day Of My Life</span>. I wrote that book as I was preparing to wrap up my life in Davis, the career in academia, and my relationship. It’s a good book, I think. It was proof of concept, to myself if no one else. I knew how to write, for real. Not like before. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">OK, now do it again.</span> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Any old fool can write one review, but will they stick around to write three or four hundred? Lots of people write books. I wrote a few in my early 20s. It’s not hard! Can you keep coming back? Can you get up to do it again after the first book doesn’t move, after the second book doesn’t move, after the fourth or the eighth? Depending on how you count? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Moving ultimately doesn’t matter. </span>It’s about the work. Nothing is more important than the work.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The postscript to the Davis period came during the Summer of 2017, having dismantled my previous life and decamped to my parents’ front room. Practically shell-shocked for months. I found out we won the Eisner off Twitter, sitting in the living room. Surreal to have accomplished a lifelong goal more or less without even having processed so doing. The nomination and award preamble occurred during the eye of the storm of a traumatic life change, and as such the nomination barely registered before the ceremony had come and gone. The important lesson here was that I got what I most wanted after I got over myself and learned to work together as part of a larger team. What mattered was the work we did.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yes, indeed <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">- the real Eisner was the friends we made along the way.</span> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(Of course, worth noting: in the time it has taken to plan and compile and produce the present volume, the Onion’s AV Club - you know, that same august institution in whose name Oliver, Caitlin, Shea, and I won that Eisner - was dismantled and sold for parts by vulture capital. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">They will not be happy until we are dead.</span>)</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After finishing <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always The Best Day Of My Life </span>my output for the remainder of 2017 was limited to one essay, the magisterial, draining, and distinctly non-comics related “Delaware.” Somewhere along the line Tucker became Editor at the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal’s</span> website, alongside Tim Hodler, and one of the first acts of their junta was to formally invite me to return from exile. I seem to recall I put him off for a few months (due to the aforementioned period of shell shock), but by the end of the year I had returned to regular reviews for the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> and launched a new column. Technically my second column for the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> but the first was awful so we shall not mention it.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2018 turned out to be the most productive year of my life. Although I didn’t quite manage weekly output for the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> I did put out the better part of a book through my column, called “Ice Cream for Bedwetters.” The first volume of the column actually ran on Medium.com - I put three pieces up there to have some articles with my name and links on them to bounce around their algorithm. I still get hits from those pieces so it wasn’t a waste of time. Now, once again, I want to stress that I <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">really did</span> think it was a good name for a column. It’s a memorable line from <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Logan,</span> a popular comic book movie that also had the virtue of being pretty good. It made me laugh in the theater and it seemed like it would be a great name for a column. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No one else had this thought. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">No one.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In addition to my work for the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> I also wrote five fantasy novels over the course of that year and change. People like them. I’m still trying to move them. I have twenty more of them I need to write before I die, a whole saga in entirety, as of now only in my head. Could be my life’s work? (After writing about comics, that is.) The few people who have read it so far seem to think it’s “pretty good.” The series is called The Array and as of now it’s available at my Patreon. Hopefully available elsewhere sometime before I die? Fingers crossed! </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. I put out a lot of this work, my fiction as well as a few bits of non-<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> criticism, in the form of an ebook magazine called <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Hurting Gazette</span>. I had a great deal of fun making that. I put out sixteen or seventeen issues before the experiment died on the vine. I never received a single piece of feedback about anything I wrote in there. I know it was downloaded. I know giveaways were distributed. No indication that it was ever read by another human being. After a while I gave up and no one seemed to notice. As fun as fiction serialization seemed to me I couldn’t get <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">one</span> additional person on the face of the planet to care. I needed some kind of feedback, something to validate proof of concept before I could try to put it over on a wider scale. As no such feedback ever emerged the project wheezed to an end. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Still, it would be churlish to complain overly. Although it didn’t last as long as I’d wish the 2018-19 period was, as I said, the most prolific of my life. In addition to my work for the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal - </span> including the book-length run of Volume 2 of “Ice Cream for Bedwetters” - there were the five fantasy novels, as well as an additional volume of critical memoir, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Zeroes</span>. The latter was the “proper” sequel to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always The Best Day Of My Life, </span>focused on Star Wars and the tumultuous circumstances of my first year after leaving Davis. It’s a dark ride! </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(Technically speaking the proper reading order would place the collected “Ice Cream” as the middle volume. That volume, titled <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Salting the Wounds</span>, hasn’t been collected yet. It’s all done, more or less, and still available on the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal’s</span> website. It’s only a matter of finding the time to do one last round of line-editing for [what is now] four-year-old material. It hasn’t felt a pressing chore. It’s all there if you want to read it right this second.)</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. In 2018 the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> site was nominated for the Eisner in the same category that the AV Club had won the year previous. As I recall Tucker didn’t rate his chances much but I never had any doubt. He wasn’t the only editor at the time but his voice was immediately audible in the mix. The site was hitting on all the cylinders and had begun a process of rejuvenation that continues apace to this day. Still only sporadically recognized by people who believe the magazine’s internal chronometer remains perpetually set to 1987, but <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">whatevs</span>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The period in question for the award covers the publication of some of my very best pieces - “Jerk City, USA” and my review of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Love & Rockets</span> #5, to name two included herein. I’m as proud of the work I did for the magazine that year as any I’ve ever done. That was also my most <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">consistent</span> period as a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> contributor in two decades, for what it’s worth. The takeaway for me was: two years in a row, when the greats of the industry assembled to judge the finest achievements in the fields of comics - or, at least, the admittedly niche category of Best Comics-Related Periodical / Journalism - I was counted among that august number. As a writer I was a measurable asset to the editors and publications that hired me. A critic can aspire to naught else. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Consider the fact that, prior to this strange twofer, I had more or less resolved to leave the field <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">- twice over.</span> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">While I wish I could say that I was able to immediately pivot from that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">annus mirabilis</span> onto bigger and better things, life intervened. Living with my parents has proven eventful. No restful convalescence. They’re both retired and disabled and money has more than often been very tight. We live on fixed incomes. Almost since the moment I arrived either my mom or dad has needed pressing medical care, a tendency climaxing with these last two years of my father’s decline due to advanced Parkinson’s. That this period of enforced familial seclusion almost precisely coincided with the advent of Covid-19 has provided a strange degree of solidarity through an isolating period. There are few circumstances in which being stuck on a farmhouse with my parents in the empty rural countryside of Northern California would represent the ideal arrangement, but the last two years as of this writing have presented just such a set of circumstances. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Providing round-the-clock care for my dad has sapped most of the free time and energy that would be otherwise devoted to writing. Work on The Array ceased after the burst of enthusiasm that parented the first five volumes - fiction is difficult writing relative to anything else and can’t be done piecemeal in the same way as criticism. I can’t dip in and out of doing it. Even given that, I produced only a handful of reviews for the whole of 2020. As 2021 dawned I resolved to correct the downward trend at the risk of forfeiting either my self-respect or my audience.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Said audience has grown steadily these last few years despite my dilatory schedule. I recognize bursts of unregulated manic output followed by long fallow stretches where life intervenes is really not a good business model or career path. Even though I’ve been around for a while I have had neither the resources nor the stability to do any editing or publishing myself, god forbid. (Although I would very much like to do so in the future.) But here’s the funny thing: I’ve done that a number of times now, more or less, the whole break-and-return cycle - probably four depending on how you count? The last decade or so of my career. And each time, instead of having to fight to regain my audience, I have found a few <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">more</span> people waiting for me. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">That’s not how this is supposed to work!</span> I’m a comic book critic who writes excessively long essays about the politics of Batman. I shouldn’t have any kind of following, and yet I do. If that sounds like I’m bragging you should know there have been many times in my life where the fact of that following has been all I’ve had to buoy myself against <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">vicissitudes</span>. A not insubstantial number of people would notice if The Hurting never again updated or the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal</span> never again ran a review. How many people? </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Well . . . maybe enough to fill a small gymnasium? Around there. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A few of those people care enough to subsidize my endless summer of bohemian persistence, through the Patreon. That especially has been a source of great consolation. The concrete proof of that financial support pushes me forward when nothing else does. With that spirit in 2021 I commenced the “Summer of Tegan,” a season dedicated to my hitting the keyboard as hard as I possibly could, for the express edification of the people who’d been with me the longest. Only comics work. That’s the foundation. I hadn’t updated The Hurting in a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">long</span> time and needed to do so, for my own aforementioned self-respect if nothing else. So I commenced a new project on the subject of the X-Men and fandom, the details of which are described below. The most accessible material I could think of to write about, and because of that at least partially pitched to readers who don’t already know my work. After a couple substantial posts on the subject of Rogue I set about to produce a great deal for the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Journal.</span> I also popped up on Shelfdust, too, with a piece called <a href="https://shelfdust.com/2021/06/08/shako-in-america/" target="_blank">“Shako in America.”</a> It’s a great essay and it would most certainly be here, but for the fact that I gave it to Steve as an exclusive and will honor that gift for a while yet. You should go read it! </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All told the 2021 “Summer of Tegan” produced approximately 80,000 words. Much of it was good. Much of it seemed popular. My editor voiced not a single complaint when I plopped 15K about 90s Batman in his lap for the Summer season. It felt good to do that, just - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">flex,</span> a bit. I needed a win, folks. I needed a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">streak. </span>If nothing else, to reassure the people who had stuck by me after all these years and all these nonproductive troughs, that I was good for it, and that I was always going to be good for it.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tom Spurgeon died in 2019. I wouldn’t be writing these words today if it weren’t for words he wrote decades ago. We didn’t know each other well - in fact, we barely spoke, and in fact stopped speaking for years because of some sparky exchange or other. I do not remember what it could have been, not in the least at this remove. From what I am given to understand he was like that with a lot of people, and a lot of people persisted and forged relationships anyway. At the time we corresponded I wasn’t of the mindset for that kind of prickly relationship, even less so now. I avoid conflict, most especially online, and extra most especially within my field. I did that already for almost a decade and it wasn’t fun. I didn’t like the person my reputation reflected. Trivial controversy seemed less important then. I like to think I got it out of my system before stakes arrived. But I’m wrong. The stakes were always there, I was just stupid. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I don’t there’s a single person with whom I ever had any kind of cross words, online over comics or any other nerd ephemera, with whom I wouldn’t sit down with today for a drink. If there’s anyone reading this today who still feels strongly about it, I’m sorry. Sincerely. I also apologize for any of my earlier reviews for which apologies might be needed. I know I was needlessly antagonistic on multiple occasions. I thought it was my job, as silly as that sounds. I was severely depressed for years and took it out on the world around me - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">also</span> about as silly as that sounds. But I think we’ve all learned some <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">lessons</span> in recents years on the subject of being performatively adversarial in public. It doesn’t do anything for anyone and only cheapens those who indulge. Hurts the work immensely. Hurts you as a writer and a person.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So I will apologize to Charles Burns as I acknowledge woeful but studied underwriting to be not quite the cardinal sin I believed as a young pedant. And I will most certainly apologize to Brian Lee O’Malley. You seem a chill dude. Chiller than me on the best day of my life. I still don’t like your book but I don’t really think <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Scott Pilgrim</span> causes spontaneous illiteracy. That was probably crossing a line but it has proven a teaching moment. Pitchfork recently publicly redid some old reviews to reflect hindsight, maybe the<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> Journal</span> should likewise be afforded a do-over here. I will however <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">not</span> apologize to Scott McCloud. You earned your “L” with that one, dude, but good on you for still lining up to get your lumps with the rest of the chumps. And I will <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">never,</span> for so long as I live, apologize to Brian Michael Bendis. For anything. You should draw more! You had some chops, kid. Could have done something with that.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s about the work, yes. But it’s also about being read. Being heard - feeling connected to the world. Something I haven’t often felt in my actual life. Due to circumstances owing to nothing more than geography I didn’t live near any comic books stores growing up (and not a lot of other kids, either). I never had problems getting to shops, mind. We did lots of traveling around the state, lots of visiting of grandparents and shopping trips in bigger cities. Still, when I finally managed a pull list it was at a store an hour and a half away which I visited precisely once a month. Even if I had access to comics I never really had any community around comics. Not until the internet, and still only that since with the exception of a brief stint as a “regular” at my shop in Oklahoma. Shoutout to Mike at the Comic Empire, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">if you’re still there, sorry I fell off correspondence, it was a very rough time.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In school I was the only person I knew who read comics. I didn’t get any shit for it, actually, never experienced that kind of bullying - this was the 80s and 90s, comics weren’t uncool. Kids generally liked having someone around who could pass around the one where Batman gets his back broken, or who knew how to draw Wolverine’s costume right. (But which costume, I would ask?) In high school I made some friends to whom I literally loaned out longboxes worth of comics, just to have someone to share with. That was quite fun, though a hell of a lot of work to establish a little high school reading group built around discussing post-Crisis DC continuity. So, uh. I’ve always wanted more conversation than I ever had. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I talked comics with my mom more than anyone else, because she was in the car. Also bought <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Spawn</span> for years longer than advisable because she liked it. Honestly, when I was a kid I thought Todd McFarlane was “just OK,” it was actually<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> my mom </span>who saw that guy’s work and realized he was the one to follow. She was still flipping through <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Spawn</span> when I was trying to get her to read <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Starman</span>, which I don’t think she ever read at all - in hindsight, who had the better eye? Perishability often surprises. She just mentioned to me in passing she read the first run of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Heavy Metal </span>in the 70s, which somehow never came up before. Clearly she’s a lot smarter than me. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. The conversation I have sought has too often been one-sided. The peak era of the comics blogosphere was really less than a decade, give or take, spanning from Neilalian and Journalista! through the salad days of Dick Hyacinth and Fanboy Rampage. I held onto that spark for as long as I could but the fact is that sticking around those venues, even if they still had people in them, meant a more respectful and one-sided conversation. No one reads the comments anymore! Soon the entire world would be the comments section. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I pine for that feedback. Through long periods of shattering isolation across my adult life it has felt like the only real communication I’ve had. My method was simple, for years: every day I’d post something and then sit back and wait for people in the comments to complain. That always pissed me off, never failed to infuriate me. The problem wasn’t however that my serial complainers were wrong. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">No! </span>The problem is that, on balance, the folks who chimed in during the first years of the blog’s existence had good and productive criticism. And I hated it, of course, not because they were schmucks but because they were <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">right.</span> So I’d read the critique and internalize it and set about, as ruthlessly possible, to correct whatever the problems were. Maybe I kicked a bit. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But mostly, I just got up and did it all over again the next day. Walk directly and fearlessly towards whatever isn’t working. Try to say something that doesn’t get cut to pieces, come home covered in scars. Rinse and repeat for, oh, five or six years, however long it was until comments started to die off. Just like the origin of Doomsday in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Superman / Doomsday : Hunter / Prey</span> #2! Turns out half a decade of having hundreds of people pore over your essays looking for errors in style, fact, argument, and attitude is great for weeding out negative tendencies. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Really</span> good for learning to focus on exactly what you want to say and nothing else. It sucks to put up a huge post about something or other you’ve put a lot of work into only to find all the comments are about a silly overstatement in the next-to-last paragraph, or whatever. You learn from those lessons or you don’t get better. This is what I taught my students years later, teaching writing for undergraduates. Attack your own work with dispassionate ruthlessness. You’re not attacking yourself, you’re attacking error. You need to talk directly to the reader. Errors are distractions from that. Fix the problem, stab that error in the heart and never do it again. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I miss that feedback. No one really cares to talk back anymore, and honestly the way people talk back in 2022 doesn’t seem <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">quite</span> so constructive as what I’m describing from the Golden Age of the Blogosphere. Now, I’ve been doing this for a long time and as much as I value the fans who have been with me since as far back since 2002, I can’t write like I used to. Not if I want to be read by anyone under the age of forty. I want to be read by whoever is talking about comics <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">today.</span> That means I have to keep at it, work hard to stay relevant. Change. Keep my edge or someone will slit my throat as I rest fat and sassy upon a bed of laurels. I live on a farm. I know how to get to the glue factory, thank you. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because it does not matter if I ever make any real money from writing. I fully intend to keep at it, don’t get me wrong. What you don’t see, what no one ever sees, are the reams and reams of rejection letters. Through much of the preceding history my writing activity was punctuated by a steady and consistent drop of rejection notices from agents and editors. Excepting the college interregnum I have been trying to ingratiate myself to the publishing industry for well over a decade, albeit split down the middle and beginning at the turn of the century. I was getting rejection notices from agents before 9-11 and am still getting rejection notices from agents during the Biden administration. Persistence or delusion? U-Decide!</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because, again, it ultimately does not matter one bit. What matters is the work. What matters is keeping at it. I intend to continue to write for a larger audience than I have. My fantasy novels have met an enthusiastic response from every single person who has read them, including people inside the publishing industry, but alas - not a single one of those people has been able to net me more than a form rejection from a relevant agent. It’s an <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">impressive</span> run of rejection notices, you must acknowledge, spanning multiple states, multiple decades, and multiple genres of writing.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For half a decade I taught the skill of writing query / cover / resume letters. A most common and necessary skill! Hundreds of college students from all walks of life learned this skill from someone who has themselves <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">never</span> written a successful query. All my gigs, at least since the very beginning, have been by invitation. No one ever says yes when I ask. Took me two years to get into grad school. Even my first published piece was technically a rejection. Why, I received a “no” in the e-mail earlier today! <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">No joke. </span>To this day every no burns like a molten ingot, a white hot ball of humiliation and despair that nestles down in the pit of the stomach. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you can’t take that numbing rage and hammer it, beat it flat, shape it into something new and better that you can put down on paper - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">you will falter.</span> You will falter and it will eat you alive and make you strangle yourself with your own entrails. Because, again, it ultimately does not matter one bit. What matters is the work. It <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">has</span> to be about the work because in the end you can’t count on anything else to ever materialize. Ask yourself the question, are you OK doing this for the rest of your life if you never make another dollar? If you die penniless and forgotten? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Whatever the hell else was I going to do? </span>This is my home. I already have the terrible arthritis in both hands to prove it. Better hung for a wolf than a sheep!</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If I want to write something I write it for myself with a clean conscience. However, if someone wants me to write for them all they have ever had to do was ask. Thankfully I lack sufficient financial stability to be unduly threatened by the injudicious application of scruple or self-regard. In a world where having enough money to live is an immoral act my hands remain squeaky clean! Helps in that regard that I don’t know <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">how</span> to pitch.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As a writer I don’t compete with anyone but myself. I think more people might like the opportunity to watch that competition. A rejection slip from the publishing industry at this point hurts their credibility more than mine. Maybe I’m delusional, perhaps. Probably! But that’s how you keep getting back up after being kicked over and over again, every hit square in the face another rung down the ladder that rises up and out of suffocating poverty . . . it’s about the work. My goal as a writer is to make enough money that I can go to McDonalds whenever I want. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">That’s the dream!</span> I’m used to being poor and can live on very little. I have however discovered I cannot live without the work, and require subsidy in which to do that work. The faith in the work remains a reason for getting out of bed in the morning, as well as the audience without whom there would be no work. Fighting that for the better part of a decade almost killed me. Made me want to give up. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The key to all that feedback over all those years - even all that teaching - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">was learning that the work was </span>always<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> about the audience.</span> Even as, by all appearances, my work has become longer and more baroque and inarguably more self-indulgent - well, blame the people who’ve been reading and coming back for years. People who show up have a big influence on whatever follows, a lesson for life as well as writing. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Comics </span>show up, repeatedly, in my life. Whenever I have turned my back on comics, comics has come for me. I wrote a lot about music in the first decade of this century - even voted in the Pazz & Jop for the better part of a decade. But no one has ever come looking for the person who wrote all those hundreds of music reviews during the Bush years. If I stop writing about comic books? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">People come looking for me.</span> That means something, right? As much as I’d like to sell my fantasy novels to Hollywood and become fantastically rich and renowned, to sell my criticism and win that fabled first Pulitzer for writing <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">about</span> comic books - comics themselves will never not be the foundation for everything that follows. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What matters is the work. Tom Spurgeon died in 2019. I wouldn’t be writing these words today if it weren’t for words he wrote decades ago. What I learned from him is that if you do the work the right way the doing eventually becomes more important than the work. The doing becomes the glue that binds your life and your community. I am not shy about asserting that I want an audience, and that I’m always trying to expand that audience. (Certainly wouldn’t <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">mind</span> making money, if it ever came up.) That’s why I write different things, for different audiences and different purposes. If I’m not trying to make a connection to someone what’s the point of writing anything?</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, the question remains: how do you get that audience? How do you <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">keep</span> that audience? Well, you can certainly try yelling and slinging insults. Get attention through making an ass of yourself. I tried that. It got people into the yard, sure. But it doesn’t keep anything and ends by corroding everything. The only way to actually earn and keep an audience, for real, is to show up and do the work. Find people who want to read your writing and write to them. That’s it. Write well. Get better. That’s it.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The most important thing is to stay hungry. I still wake up every day starving, and I hope I always do. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">TO</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">PS - In addition to everyone mentioned above, I would like to extend my especial thanks to Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing, Michel Fiffe, and Abe Riesman for letting me use their names to sell my stuff. Extra special thanks to Abe for going above and beyond and doing his level best to advance my career, more than just about anyone ever. He put me in his book! Also, while we’re in the neighborhood, I’d like to single out Casey Lucas for making all this possible, literally, inasmuch as she was kind enough to take an hour out of her life in 2018 to explain how to make eBooks.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">PPS - Can you believe in all this time no one has ever asked me to write a comic book???!!! Seriously, not once in twenty years. I’m right here! I am still technically trying to break into comics, is the thing. At 19 or 20, having figured out it was both impossible and inadvisable to make a frontal assault on the industry, I observed that the only sure-fire route to publication was prior experience in another field of writing. Not that different from now, actually! So I went into prose fiction. And when that didn’t move I eased into writing <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">about</span> comics, thinking at least the potential for some kind of lateral move into writing <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">in</span> comics might emerge, as it had for others. It did not emerge! And then I gave up the fiction and went into academia, with the idea in the back of my head that I knew multiple academics who had used the stability of their teaching careers to launch writing careers. And then of course once I broke into fiction that way then I could still get into comics. But <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">that</span> didn’t pay off, either, so after the interregnum in school I returned to writing nonfiction. The nonfiction got a really strong response but I couldn’t figure out how to package that enthusiasm in a way an agent could understand. So I started writing fantasy with the understanding that they only way I could be sure of getting my nonfiction into print would be as a successful fantasy writer. So, I have in the span of two decades gone from writing criticism as a sideline to keep me occupied while I worked on fiction to get into comics . . . to writing criticism as a mainline to keep me occupied while I worked on my fantasy writing, which I began for the purpose of selling the nonfiction, all of which is <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">ultimately</span> supposed to provide some kind of entry to the comics industry.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">I’m right here. </span>I’ve been waiting to sell out for years! No one has ever asked. I only ever grew a backbone because no one paid me not to. Come on, someone has to need something written . . . licensed cartoon book? Off-brand cheesecake book? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Preventative Maintenance? </span>Right here, folks. HMU. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Grimm’s Fairy Tales: The Golden Bowl</span> ain’t gonna write itself, people.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-CyzAMCKI1jRW8xWxZ2999ZcyRgFsHxMljzFd0HyGWzz_SimEtD7Des10WuwthltGkEBkH0eUC74QNth45f7QvPpZKzlVagw0pPJ7ec658JR-vMdytzZFJQfZflxmvP56kls2s__sVpl_WxYBskNsTrB58HODgQdIWQOD0KqyL87QcEi5yQ=s1730" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Hurting Library" border="0" data-original-height="1730" data-original-width="1330" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-CyzAMCKI1jRW8xWxZ2999ZcyRgFsHxMljzFd0HyGWzz_SimEtD7Des10WuwthltGkEBkH0eUC74QNth45f7QvPpZKzlVagw0pPJ7ec658JR-vMdytzZFJQfZflxmvP56kls2s__sVpl_WxYBskNsTrB58HODgQdIWQOD0KqyL87QcEi5yQ=w492-h640" title="Advertising" width="492" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-52143392432556406632021-10-07T09:00:00.044-04:002021-10-07T09:00:00.217-04:00The Journey Ends (III)<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlsFVupmaZjzeQozaYG820wtDtJnETzC87B1CuSgdAeTdaGECnGKQsvjo5O5svebCDEIhgtWPvZU0GhZ2rPpGxjpYcFvnY74Fl48DXEYniiW_63FS0rYSTLWp7IjkDFhcia2y/s1552/EB712007-FC44-4DA3-BB2C-0DCB89CE6186.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny Avengers" border="0" data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="1046" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlsFVupmaZjzeQozaYG820wtDtJnETzC87B1CuSgdAeTdaGECnGKQsvjo5O5svebCDEIhgtWPvZU0GhZ2rPpGxjpYcFvnY74Fl48DXEYniiW_63FS0rYSTLWp7IjkDFhcia2y/w432-h640/EB712007-FC44-4DA3-BB2C-0DCB89CE6186.jpeg" title="Wanda & Rogue" width="432" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The first volume of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> carries a great deal of weight - a frankly <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">enormous</span> amount of weight on its shoulders. That the first volume reads as well as it does is a minor miracle. It’s only sometimes a bad book but the impact craters from where it runs into the ditch are visible from orbit. Although it has its problems I don't want to leave you with the impression that the story has nothing to offer. Perhaps it seems more interesting in hindsight precisely because it was so thoroughly mooted by circumstances. The book itself stood out as stylistically and thematically conservative next to Hickman or Bendis on either side. It left a bad taste in peoples’ mouths due to thematic elements which occupy a fleeting amount of panel time. It's a mixed bag. A <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">very</span> mixed bag. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rick Remender had been knocking around the company for a few years prior to landing the gig, with highlights his run of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Force</span> and the “Frankencastle” saga that spun out of the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Dark Reign</span> promotion. Whatever else the man may be guilty of he still made the Punisher into a giant green Frankenstein, and for that we will be forever grateful. (No joke: his Punisher is pretty great.) Now, there are many forms <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> could have taken, including one dealing more directly with the events of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers vs X-Men.</span> However with the exception of the dispossession of Professor X’s deceased brain that launches the plot there’s no direct connection to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">AvX.</span> (Bendis’ X-Men books dealt with some of that more granular aftermath, to be fair.) The form Remender’s book <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">did</span> take was that of a sequel to his <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Force, </span>more specifically that series’ Apocalypse plotline. This wasn’t a bad idea by any stretch. The series is more generally concerned with taking the X-Men to account for the disastrous consequences of becoming ever more insulated from the rest of humanity. There’s no single storyline of the era that typifies the moral quagmire of the period than Remender’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Force</span> so it makes sense to start there. </p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">Remender’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Force</span> was technically the third relaunch of X-Force this century. The first was an unmemorable six issue mini from 2004 featuring a reunion of series creators Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza. The second ran from 2008 to 2010 and featured an updating of the concept, leaving behind Cable but keeping roughly the same attitude. Written by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, the series earned a reputation for Grand Guignol violence and gore during a particularly bloody minded period in the franchise history. The series was, after all, about Wolverine leading a black ops squad of hardened killers (and, uh, Rahne Sinclair) operating out of the aptly-named Utopia. Although that probably doesn’t seem from the description like my kind of thing, Clayton Crain’s delightfully gruesome, kinetic art elevated the enterprise significantly. The follow up, Remender’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny,</span> launched the same year the previous iteration wrapped, with a slightly different focus. Whereas the previous X-Force </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">had been a mostly humorless exercise in frothy grimdark, Remender’s follow-up was both more droll and more dynamic, although it still faltered in places. The art throughout is often superlative, with top-shelf work from the likes of Esad Ribic, Phil Noto, and Jerome <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;">Opeña.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Before getting lost in the thicket of plot and character, it’s worth pointing out that the art throughout most of the run of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> runs the gamut from very good to superlative, and precisely none of my criticism of the series plot and themes reflects on it. That the series looks <i>so</i> good in places is primarily down to MVP Daniel Acuña. His work took a while to grow on me, I admit, but grow on me it did. The panels can be cramped sometimes but generally the pages read well and the characters are very expressive. He colors his own work, and exceptionally well. Also draws a very nice Rogue. The opening arc is drawn by John Cassaday. I haven’t always cared for his latter-day material - a staginess always present in the early work comes to dominate, particularly in his X-Men. Figures look stiff to me, a tendency I didn’t notice so much on <i>Planetary</i> but which became distracting for me beginning with his <i>Astonishing</i>. Steve McNiven pops in for a few issues in the middle of the run, solid as ever. We perhaps underrate him on the basis of his consistency.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYtC8205UMZcAcP7EES6_0KhLv6GdKw41cqfA7ldOCUN_El_P91RJXVRQtjbXGltWsoNpvdiNZKMGIakeRyxFiuysxd514TDjzdf5OAf1-dvNhUwrXsYmnV_1xn4jKfytR0Ds/s1580/1652F733-CDA3-4CA4-B76D-CB96AFEBF833.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny X-Force" border="0" data-original-height="1580" data-original-width="1033" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYtC8205UMZcAcP7EES6_0KhLv6GdKw41cqfA7ldOCUN_El_P91RJXVRQtjbXGltWsoNpvdiNZKMGIakeRyxFiuysxd514TDjzdf5OAf1-dvNhUwrXsYmnV_1xn4jKfytR0Ds/w418-h640/1652F733-CDA3-4CA4-B76D-CB96AFEBF833.jpeg" title="Issue 4" width="418" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Please, make no mistake, when I say that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> was about taking the X-Men to account for their actions during the Utopia era, I mean that in the most literal way. There’s a scene where Captain America finds out the X-Men have been running a black ops squad (more than one, actually) and he reacts about as well as you could expect. Certainly further fuel for discontent among those X-Fans inclined to feel the slight, but it worked for me. It’s not a subtle message but one the story well conveys: the X-Men actually did cross important lines, lines that people acting outside the law shouldn’t be able to cross with impunity, and there needed to be consequences when it happened. That there weren’t consequences at the time is how the original problem grew into an even bigger problem. There’s probably a deleted scene devoted solely to them explaining the plot of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Necrosha</span> to Cap, blinking rapidly as if he’s had a hemorrhage. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">However even if the series is rather unambiguous in that framing, the narrative is also careful to show at every step the degree to which the Avengers themselves become compromised and lose perspective as the stakes become increasingly personal. There’s no small hypocrisy involved here and it becomes clear the moment the Grim Reaper shows up - he’s Wonder Man’s brother, after all, zombie and occasional partner to Ultron, and he hates anyone standing next to dear Simon as a matter of general principle. X-Men villains don’t have a monopoly on vendetta. That seems a fair shakeout after years of conflict: the Avengers are unambiguously right that the X-Men need to hold themselves to higher standards, but those same Avengers also learn the very swift lesson that wading wholeheartedly into X-Men problems often means arriving too late to find Captain America solutions. That means having to live with the consequences of bad decisions made in the heat of a crisis.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It doesn’t help that as the story proceeds it becomes clear that Thor is every bit as implicated in the unfolding atrocity, and for infinitely more petty reasons than the extremities of survival to which the mutants are regularly pushed. To his credit, however, Thor has always been more of an ally to the mutants than is generally recognized, due in a large part to Claremont & Simonson’s 80s collaborations. He demolished the Marauders during the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Mutant Massacre,</span> which is certainly more than <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">you</span> did. The series reveals an old school rivalry between Apocalypse and Thor dating back to the first millennium, as well as the existence of the great axe Jarnbjorn, a weapon capable of killing Celestials. One imagines the existence of such a weapon should have come up at some point during the Fourth Host of the Celestials (ca. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Thor</span> #300), but one imagines in vain. To date no one has been called to account for this misstep. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The X-Men have a hair trigger because they’re used to being dismissed and expect it as a rule even in the face of genuine good faith, and are additionally so used to operating outside the law they have no perspective on their own blind spots. The Avengers are defensive because they feel guilty for allowing the problem to go so far and are already implicated in ways they did not initially recognize. They do not understand the degree to which their public status insulates them from the lived conflict that remains the X-Men’s everyday reality - and this is true even for putative mutant Avengers like the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. They’re increasingly over their heads as the internecine conflict entangles them. Pretty solid character work, as far as it goes. Basically the same dynamic the liberal establishment maintains with every marginalized group.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hXOwnlwJPAp3A36Ja0lWdDGq46wHsr1wcLdl0tU93ETEdYbEr9z_cC7wVsaZsfJomznInrql0qQCqI60kEhyN8uYq2rIpi0kbgARaGk1ITpfrDxJBX9iaScht948WnTWVMVT/s1620/38E375E3-727A-4804-91F0-1F2B841F7F96.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rogue & Wolverine" border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1050" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hXOwnlwJPAp3A36Ja0lWdDGq46wHsr1wcLdl0tU93ETEdYbEr9z_cC7wVsaZsfJomznInrql0qQCqI60kEhyN8uYq2rIpi0kbgARaGk1ITpfrDxJBX9iaScht948WnTWVMVT/w414-h640/38E375E3-727A-4804-91F0-1F2B841F7F96.jpeg" title="Eating dinner" width="414" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Where are the devils? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Oh, the details!</span> In broad strokes these ideas make sense. In specific the work misses as much as it hits. As with most stories hinging on conflict between the Avengers and the X-Men dating back to the beginning of time, the premise of the tale depends partly on characters acting selectively <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">out</span> of character. Here at least the series has an excuse of sorts for everyone acting brittle and defensive - the X-Men have just lost a war. They shouldn’t have been fighting the war in the first place and they lost because they lost perspective. That the X-Men acknowledge the Avengers were in the right, and lose a great deal in so learning, doesn’t help it go down any smoother in the aftermath when the latter essentially begins dictating terms to the former.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To add to a combustible premise, the Scarlet Witch joins the cast and has to deal with what happens when Dr. Doom frames you for genocide and every other mutant on the planet has a hard time letting go of that. That means in practice lots of arguments between her and other mutants, specifically Rogue. She’s on the scene and just happens to have a lot of anger following the murder of Professor X at the hands of one of her most trusted friends. Sadly for Wanda, Rogue has no other place to put that anger than the woman who spent her entire career scrupulously avoiding ever fighting for other mutants. Cue hijinks? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Not really, no. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At the risk of inviting modern cliche the first stretch of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> deals with the immediate aftermath of massive trauma. Each character is processing what happened during <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">AvX - </span>to say nothing of everything else that happened across the previous decade. To add to the theme Captain America experiences ten years in another dimension in between issues of this run, due to events in his own series which was at the time also being written by Remender. Even if those specific events are immaterial to the present story the sense of shock and loss is palpable across the cast. So perhaps we forgive a bit of the abrasive tone in that light, given that the characters are the worst versions of themselves and at times it’s not particularly pleasant to read. More on that in a moment. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The good parts of Remender’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny</span> are good. The problem is that the book isn’t just made of good parts. The good parts are, roughly, the parts dealing with Kang and the Apocalypse Twins, and the bad parts are those dealing with the Red Skull and what eventually becomes <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Axis. </span>Split down the middle you find the character work. Some of the interpersonal work is <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">very</span> good. Some of it is so bad it broke the internet when it was published. Will we be exploring the issues involved? Only in the most abstract. After almost ten years the dated discourse on prejudice seems even more dated, even as the shape of the controversy makes a hell of a lot more sense.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXlgE-vKD-1b7NE5RcNIjD8xDIHqVaWTw3bSdKiLdY65r_Gx3BDs44gqjd4-m78Hrs8LSo9f8CEgqYmvsbUkf_8IsaoduSxvULdvqUpGcVz4e1TxHykZ07QAWKoG_k0Mp0UfV/s1620/0A7A2B4A-3A35-4E85-B297-2806C1708151.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny Avengers" border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1049" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXlgE-vKD-1b7NE5RcNIjD8xDIHqVaWTw3bSdKiLdY65r_Gx3BDs44gqjd4-m78Hrs8LSo9f8CEgqYmvsbUkf_8IsaoduSxvULdvqUpGcVz4e1TxHykZ07QAWKoG_k0Mp0UfV/w414-h640/0A7A2B4A-3A35-4E85-B297-2806C1708151.jpeg" title="Thor defends Logan" width="414" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Let’s talk about the good before the bad. Will we be getting to the bad? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">It will be mentioned in passing . . . </span>What I like about the series, unambiguously, is the way it works hard to dovetail the histories of the two franchises. I recognize some older heads might take umbrage to liberties here. If you’re one to glance askance at recent retcons you will probably roll your eyes mightily at the news that Kang and Apocalypse, with his Clan Akkaba, have been at war for a very long time. But it makes perfect sense, takes nothing away from what is known while building on what we have already seen. Particularly 1996’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rise of Apocalypse</span> miniseries that already tied En Sabah Nur to the reign of Pharaoh Rama Tut. The good Pharaoh was one of Kang’s early identities, but <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">just</span> one, and oh boy are there a few. The links had been there all along. It’s an additive development that introduces a more organic connection between the two teams. Immortals and time travelers are natural enemies, everyone knows that. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(If you read <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Young Avengers</span> you’ll learn even more about the connections between Kang’s identities and the Scarlet Witch’s family, and if you read <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Young Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, </span>you’ll learn about how the aforementioned Dr. Doom was the mastermind behind the aforementioned House of M. Sort of. It’s complicated. You should probably just read <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Young Avengers, </span>it’s pretty good even if it doesn’t have Rogue. Pobody’s nerfect!)</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This is all part of a long chain of events leading back to 1963’s’ <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Fantastic Four</span> #19, the first appearance of Rama Tut during the Fantastic Four’s first journey to ancient Egypt. That one adventure has been elaborated and expanded by later developments involving Kang, Dr. Strange, the West Coast Avengers, Moon Knight, an alternate Fantastic Four, our Fantastic Four (again), apparently according to the Wiki at some point Killpower (sans Motormouth??? That’s even a thing?) . . . a whole lot of people, in other words, have traveled back in time to one specific moment in our ancient history. Which just happens to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">also</span> be the precise moment En Sabah Nur first manifests his mutant abilities. Weird coincidence, I know! The idea that all these subsequent iterations across fifty years are still, at heart, crossover tie-ins to one issue of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Fantastic Four</span> that was published during the Kennedy administration, well - that’s my favorite part of the whole enterprise. A discourse community spread across half a century dedicated to riffing mountains out of seeming molehills, all playing a game of one-upmanship to see who can fit the most angels on the head of a pin. My people, whether I like it or not. Whether <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">they </span>like it or not. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another development I enjoyed was the marriage between the Wasp and Havok. It made a lot of sense, honestly - he’s just her type, a blonde himbo with great power who’s also <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">juuuust</span> a little bit less capable than she is. Havok gets points from me simply for not being his brother. They even have a kid together, the disappearance of whom remains a dangling plotline from the series that I do not believe has yet been pulled. But could be at any time! One imagines there are multiple parties who might be interested in the fruit of a union between the Summers clan and the extended family of Henry Pym. Not like both families don’t have enemies obsessed with genealogy and inheritance. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Just saying,</span> don’t come to me crying when you get your wig permanently flipped down the road - it’s all fun and games until Ultron shows up on Krakoa calling Jean Grey his auntie. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Perhaps Jonathan Hickman remembers that Ultron and the Phalanx once had a very successful and mutually advantageous partnership. Seems like the kind of thing he might have made a Post-It note about, you know, for his graphs. See, it’s not like I don’t <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">understand</span> Hickman. On the contrary, I think I understand very well the way he thinks. He’s Grant Morrison if Grant Morrison had constructed an eccentric mystical philosophy not out of the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Illuminatus!</span> trilogy but the Chilton Auto Repair Manual for a 2004 Chevy Aveo. I see the thought process but the results he kicks out are unerringly pessimistic in a way that makes me thankful I never use Reddit for anything but video game tips. Anyway, as I write this Hickman has just announced he is stepping away from writing any of the X-Men books he relaunched, ostensibly because Marvel and his fellow creators were reluctant to move on from the first part of the initial outline of his run. (The fact that he finds his creator owned work more fulfilling probably plays a role as well.) I think we can reasonably infer from the available evidence that the reason he left was in fact the editors’ refusal to allow him to use Ultron, because they said the evil robot was <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“too scary.” </span>Perhaps we can get a rumor site to run with that.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPE1mh2-cwfdULXDzFTtNRl6BvjLJIIQDXWH0agfY1Q1wwHAUOi8hGl4VTLQgBD8-W2TGTtcpN06d3IxgmlJVVODbPbwfUncgo_IiX0dkHrpID9xwArQc7J6arNRA0EmTslFFl/s1620/0D57C5F5-9C3B-4E43-9E70-99B6A038A26C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny Avengers" border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1050" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPE1mh2-cwfdULXDzFTtNRl6BvjLJIIQDXWH0agfY1Q1wwHAUOi8hGl4VTLQgBD8-W2TGTtcpN06d3IxgmlJVVODbPbwfUncgo_IiX0dkHrpID9xwArQc7J6arNRA0EmTslFFl/w414-h640/0D57C5F5-9C3B-4E43-9E70-99B6A038A26C.jpeg" title="Bawling out Logan" width="414" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The third connection between franchises - after the rivalry of Apocalypse and Kang and the Summers / van Dyne marriage - involved integrating Rogue directly into the ongoing soap opera of the Avengers, the saga of which Remender picked up from the later Bendis era and did his best to nurse in Hickman’s dereliction. Rogue now has more in the way of a personal stake in the lives of Wonder Man, the Scarlet Witch, and the Wasp - to say nothing of Carol Danvers - than to all but a handful of X-Men. Rogue had already been absent from the main stream of the mutant plot for years by the time she joined the Avengers, set off to the side in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Legacy</span>. Although she wasn’t absent from the X-Books during her tenure with the Avengers neither was she a driving force. There are whole generations of X-Men she barely knows, and as I’ve continuously alluded, her sitting at an angle to the teams’ traditional leadership structure is a mostly unacknowledged sore thumb in the status quo. Think about the fact that she’s a non-entity on Krakoa and absent from leadership despite having just >checks notes< led the Avengers for a couple years and saved the world multiple times, most recently as of Hickman’s launch during 2018’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">No Surrender</span> crossover. That’s also where she straight-up murders Corvus Glaive, puts her fist through his chest on-panel. Number one guy of none other than Thanos himself! You’d think that would at least give people <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">pause </span>prior to dismissing her from consideration for leadership. But she’s busy being married. Ahem.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They made a great job in the years following <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">House of M</span> of showing precisely the ways in which the character was misused by her team and underutilized by the company. Her joining the Avengers was an overdue development. It certainly makes more sense in a vacuum than Wolverine. Her problem with the X-Men is that she has no patience for the team’s traditional management philosophy, top heavy and riven by ideology. When first offered a leadership role in 2000 - during the early days of Claremont II - her first reaction was to demur. Power holds no appeal. She talks to Xavier as an equal and feels no qualms at holding him to account when he falls short, isn’t afraid of Apocalypse, dismisses Mystique entirely. Very little connection to any Summers or Grey family drama - Rogue didn’t even meet Jean Grey until she’d been an X-Man for half a decade. Her and Kitty Pryde hated each other from the moment the former joined the team, despite their later ostensible civility (more on that, as you can imagine, later). Her great contribution to mutant liberation doctrine was the golden insight that Magneto really just needed to shut up and look pretty. Maybe he should smile more? Among the X-Men she appears at times the sole principled anarchist in a house split down the middle between frustrated liberals and pious tankies.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, however, she’s had Wonder Man living inside her head for a year, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">ergo</span> has been inserted into a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">de facto</span> love triangle - the obstacle between him and the Scarlet Witch, who if you recall, already got on really well with Rogue. Also on that tip, her relationship with Magneto created natural antagonism with his once and former children - I know that’s been changed, but seems too much a load-bearing pillar to remain permanently altered. (Ditto for Franklin Richard not being a mutant. There are always good reasons in the moment, but in five or ten years those reasons will no longer be applicable. Some people liked Guy Gardner as a Vuldarian. When the Cinematic Universe needs reasons to tie the X-Men to the Fantastic Four and the Avengers those connections will return very quickly.) She led the team against Henry Pym and Ultron at their worst. Part of the Wasp’s arc, from the beginning of the first volume of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> to the end of the third, was more or less her learning to trust not just the other X-Men but Rogue, specifically. Once Janet does she comes to recognize Rogue as one of the team’s best leaders. They become buddies. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Buddies. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To top it all off, of course, there’s her intimate connection to one of the single most traumatic events in the team’s history, a chain of events that began with the truly awful <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers</span> #200 and was only ever resolved after Kurt Busiek reintegrated Carol to the team at the turn of the century. Rogue wasn’t the reason Ms. Marvel left the Avengers but she <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">was</span> the reason Ms. Marvel retired as an Earth-based superhero for twenty years.</p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWm9zf517BABp2kn-Q9Y0nuazDS6jq6Vqy9m1RDUZLdt0TrYvVR5SeE5xDnqY9CVTFBgDnqYzmDGxhCx6SvzyhFGy8Dg_PLNCeWWv98FcW9Q65vCvSWsdY7DiKPKZTF2FKRc2x/s2048/FDCB57D6-7B02-45FB-AACA-E8AB536C06DA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny Avengers" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1325" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWm9zf517BABp2kn-Q9Y0nuazDS6jq6Vqy9m1RDUZLdt0TrYvVR5SeE5xDnqY9CVTFBgDnqYzmDGxhCx6SvzyhFGy8Dg_PLNCeWWv98FcW9Q65vCvSWsdY7DiKPKZTF2FKRc2x/w414-h640/FDCB57D6-7B02-45FB-AACA-E8AB536C06DA.jpeg" title="Rogue vs Janet" width="414" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As for the bad . . . well. There were as I mentioned two distinct plots running through the series: one of those plots involved Kang and the progeny of Apocalypse dueling through history and across alternate futures, features the Celestials destroying the planet, as well as a gruesome on-panel death for Rogue. (Don’t worry, she gets better.) It’s a twisty-turny time travel epic whose plot is about undoing itself, a staple of both franchises, albeit in vastly different ways. One team is all about fighting Kang and one team is all about fighting to prevent nightmarish alternate futures, so the story of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> becomes Kang fighting to undo a nightmarish alternate future. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">QED.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The other plot featured the aforementioned Red Skull stealing Charles Xavier’s telepathy. In the first place - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">oh, damn,</span> that sounds like a windup. Hah. I guess it is. The Red Skull who appears here isn’t actually <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">the</span> Red Skull, but yet <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">another</span> version, this one a clone of the original who wakes up in 2012 straight from 1945. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Siiiiiiiiggggghhhhhh.</span> Why go with a new variant of a character who already has a few imposters running around? You’re just adding paragraphs to the Wiki. The real Red Skull was last seen as a disembodied spirit at the end of Ed Brubaker’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Captain America </span>run, if I recall the kind of metaphysical dead-not-dead from which any writer worth his salt should be able to weave a yarn of grand return. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">But nope, we’re doing the clone.</span> Not like the fact that he was a clone was ever really relevant, either. Later on Sin starts hanging out with the clone of her old man, basically more or less going along with the whole thing. One assumes there isn’t reason for her to be attached to any particular iteration over another, can’t imagine a lot of cozy in-jokes in the Schmidt household. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But that’s a small matter, ultimately, as the clone factor is only briefly relevant - a bit of hash for the cataloguers. More pressing is the degree to which the book is devoted to exploring issues of prejudice and discrimination. And, before we get to the bad, it’s worth mentioning that it’s not <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">entirely</span> bad, and the book’s opening arc is probably the best treatment of the theme in the whole series. The Red Skull shows up with Xavier’s brain (or at least the telepathy parts) and starts a race riot in the middle of the city with a few ugly words. Was it supposed to read as “over the top” in context? We’ve been on the other side of the looking glass for so long that the Skull’s incitements have become regular features of our political landscape. Remender gets it right in that the mechanics of demagoguery are every bit as simple as what we see on the page. Simpler, even. In reality the Skull wouldn’t have needed Xavier’s telepathy to gin up a riot against a hated minority, just Facebook. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s when the book stops to think too hard that it gets into trouble. Alex Summers is situated as the central figure in this argument, a mutant intimately connected to and yet also critically distant from the traditional X-Men hierarchy. He’d spent a good part of the last decade in space, missing out on much of the Utopia period by dint of spending a season in the cosmic end of the pool. In reality these are precisely the reasons why Havok turned out to be a terrible choice to lead this very public team of Avengers. He is indeed a privileged mutant, able to pass completely for baseline human, and possessing that rarest of rare attributes among X-Men - not just a job but an actual career. He’s an archaeologist! He has an advanced degree and in many respects his day job is better and more interesting than being a superhero. Not the usual X-Men dilemma.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlzZ5zK17h3Nk-B-n46F7SaEOdID1qPdg7n-g0teWTkDYSxn5L9o1KChRw70fDT-iqVv0TqKi138xcK_brRWdPV9ylgWR3hiG7tUndzdaVC9gO5zXnFC_Yh4H9YyA6_MKrnfG/s2048/BFA2F2C7-0622-489A-A155-253FFCCE1C86.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny Avengers Annual" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1332" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlzZ5zK17h3Nk-B-n46F7SaEOdID1qPdg7n-g0teWTkDYSxn5L9o1KChRw70fDT-iqVv0TqKi138xcK_brRWdPV9ylgWR3hiG7tUndzdaVC9gO5zXnFC_Yh4H9YyA6_MKrnfG/w416-h640/BFA2F2C7-0622-489A-A155-253FFCCE1C86.jpeg" title="Rogue & Janet" width="416" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In our real world, the prevalence of relatively privileged specimens in leadership positions at civil rights organizations warps the mission. Respectability politics come into play. All that is actually a great setup for a solo book: mutant who (perhaps selfishly?) turns his back on the internecine drama of that community - and much of that struggle - to return to his awesome day job as globe-trotting archeologist across the Marvel Universe. Doesn’t that sound <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">interesting?</span> Rogue clearly isn’t the only character to be hurt by the X-Men books’ long-standing inability to develop individual characters. It’s like they don’t even exist anymore outside their position on teams. Fans like it that way? Seems terribly sad. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Say what you will about the Avengers, but from the very beginning with Captain America the book has been designed to develop and rehabilitate established characters for further use. It doesn’t always work and can fail spectacularly, as during Bob Harras’ tenure as writer, which “developed” Sersi, Crystal, and the Black Knight so well they were radioactive for a solid decade. (He somehow managed to ruin the Avengers while also simultaneously running the X-Men into a ditch. Impressive.) But this is one aspect of the franchise history that both Bendis and Hickman used well. Both writers introduced pet favorites onto the team who found success as a direct result of getting the call. Remember when Luke Cage and Wolverine seemed terribly off-model for the Avengers? Now they’re mainstays. (Spider-Man and Spider Woman on the contrary had already spent time alongside if not with the team so they didn’t seem that odd to me. Spider-Man had been a reserve Avenger since 1991.) Likewise, during the same period that Rogue served on the Unity Squad Sunspot was also an Avenger for almost a decade, Cannonball for a while with him. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(Shang-Chi joined as well during Hickman’s term but I remain convinced he was a poorer fit than any of these other unlikely additions, at least to judge by how he was used in his first years as an Avenger. I arrive at this judgement from observing that writers started giving him hokey hi-tech gimmicks almost immediately upon him joining. These tech workarounds emphasized in a perhaps unintentional way that the writers may themselves have not understood why he was on the team.)</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. Captain America picks Alex to lead the team based on the fact that he’s a handsome white guy who has led before and already has media training, dating from his tenure on X-Factor in the early 90s. Although it doesn’t really come up in the course of Remender’s run, it’s important in that Havok’s incarnation of X-Factor is one of only a small handful of mutant teams to have ever presented any substantial public face, which they maintained even down to the Avengers-esque press conferences. The X-Men might have done better all along if Chuck had had the foresight to hire a press agent. That’s a big part of Cap’s thinking in putting Havok front and center, in any event.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This worked about as well as it ever has in the real world, which is variable depending on how large a handicap you give someone who is manifestly bad at all aspects of his job. Seriously: name a team Alex Summers has headed which hasn’t shaken apart in weird ways. He’s led a few! The Unity Squad avoids this fate because Rogue is there to take over when he, uh, turns evil, and she proves to be a better leader than Alex (in Volume 3) to such a wide degree that the previous tenure really stands out as the last gasp of a mediocre reflexive patriarchy. (In more ways than one.) And that’s even adjusting for the fact that she’s also terrible with the media. She’s still not quite as bad at talking to reporters as Alex, and she murders a man on camera during her first press conference.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9zRS1WZd_OsSH-3tubT6_dMVt4Kt-B7kMMWNUHEj3-y5eVKtNN96tU_0MDR_E9RoIWGe5NrWo6oRKERuB_hAFTNi10V-4Cd9U-TzjrL60TWv5cYxg7_Qrt3feW2KWljat9a5i/s2048/87BD2A3D-214C-4502-89B2-40D57874458F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny Avengers" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1342" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9zRS1WZd_OsSH-3tubT6_dMVt4Kt-B7kMMWNUHEj3-y5eVKtNN96tU_0MDR_E9RoIWGe5NrWo6oRKERuB_hAFTNi10V-4Cd9U-TzjrL60TWv5cYxg7_Qrt3feW2KWljat9a5i/w420-h640/87BD2A3D-214C-4502-89B2-40D57874458F.jpeg" title="Wanda & Cap" width="420" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To wit: there is a notorious sequence near the beginning of the run where Havok addresses the media, during which commences a brief exchange on the subject of prejudice. This climaxes with Alex making a speech where he takes off his mask and appeals to the commonality of human and mutant to lower the temperature in a discussion of grievances. At which point, if you recall correctly, the internet exploded in the general direction of the writer, for reasons which should by now seem very familiar. (This was issue #5 of the first volume, early 2013.) One of the most privileged mutants in Marvel’s stable was trying to steer the conversation away from thorny conflict and towards a peaceful resolution that ended in some kind of agreement on amorphous common principles. Principles which can often seem commendable in a vacuum but which in context become rudimentary and condescending. Refocusing an argument away from specific controversy to general commonality may occasionally defuse tempers in the short term but is much more likely to further entrench misunderstanding, representing enforced amity used as a tool of privilege to muffle dissent. I’m simplifying immensely. What did he actually say? </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then a reporter pops up, “Well . . . If you don’t want to called ‘<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">mutant,’</span> what <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">should</span> we call you?” At which point Alex Summers, handsome blonde All-American Alex drawn with the utmost charm by Olivier Coipel and Mark Morales, cocks his head a little bit and smiles, wryly . . . <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">oh yeah, he’s got this one. Batter up, pitch, swing - </span>“How about Alex?” <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Home run. It’s Miller time.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What is interesting in hindsight is the degree to which Alex’s good-hearted but also resolutely clueless inability to engage with any but the most superficial reading of an ideological rift presents a perfect example of this manner of subtle derailment, familiar from a decade of intensifying discourse on these subjects in our own world. The problem in this formulation becomes the conflict that results from the problem and not the problem itself. The only people walking away content from that exchange are people whose goal was not fixing the problem but smoothing the disagreement. Usually just makes things worse. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No one gets the assignment of a huge new launch coming out of one of the company’s biggest-ever crossovers thinking, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“oh boy, time to get yelled at by people online!” </span>A common dilemma and a very familiar pattern. The arguments in this comic and around this comic both follow that pattern pretty well. An initial attempt at good faith discourse is marred by pitfalls as the conditionality of that good faith itself is questioned, fairly or no. A defensive crouch sneaks into the discourse partway through the series. Ideological conversations become more deliberate and effortful. There are long passages which read less like real conversations than and more like balanced and researched (if hardly unbiased) polemics. A few issues later (issue #9) a heated conversation between Rogue and Wanda unfolds thusly:</p>
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</div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rogue: He’s asking people to forget their history - to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">assimilate!</span> </p></div></div><div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p></div></div><div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Wanda: What history? Assimilate into <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">what?</span></p></div></div><div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p></div></div><div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rogue: “Normal” human culture. </p></div></div><div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p></div></div><div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Wanda: As opposed to what, normal mutant culture? </p></div></div></blockquote><div><div>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yadda yadda yadda, another page later they are still talking and we have clearly entered the “shower conversations with straw men” segment of the program. Rogue ends the conversation yelling, </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Points are made? In fairness it probably isn’t to any writer’s strengths to have to deal with massive negative blowback to what was, in the context of the story, a relatively minor thematic sidebar. But therein lies the rub - even if it doesn’t take up much of the story’s running time, a great deal of how people find themselves reflected in these stories depends on just such minor sidebars. People form intense personal connections to different aspects of the core premise of the X-Men, an emotional spectrum that simply doesn’t exist for the Avengers. That’s one reason why those particular arguments rarely produce winners. Rogue doesn’t always come out the best from these arguments and is often portrayed as headstrong (which she certainly is) beyond the point of reason, with vision occluded by trauma and grief. Is she being used as a straw woman to reiterate one side of fraught arguments in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">just</span> such a way as to allow the writer to explain himself in light of then-recent online discussions? That’s why Campbell’s soup is mmmm-mmmm good.</p></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYnz-vskIBf9wYbnyB5Ed-RRLVtUdl8cf3J9x3hNs4UCFrOT85zBDgXYcZ6ax6IM5daldsDIEeji1cYhi5mAEeTyXBdI4TDnTnVnn4KRSuQCUneLZav4UDYaZuVXJnhFhpwaW_/s2048/389336B6-5272-4EE7-9364-7BDB8D91262D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny Avengers" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1329" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYnz-vskIBf9wYbnyB5Ed-RRLVtUdl8cf3J9x3hNs4UCFrOT85zBDgXYcZ6ax6IM5daldsDIEeji1cYhi5mAEeTyXBdI4TDnTnVnn4KRSuQCUneLZav4UDYaZuVXJnhFhpwaW_/w416-h640/389336B6-5272-4EE7-9364-7BDB8D91262D.jpeg" title="Oh, Alex" width="416" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">As I spent a lot of time (probably an <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">otiose</span> amount of time) discussing previously, as awkward as they may be these are still important conversations about the world of the kind that are supposed to take place in X-Men comic books, either explicitly or allegorically. Worth noting again that even Claremont struggled when his series moved past dealing in metaphors and attempted frank discourse on matters of actual social gravity. Everyone remembers Kitty saying the “N”-word, after all, a family favorite from way back. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">God Loves Man Kills</span> is a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">bit</span> turgid if we’re being honest with ourselves. The X-Men can be heavy-handed, which is occasionally a drag and sometimes even (as in the examples at hand) tone-deaf and aggravating, but those sensations are themselves part and parcel of the franchise. What I’m saying is, don’t linger too long on these sections and you won’t be disappointed when <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> fails to resolve the racial tensions of a lonely nation. In this respect it’s a representative artifact of the manner in which the national discourse around these thorny topics was beginning to cohere - or, perhaps better to say, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">failing</span> to cohere - in the early evening of the Age of Obama. The specific individuals chosen to represent those arguments and institutions utterly failed to rise to the gravity of the moment and we still live in the rubble of the consequences. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">The book does mount an argument, unwitting or no, as to why these kinds of imbroglio rarely produce satisfying results. In real life terrible arguments stemming from deep divisions don’t also culminate in long adventures where people have to learn to live as a team in order to survive. The Avengers and the X-Men start getting along better because they <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">have</span> to do the work of seeing the world through each other’s eyes and learning to communicate in order to save that world. People in small groups who have to cooperate for immediate survival usually find ways to resolve differences. Absolutely shocking revelation, I am aware. Sadly the solution doesn’t always scale, as recent events in our own world may attest. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Which brings us to the final stretch of the series, after the far more gratifying Apocalypse / Kang thread has wrapped. Yes, I speak of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">AXIS</span>. Do you remember <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">AXIS? </span>This is what it was all leading towards. And, you know, if we’re being frank, a big reason this series hasn’t lingered in the public consciousness like other runs of comparable quality is that it climaxes in a giant wet fart of a crossover that somehow reads as rushed despite two years’ buildup. The cookie, sometimes that is how she crumbles. </p>
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</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Whenever the subject comes up, Marvel swears the only reason it does so many crossovers is that people continue to buy them. Check out any of Axel Alonso’s Q&As or Tom Brevoort’s Tumblr, and there are many variations of the same complaint: Too many events! To which Marvel replies: If you don’t buy them, we’ll stop making them. So the phrase “event fatigue” gets thrown around by long-term fans sick of the constant hype machine, but it really doesn’t mean anything, because new events always sell like gangbusters. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Someone’s</span> buying them. </p></div></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VH0IGDWTY_sW9rfCzY9dbBCElHOQ4vR2jp4noHo7LLacchh45_JOLD__ZBZ8l97PxbOZj7UNNXFvuj0kEPvb1nNGzcOgdH7f7o5nWxOYj4cxVin3SKioQu_3irT0CXEGQeba/s2048/BA63D695-1A61-4557-8F3C-45FB16BD52C6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A Long Conversation" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VH0IGDWTY_sW9rfCzY9dbBCElHOQ4vR2jp4noHo7LLacchh45_JOLD__ZBZ8l97PxbOZj7UNNXFvuj0kEPvb1nNGzcOgdH7f7o5nWxOYj4cxVin3SKioQu_3irT0CXEGQeba/w640-h480/BA63D695-1A61-4557-8F3C-45FB16BD52C6.png" title="Uncanny Avengers #9" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Event season is no longer limited to the summer. Event season is now every season. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Original Sin</span> preceded <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1-#2 </span>(Marvel), and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Axis</span> itself will be supplanted by the conclusion of “Time Runs Out” and a new <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> in the spring. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> will last the summer, and at some point soon there will surely be an announcement of what the post-<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> fall 2015 crossover will be. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose . . .</span></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Axis</span> at least has the virtue of emerging as the organic conclusion to two years’ worth of ongoing story in one of Marvel’s flagship books, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span>. The events of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Axis</span> have been telegraphed since almost the first issue of that series: The Red Skull, having stolen the psychic power from Charles Xavier’s corpse, has somehow managed to transform into a new incarnation of Onslaught, surely <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">everyone’s </span>favorite ’90s event villain.</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That this was all Magneto’s fault, and that the birth of Red Onslaught was the direct result of Magneto committing the completely understandable “mistake” of crushing a Nazi to death under a giant rock, is a nice touch. The story tries to throw a bit of shade at Magneto for murdering the Skull in cold blood, but really, implying a Holocaust survivor isn’t justified in killing the Red Skull is an indefensible supposition.</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All of the themes writer Rick Remender has woven together over the course of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny</span>’s run are here: humans and mutants cooperating against anti-mutant hysteria, the necessity of forgiveness, and the persistence of memory. The problem is, now that the main event has arrived, the story itself chooses a terrible moment to run out of gas. Would this story have been better if it had been “just” a focused mini-event restricted to the pages of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span>? We will never know.</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The “hook” of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Axis</span>, above and beyond being the climax to Remender’s run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny</span>, is that with the heroes out of commission, it falls to the villains to save the day. That’s not a bad hook on which to hang a story, all things considered—and it works here because the Red Skull is one of only a handful of characters Dr. Doom, Loki, Magneto, and even Carnage might put their differences aside to throw down against. If the solicits are to be believed, at some point in the story the world is turned upside down (on its <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">axis</span>, one might say), and the villains really do become heroes. (Rumors seem to indicate Sabretooth will be permanently—or “permanently”—changed enough to join the post-<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Axis</span> lineup of the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span>.)</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlXS6bnHkxFcO2HygoW8sbsLKpOU98yUw7dKKv7P4NbDP7oy0Re9-upyYUWvLAUbnX4_sKi6zNBLiVBlZJvFmk8XKXd6eYF-HZergBHkaSNvarXCeUplHPG-qxvhzyOOSx5wI5/s1494/EABB226A-B97E-4A6F-A416-7715A5022833.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Axis 3" border="0" data-original-height="1494" data-original-width="979" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlXS6bnHkxFcO2HygoW8sbsLKpOU98yUw7dKKv7P4NbDP7oy0Re9-upyYUWvLAUbnX4_sKi6zNBLiVBlZJvFmk8XKXd6eYF-HZergBHkaSNvarXCeUplHPG-qxvhzyOOSx5wI5/w420-h640/EABB226A-B97E-4A6F-A416-7715A5022833.jpeg" title="Cover" width="420" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">That the series is already one-quarter over and we still haven’t gotten to the hook is a problem. So far we’ve seen the Red Onslaught just about murdering the heroes, Magneto gathering a team of the world’s most powerful villains, and not much else. Remender suffers at times for being a deliberate plotter, but the first two issues of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Axis</span> read as if Jonathan Hickman took a pass at the scripts to cut down on the amount of interesting events per issue. </div></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">It doesn’t help that the Red Onslaught’s great plan amounts to stealing some of Tony Stark’s old blueprints to make adamantium-coated hero-killer Sentinels. (Tony made a lot of really good decisions during the Civil War.) The story reminds us that Tony doesn’t remember writing the plans because his brain got rebooted during “Dark Reign,” which doesn’t do a lot to ameliorate the fact that he should </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">still </span><span style="text-align: center;">have known that designing special super-Sentinels has </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">never, ever </span><span style="text-align: center;">gone right for </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">anyone</span><span style="text-align: center;"> in the history of comics. And super-Sentinels remain as interesting an antagonist as they’ve ever been, which is not a lot.</span></div></span></span></blockquote><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">[2021 Tegan: Worth pointing out here that the reason Magneto needs to gather villains in the first place is that, because these Sentinels were designed during the Civil War by Tony Stark, they’re only programmed to fight </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;">superheroes.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> Hence, they are helpless against super-villains. That’s the logic. The Sentinels weren’t programmed to fight villains. That’s the plot. I’m sorry.]</span> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Fans of the original Onslaught</span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">saga (God bless them) will find a lot to like here, from the callback to the original story’s use of Sentinels as cannon fodder through to Adam Kubert’s dependable art (he drew the original Onslaught as well). Marvel is getting smart about these events and shipping them in weekly or near-weekly frequency, which is good, because this would be a pretty awful read month-to-month. Retailers will already have ordered the first few issues before they even know if the story is any good, even after having moved the order cut-off date. Good business model.</span></div></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">So how will it all end? Hopefully better than </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Original Sin</span><span style="text-align: center;"> (which, if we’re keeping track, ended exactly the way everyone knew it would from pretty much the first page). If this writer sounds cynical about the never-ending cavalcade of events, please forgive. A good event showcases a particular kind of widescreen storytelling superhero comics can do that very few other mediums even approach, although Marvel is currently giving it a try themselves in the world of film. Good events are exciting, and even mediocre events can be entertaining. Coming so hot on the heels of </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Original Sin</span><span style="text-align: center;">, however, and with the juggernaut of a new </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Secret Wars </span><span style="text-align: center;">breathing down its neck, </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Axis</span><span style="text-align: center;"> needed to be a lot more than this to read as anything more than Marvel hitting their quarterly sales target.</span></div></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">I have a terrible memory for my own writing, and have therefore come to value stumbling across good bits. “Cut down on the amount of interesting events per issue” made me laugh, I must admit - it’s like the me of 2014 knew just what points to make for the me of 2021. If that isn’t consistency I don’t know what is. </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">So - yeah. There were two stories in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">AXIS,</span> neither of them were that strong, and together the whole thing is just kind of a mess. One of them involves the Red Skull becoming Onslaught because apparently it was a bad thing for Magneto to kill him. In 2021 such an assertion is plain silly. In this day and age Captain America himself would probably grab the flamethrower to incinerate the body, because <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">even in the context of the Marvel Universe itself</span> the Red Skull’s ability to come back from literal death is beyond parody. He’s always back. He has a knack for it, even keeps a weird little freak hustling pretty much 24/7 to ensure the process goes as smoothly as possible. (Arnim Zola, if you’re keeping track at home.) Plus, I mean. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">He builds a concentration camp on the ashes of Genosha.</span> By all means kill the Red Skull. Go crazy, enjoy yourself. Chances are very good you’ll get another opportunity before long.</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ7YsZeeR1jEdlfEK1mjDL19SnldBTQh9wyNbm01iEiskSqS9PeuJMvo4Mx2_MO28bN9E3_dI06Cv6RvfrZKYh6fgzKOoA6bVNMotMMKXyt6_XniGFOqAAq0Off4TJN1VIJgpB/s2048/9EFDC2BF-4C6C-4D32-AB8B-B7FAB8D13727.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny Avengers" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1325" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ7YsZeeR1jEdlfEK1mjDL19SnldBTQh9wyNbm01iEiskSqS9PeuJMvo4Mx2_MO28bN9E3_dI06Cv6RvfrZKYh6fgzKOoA6bVNMotMMKXyt6_XniGFOqAAq0Off4TJN1VIJgpB/w414-h640/9EFDC2BF-4C6C-4D32-AB8B-B7FAB8D13727.jpeg" title="Magneto vs the Red Skull" width="414" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The two halves of the story seem more ill-fitted in hindsight. Spending so much time on real horrors with close counterparts in our world, a world in which the evils of prejudice and hatred often seems intractable and ineradicable, really sits ill at ease with the idea of good and evil being concrete attributes which can be switched on and off like a light switch by a sorcerer. Which is what happens halfway through <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Axis.</span> Suddenly the story that was about the Red Onslaught and genocide is about Carnage having a face turn. There’s a high-concept Silver Age feel to that gimmick, and while I’m not saying there’s no place for the occasional high-concept Silver Age gimmick - heaven forfend! - perhaps that place was not the climax to a two year saga of pride, bigotry, and mass murder. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Worth mentioning, before moving on, that Remender’s idea of a heel turn for the X-Men involves the team calling a meeting where they announce they’re all on the same page with Apocalypse and are ready to start playing offense against the human race. Fun sequence, that. Wonder if it ever comes up again. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. The first volume of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> was an old-school jam in an era of the new. The second volume is only five issues long and immediately precedes <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span>. It’s not a lead-in, its devoted to establishing the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver’s new origin and it features the High Evolutionary. There’s no acknowledgement of the crossover other than a tiny <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> logo on the very last page to indicate Remender’s time with these characters had come to an end. These comics were always going to be retconned, and perhaps by the time you read this they will have been. It’s not a bad story, in any event, featuring good work from the ever-reliable Acuna and an Avengers team that exists nowhere else, led by Rogue and featuring the Sam Wilson Captain America and the Vision alongside a temporarily good Sabretooth. The team that comes out the other side of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> bears little resemblance to Remender’s, as we shall see, although Rogue’s and Wanda’s character arcs do stay consistent between multiple volumes, as we shall also see. That’s what we’re here for, after all, and where we can look to wrap it up. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We shall conclude with the observation that Remender holds the distinction of having written the worst line of dialogue ever spoken by Rogue. At the very beginning of the series, issue #2. The occasion for this line was Rogue, held captive by the Red Skull and his cannon fodder mutant animal people S-Men, escaping from her bonds. (The Red Skull’s cannon fodder mutant animal people S-Men are used this one time and never mentioned again, so far as I know), All well and good. The escape was effected by means of a contrivance involving spitting water out of a cup onto a water elemental, a bit of straightjacket dexterity accompanied by the line:</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Friends, life is suffering. This is <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">known</span>. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This line has haunted me for almost a decade. As the years passed and I forgot much else of this book I still remembered that line, planted like a festering half-popped carbuncle on the ass of my mind. Is that something people would <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">say? </span>Speak those words out loud - does that conglomeration of syllables roll off the tongue or does it trip thuddeningly? Positively Dreiserian in its commitment to describing a hated phenomenon with great precision and a minimum of art. Perhaps people actually do such things, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">precisely</span> - who knows? It is a large world, filled with depravity. Would anyone ever say that baldly explanatory phrase - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“kinky bondage drinking games?”</span> Perhaps this is simply down to the difficulty of conveying the chimera of memory through the meager medium of language. The scene is such that honestly . . . well, I don’t know why drinking from a paper cup without hands is a rare skill, especially as in this instance it involves simply splashing herself with water. Is it? Do you absolutely <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">need</span> to have sex with Gambit to unlearn our parochial flatscan vanilla water drinking habits? Any skill transferred by such means deserves no perpetuation. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">This place is not a place of honor . . . no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4gtKflqOYi7tndX9U2y0fLjYozoNYPvSnpE6dHzGB4pygRfoa-ukpk2UAxBzImCwIzsVegy9Us38v8VgIfvfX1BriwiSnH0ouaZ1GWzy6guUj3NHrgEYJ-4DnQxbpvWfplbmB/s2048/A59ECAFB-1011-4230-B194-4F340E12DFE6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Axis" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1329" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4gtKflqOYi7tndX9U2y0fLjYozoNYPvSnpE6dHzGB4pygRfoa-ukpk2UAxBzImCwIzsVegy9Us38v8VgIfvfX1BriwiSnH0ouaZ1GWzy6guUj3NHrgEYJ-4DnQxbpvWfplbmB/w416-h640/A59ECAFB-1011-4230-B194-4F340E12DFE6.jpeg" title="“Evil” X-Men" width="416" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The first volume of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> was a deeply imperfect book that nevertheless accomplished many important things. In wonkish terms of continuity and lore it may prove more significant yet, given a great deal of road is laid down here that has yet been barely driven. The nature of the book is such that although we speak of it in general terms as being Remender’s story, along with his artists, it’s probable that as much as a little or a lot of the plot and character beats were hashed out in committee. We can’t know, but this was a high profile launch coming out of an enormous crossover. That’s how this world works. I say that neither to castigate nor to exculpate, but to qualify the judgment that this isn’t Remender’s best. Not his worst, either! Thankfully, the wince-inducing crass humor that occasionally mars his work is <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">mostly</span> absent, largely shunted off to a skippable satirical Annual featuring the team crossing swords with Mojo. He’s good at plot-heavy page-turners with strong character beats - as “meat & potatoes” as it gets, for mainstream superhero books. As such this book is best when the pace is fastest and the concept the highest. When it stops to sit around and mull <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> gets lost in its own head. It fails to realize until the end that the real antagonist all along has been Alex Summers’ ascendant mediocrity, and that nothing was ever going to get better without a change of management. </p><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(“Skippable Mojo story” is a redundancy, I know.) </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That change of management would soon arrive. After the brief second volume, the third volume of the series that arrives on the heels of the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> arrives with Rogue firmly at the helm of a new and very different team. The first year of that book coincides precisely with one of the worst years in the company’s history, an <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">annus horribilis</span> that saw Rogue’s unlikely team of Avengers frogmarched through four of the company’s worst-ever crossovers<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> - Inhumans vs X-Men, Standoff!, Civil War II, </span>and, yes, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Empire</span>. It is a testament to the strength of the series’ creators, primarily Gerry Duggan, that the book recovers. What could have been a car wreck becomes a trial by fire leading to profound personal triumph for Rogue. What could have easily been a muddled and forgettable interlude instead becomes her finest hour.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilweSpddEcltTnFDWWZL_ixDHWY0pMgmq_bK3K_OE4jW_7oGZ2JFRC21_uzK0zG5Xc-RYQfPO7TnztUlMCK_sTNHu6_cwgdoODrFSLYEewTnSBhLgMMf4QNROgUt4wFvxbXwxT/s1174/353970B0-BA7B-4876-BCDC-1C0ECF63CDB4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncanny X-Men" border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="1112" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilweSpddEcltTnFDWWZL_ixDHWY0pMgmq_bK3K_OE4jW_7oGZ2JFRC21_uzK0zG5Xc-RYQfPO7TnztUlMCK_sTNHu6_cwgdoODrFSLYEewTnSBhLgMMf4QNROgUt4wFvxbXwxT/w606-h640/353970B0-BA7B-4876-BCDC-1C0ECF63CDB4.jpeg" title="Rogue gets wet" width="606" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>________________</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Oh, What a Rogue</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">I Got No Clue What They Want to do With You</a> (1995)</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue_20.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">Hello Again</a> (1990)</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3. Make it With the Down Boys </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/05/make-it-with-down-boys.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">I. Everything is Science Fiction</a> (1963-1983)</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">4. The Journey Ends </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-journey-ends.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">Part I,</a> <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-journey-ends-ii.html" target="_blank">Part II,</a> Part III, Part IV (2012-2018)</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">& <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-few-words-about-carol-danvers.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">A Few Short Words About Carol Danvers</a></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p></div>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-21516639744168740592021-08-17T09:08:00.001-04:002021-10-06T06:41:28.563-04:00The Journey Ends (II)<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /><b></b></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm_V8QgtVsF8aXSi_qnYehuiT1YT-uYGp_mfoAbOqPmg7wd0-cDyXvDANqJqmQzauT3UCPuTk63mPOmlBJvfR_uZM4nWFZSEinMBjU2vYwF_iQYAYxhL8hU4SoAsrmgPzDGzGZ/s1339/B9294AC1-6973-4FCB-BEDC-F8852EE8DF17.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Avengers 1" border="0" data-original-height="1258" data-original-width="1339" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm_V8QgtVsF8aXSi_qnYehuiT1YT-uYGp_mfoAbOqPmg7wd0-cDyXvDANqJqmQzauT3UCPuTk63mPOmlBJvfR_uZM4nWFZSEinMBjU2vYwF_iQYAYxhL8hU4SoAsrmgPzDGzGZ/w640-h602/B9294AC1-6973-4FCB-BEDC-F8852EE8DF17.jpeg" title="Kirby & Ayers" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, the Avengers . . . the reason I like the Avengers is a much shorter conversation. It’s the Marvel book for people who really, <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">really</span> like their meat and potatoes. Sometimes it’s a $4 Reno strip steak and sometimes it’s a filet mignon, <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">but by god</span> if you belly up to the table for a hearty meal you will walk away full.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">While it’s very easy to argue that the X-Men were in context a lesser effort by Lee & Kirby, the Avengers probably shouldn’t even make that list. It’s the most obvious thing in the world, after all, and was long before National even convened the Justice Society in 1940. Just put all the popular guys (and a girl) in one book and have them fight stuff . . . <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">together. </span>Worked for the Argonauts, worked for the Matter of Britain. If you doubt the perfunctory nature of the early Avengers stories, rest assured their actual origin as a team involves the Hulk undercover as a clown robot. Also, “origin” is probably putting it too strongly: <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Avengers</span> #1 is simply the first time these people meet each other. Captain America climbs aboard in issue #4 and that’s the first time the book exhibits a pulse. It’s still a great story - a perfect reintroduction to a character who was most likely unfamiliar to the vast majority of their readers, complimented with gratifying daubs of pathos and topicality. An early highlight for the line. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Avengers</span> #4 is a perfect summation in one of both the the appeal and the limitations of the premise. At its most basic the Avengers is a workplace drama starring a rotating cast of people who have one of the worst jobs on the planet. Every time the book gets stale you can always upend the ant farm and throw in a few new specimens. Cap was the first new member and the drama of his introduction provides a replacement for the conflict with the Hulk that frames the series’ very beginning. Suddenly the team is an actual ensemble instead of merely a squad of fighters. When its done well, therefore, the Avengers offer the same pleasures as any other long-running workplace entertainment: set up a group of strong personalities, give them a common purpose, watch them bicker and make-out for years on end. These pleasures are not particularly bound to the premise and certainly not to the genre. It doesn’t have to be character driven, although it often is to more of a degree than is acknowledged. Sometimes the book eschews any reference to the long-running subplots of the core Avengers family, and there have been long stretches without any founding member present. It’s such a bog simple premise you can do just about everything with it. </p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFwN-FvK-sWrJxygeB9a0KjxX7vS1o62qKP56yb5WA71G7mAkML-6e0RrJo8ZzCRRNeI-26u38NO85fe__5zb1dQDLRYLPms6kQ8__OGxuLbhHtWbaHAafxSV4GqMutyI9l97l/s1944/AB886740-0127-471D-8B22-71C178EC7C91.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Avengers 4" border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="1335" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFwN-FvK-sWrJxygeB9a0KjxX7vS1o62qKP56yb5WA71G7mAkML-6e0RrJo8ZzCRRNeI-26u38NO85fe__5zb1dQDLRYLPms6kQ8__OGxuLbhHtWbaHAafxSV4GqMutyI9l97l/w440-h640/AB886740-0127-471D-8B22-71C178EC7C91.jpeg" title="Kirby Ayers" width="440" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The problem is, you can do just about everything with the Avengers, so long as you’re content for “everything” to mean the Marvel Universe and its precincts. If you’re not already in some way invested in the Marvel Universe as a discrete object you probably have little to no interest in the Avengers. Without prior investment in Captain America and his haunts, his return to said haunts will elicit little pleasure - until, of course, the marketing copy gets to work at manufacturing prior investment from a whole cloth. It isn’t the book for stylistic visionaries, and if that’s where your interests lie you will probably remain unswayed by any poetic evocations of the Buscema / Palmer team. And in all fairness the continuity of those core characters is pretty complex after half a century, in no way bound together by any common theme. If you don’t like those specific characters - Wonder Man, the Wasp, and the like - you will find little purchase for years at a stretch. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So yes, I understand why the appeal of the concept for many has been limited through the years. Leastways until around 2004, at which point the traditional Avengers jazz was dialed back considerably. That’s the cutoff because that’s when Marvel decided they could make a lot more money with the Avengers if they took away the characters people disliked and added more characters people liked. Crazy, I know. If the characters you liked actually <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">were</span> Wonder Man and the Wasp, well, you were shit outta luck. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You know by now, or you should: at heart I’m a hopeless traditionalist. Tradition can in this instance be a simple joy, manufactured out of of months and years instead of decades or centuries - but kids are suckers for just that kind of thing. If those blatantly cornball aspects of superhero comic books hold no appeal you will almost certainly remain unmoved by any recitation of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">“the old order changeth,” </span>and nothing I can say will sway you to the contrary.<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;"> </span>Never forget Stan conjured that shit out of a whole cloth - the first time Tennyson's phrase was used in this context that “old order” was all of fifteen issue young. He did it because it worked.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, as I alluded, the problem - there’s always a problem. Of course there’s always a problem. Ah, well. The “problem,” such as it is, appeared in the aforementioned December of 2004 when Marvel launched <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">New Avengers. </span>Brian Michael Bendis’ reboot of the team eschewed almost all the traditions, saving the presence of one founder and Captain America (who isn’t a founder but is granted founder’s status in voting and procedure), in favor of a team composed of Wolverine and Spider-Man. There were also a few new additions to the team who were, if not quite sales powerhouses, popular characters in their own right previously not associated with the franchise, like Luke Cage, the Sentry, and the Jessica Drew Spider-Woman. With moody art by David Finch and a focus away from traditional Avengers foes in favor of shadowy conspiracies and decompressed action, the series accomplished what had seemed impossible for my entire lifetime. Not only were the Avengers selling better than the X-Men, consistently and not just a bump, for the first time in decades, the Avengers were suddenly <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">cooler</span> for the first time in . . . forever. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The success of the original run of Bendis’ <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">New Avengers</span> was a remarkable thing at the time and still. In hindsight it doesn’t seem like much of a gamble, but then again neither does <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Ultimate Spider-Man.</span> The success of that series forced Brian Hibbs to eat a bug after it made it to 100 issues of publication, and for that at least, I was there eating that bug too. I read the first half-dozens issues of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Ultimate</span> as they dropped and it was the sleepiest damn thing on the shelves. Stopped reading after the origin because it was so lackadaisical. Turns out people were hankering for just that thing. The further gamble a few years later of letting him cross all the red lines to vivisect one of Marvel’s most consistent, if not strongest, performers turned out to be not even a gamble at all. It remade the company, and if you think I’m exaggerating you weren’t around. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was a marvel, pardon the pun, to see the company cohere so fully and so enthusiastically around a new house style. Whatever adventurousness had fueled the early years of Quesada’s tenure drained as they realized the power of crossovers with the eagerness of early man discovering fire. It was only a matter of time once the success of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">New Avengers</span> had been metabolized for <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M</span> to be announced, and from <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M</span> the seeds for the next decade of X-Men stories sewn like so much salt. From <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M</span> in 2005 the Avengers in turn were on to <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Civil War</span> and <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Secret Invasion</span> and so on down the line until, finally, the streams converged again in 2012 with <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Avengers vs X-Men. </span>That crossover represented the end of an era for the company, coming at the tail of almost a decade’s worth of Avengers stories by Bendis as well as almost a decade's worth of X-Men plotlines stemming from <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M.</span> It was the last monster of its kind at the company until Hickman’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> upended the apple cart in 2015. The scale and impact of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">that</span> crossover was sufficient to have effectively swallowed all memory of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Axis,</span> the medium-scale crossover that emerged from the pages of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> and preceded the <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> by a mere half-year.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9brTjh29-3hOtUCEXazCtkok-KgaOkrzPUgn1yrT_M_bG2NRBrtFVmiF77rWFtEeBtNPpheesc6AzK5tVl8RythqCoQukMTR7WH-vEAfehpMlKo3HbuiHkrMGjOTq267cnqsy/s1943/53B8A24A-A4DD-440D-987D-AA324EE6A81F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Avengers 16" border="0" data-original-height="1943" data-original-width="1330" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9brTjh29-3hOtUCEXazCtkok-KgaOkrzPUgn1yrT_M_bG2NRBrtFVmiF77rWFtEeBtNPpheesc6AzK5tVl8RythqCoQukMTR7WH-vEAfehpMlKo3HbuiHkrMGjOTq267cnqsy/w438-h640/53B8A24A-A4DD-440D-987D-AA324EE6A81F.jpeg" title="Kirby Ayers" width="438" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At this point it is necessary to mention that beginning at least with <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M </span>there developed a sense of grievance on the part of a certain segment of the readership who believed Marvel to be intentionally sidelining the mutants in favor of the Avengers. It’s generally a good idea to react with skepticism to these rumors as they almost never have any basis in fact. Fans are always resentful, its what we do. I resent the fuck out of Rogue wearing a red costume, for instance. That and a nickel will get me a cup of coffee. Was there a specific plan on Marvel’s part to torpedo the X-Men, at any point ever? Almost certainly not and I think the idea can be dismissed down the line. Businesses tend not to want major product lines to sell less, especially given the supposed slide begins before Marvel Studios had released a single film and before any purported rivalry between those later movies and the Fox X-Men films (or the Sony Spider-Man films, for that matter). </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">However, with those very important caveats added, I have already indicated that I just don’t think the company understood the books very well during this period. They put them together in a crossover with the Avengers - <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M - </span>after the Avengers had leapfrogged position on the sales charts, and one team limped out of that crossover in a severely diminished capacity. How was that <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">supposed</span> to look? <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">New Avengers</span> pivoted from <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M</span> to <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Civil War </span>and in that period cemented its status as both center of the line and epicenter of a new house style. The X-Men pivoted from <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M </span>and the Scarlet Witch muttering “no more mutants” to <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">The 198 </span>and <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Decimation. House of M</span> happened during Claremont’s last run on <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Men</span> and he didn’t stick around long enough to do anything with the premise. Doubt it held a lot of interest for the master. Ed Brubaker followed with a solid year of space stuff, already teed up by Claremont, that was itself overshadowed by the contemporaneous and far more well received <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Annihilation</span> events. On the adjectiveless <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> Peter Milligan dealt with some of the fallout of the event, which in practice meant a year of them sitting around the mansion surrounded by Sentinels. That’s the stretch where Gambit becomes a Horseman of Apocalypse, everyone’s favorite. No one wanted to do anything, no one <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">could</span> do anything with the post-<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M </span>status quo. It sat there more or less inert until <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">literally 2007,</span> two years after the fact, by which point none of the core X-books were still being written by the same people who had been writing them in 2005 during <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M.</span> Which means, in essence, the storyline was from almost the very beginning an inheritance shepherded by editors, primarily Axel Alonso.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Oh, wait, I’m sorry, I forgot something</span> - Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Astonishing X-Men! </span>Pardon my forgetting.<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;"> </span>That was the company’s big attempt to pump up the X-Books on the tails of the Morrison era. First issue of that dropped half a year in advance of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">New Avengers</span> #1, coincided with Claremont coming back aboard <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Uncanny</span> from where he had been during the Morrison years, holding down <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Extreme</span>. The marketing copy for Whedon’s debut was rapturous in anticipation of a well-executed “back to basics” move by a then-beloved nerd celebrity writer. With almost two decade’s hindsight the run was a dismal failure. Instead of a bold new direction for the books as a whole Whedon arrived with a boondoggle about space aliens convinced Colossus was destined to destroy their planet.</p><div><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgawF2Q7rxYZvIu0NYcIE9J2JbvHH5ts1vOiLEKzODyMTWkBN4G7WT2YZpjweeHO1Yl0Fekg3KQAwLcvb4IqCEoZmYlbNBjHyKhgJEw9eDDH1iwvk_kaZ-wwpynUcM8PCD4y1r-/s2048/C7721A8B-AC00-4F99-9E95-BC9CB1714CCB.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Avengers Finale" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1350" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgawF2Q7rxYZvIu0NYcIE9J2JbvHH5ts1vOiLEKzODyMTWkBN4G7WT2YZpjweeHO1Yl0Fekg3KQAwLcvb4IqCEoZmYlbNBjHyKhgJEw9eDDH1iwvk_kaZ-wwpynUcM8PCD4y1r-/w422-h640/C7721A8B-AC00-4F99-9E95-BC9CB1714CCB.jpeg" title="Bendis & Perez" width="422" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There was in his sterile fan fic no spark to kindle further stories: he came on board to play with the toys and put them <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">just</span> the way he liked them. Then he got bored and took four years to put out twenty four issues of a monthly comic. The first issue of Whedon’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Astonishing</span> saw print the month before <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Avengers Disassembled</span> tore that franchise down to sprockets in 2004, the last issue hit shelves the same day as the final chapter of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Messiah Complex</span> in early 2008 (<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> #207), already during the buildup to <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Secret Invasion</span>. Additionally, the <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">actual</span> final part of Whedon’s story shipped even later than <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">that,</span> in a Giant Sized special that saw print in May of that year. It had gone from new flagship to irrelevant curiosity in, <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">oh,</span> the amount of time it took to ship five monthly issues in 2005. Which is still better than the four they shipped in 2007. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was hard not to see that a judo maneuver had been performed. In the 90s Bob Harras split the books off into a walled kingdom all their own, at a slight remove from the quotidian goings-on of the mainstream line. The removal was never really to anyone’s benefit but Harras, but it stuck. New management at the turn of the century kept the arrangement simply, one imagines, out of inertia. But then the world turned upside down and the Avengers started selling better. Suddenly the walled kingdom set off in its own exclusive corner was just set off to the side, period. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Civil War</span> was an immensely popular story in which the X-Men barely appear, save for Wolverine in his capacity as an Avenger. There’s a tie-in miniseries that features the X-Men gloating about the fact that, for once, the problem has nothing to do with them. They get to be the law-abiding bystanders sitting on the sidelines shaking their heads at the neighbors. One imagines it must have been very satisfying for the mutants in the moment, but probably less so sitting home on Saturday night when everyone else was out getting absolutely demolished at the cast party for <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Civil War</span> #7. </p><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To the enduring surprise of anyone who remembers the Before Times, the Avengers under Bendis never wavered from their place at the top of the charts. He stayed on those books for eight years and in that time not only finished the initial run of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">New Avengers</span> but also restarted the book in a slightly more traditionalist mold in 2010 - albeit still with Wolverine and Spider-Man, only this time fighting once again Kang instead of The Hand. Of course, that was all still before the movie, before 2012 and before the Avengers became the most popular superheroes in the world. Whedon had a hand in this, as he apparently found it more gratifying to direct movies than finish scripts in a timely manner. This wasn’t even the <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">New</span> Avengers, mind, but the <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">classic</span> knobs - Hawkeye and Black Widow! Even the god-damned Vision and Scarlet Witch became stars. The movie versions didn’t exactly play up traditionalist aspects of the franchise, however. Made the team an appendage of SHIELD. I believe it lacked the style and grace of the Hulk pretending to be a robot pretending to be a clown. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGmPodI6xoH5Sl7dBVD-S5JEgCFTkUuPO6BJa1ZGLIs0B-0yT34BKgun6wiI8PiBscbvuaysUxLdfWnjNWX2CfoFoDTK6-jWHb1SxbGrbV-Bmh2Sq8HM3Bs1RjDNEqEuFkcQ1/s2048/D3FBD433-C392-4852-B244-10518AD70A27.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="House of M 1" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1339" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGmPodI6xoH5Sl7dBVD-S5JEgCFTkUuPO6BJa1ZGLIs0B-0yT34BKgun6wiI8PiBscbvuaysUxLdfWnjNWX2CfoFoDTK6-jWHb1SxbGrbV-Bmh2Sq8HM3Bs1RjDNEqEuFkcQ1/w418-h640/D3FBD433-C392-4852-B244-10518AD70A27.jpeg" title="Bendis & Coipel" width="418" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Avengers aren’t supposed to be cool. It’s supposed to be a book for wonks and oldsters. That the team is a bit square has always been part of the charm. The movie Avengers aren’t square. The movie Avengers aren’t harried adults juggling shitty personal lives, and possibly even outside careers, who have to fight with city planning and get yelled at by the mayor and deal with tabloid reporters. All those quotidian hassles are missing from the movies - the same hassles that help distinguish public superheroes in the Marvel Universe from gleaming demigods at an Olympian remove (or perched in their moon palace). There’s a peculiarly New York attitude towards celebrity at the heart of the most traditional incarnations of the comic book Avengers - a depiction of superheroes as celebrities consistently framed by a pejorative understanding of fame. This isn’t celebrity as an avatar of distant glamor but a picture of fame as a real-life hassle whose presence creates traffic jams and necessitates expensive repairs. Superheroes roll through your neighborhood like wrecking balls. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A major difference between the Avengers and so many similar teams, for much of their history, has been the manner in which the Avengers purposefully choose to submit to the indignities of fame and inconveniences of bureaucracy. In those humbling gestures they of all their spandex brethren at times bear the greatest resemblance to actual civil servants. They get up in front of the cameras to introduce new members every time as if to say, <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">“these lovely schmucks are why the Holland Tunnel is going to be closed for repair next month. AM Shock Jocks across the Tri-State area get your ‘Blunder Man’ material ready, it’s really not ‘if’ but ‘when.’” </span>Even Bendis’ New Avengers did the press conference.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So with all this in mind? Really not hard to see why X-Men fans at the time may have felt aggrieved. If you grew up in a world where the X-Men were the dominant retail hegemon the very idea that the terminally dorky Avengers might one day surpass them both in sales and the world of multi-billion dollar movie franchises seems perverse. I <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">love</span> the Avengers and it seems perverse to me. Sometimes the old order changeth a bit too much. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, keep in mind that the era leading directly into <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M</span> was particularly fraught for the X-Books. The violent counter-reformation that ushered out Morrison’s run saw a brief period in 2004, around the launch of Whedon’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Astonishing,</span> during which Chuck Austen was writing both main X-Men books. Insults heaped upon insults. Whedon was brought in to provide a bold new direction but he did not succeed and that failure impacted everything around it. Claremont and Milligan were sent in to replace Austen on the two main titles and staunch the bleeding, but the books had no direction during this interregnum and neither of those writers lingered past 2006.</p><div><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Certainly <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M</span> provided that direction, but it was not a direction organic to the books themselves. While again, I want to stress that I don’t believe for one moment the company was <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">trying</span> to sabotage the books, they couldn’t have picked a better plan to convince a certain breed of conspiratorial-minded fan that they were indeed trying their level best to do just that. The irony is that on paper it looks very much as if the Marvel brain trust were trying to give the mutant books what the mutant readers emphatically wanted: a strong direction with a long-term arc that would allow the books to regain focus and remain self-contained while also in theory enabling for more interaction with the wider Marvel Universe down the line. In practice what they got was, indeed, a strong, editorially-mandated direction that in practice more resembled a blind cattle chute into which they could shunt ambitious creators for the next seven or eight years. From the outside looking in was hard not to conclude that a rudderless period for the mutant books in the early aughts led the company to codify some of Harras’ worst tendencies in the name of stability. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As someone who at least in theory liked both the Avengers and X-Men the period was quite confusing. I was cold on the mutants for years at a stretch and didn’t at all care for Bendis on the Avengers. Although I will concede he grew into the book he never grew on me. He never grew out of any of his worst tics in terms of static storytelling and dialogue, and while <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Alias</span> and to a degree <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Ultimate Spider-Man</span> were able to make a virtue of the approach I never warmed to it for the Avengers. He got lazier with his plotting as he went, with <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Age of Ultron</span> serving as the absolute nadir of that immobile tendency. He has very little interest in the practical aspects of fight choreography, a puzzling blindspot for someone who has written action stories for over two decades. Do these sound like very old, very practiced complaints? Well. I’ve certainly made no secret of my feelings regarding his shortcomings as a writer of superhero stories. I’ve been complaining about him in public for all of those two decades now. One of my very first pieces in <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">The Comics Journal </span>was a review of his <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Daredevil.</span> There’s a chance I have been complaining about Brian Michael Bendis longer than you have been alive. While I have no real dog in the fight of who sells more comics it is nevertheless puzzling to see your favorite book hit its commercial peak by jettisoning everything you love and doubling down on that thing you already dislike. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Which brings us back, again, to <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers.</span> Because you know all that stuff I said before about how significant the book was to the X-Men as a franchise, in theory if not in fact? Well, for the Avengers the release of this series was also the first time since 2004 the main books had been written by someone other than Brian Michael Bendis. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> launched alongside Jonathan Hickman's reboot of the core Avengers books and the beginning of Bendis' run on the X-Men, and in that context was set up at least ostensibly as a new flagship equidistant between the company's two biggest franchises. (They also launched Al Ewing’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Mighty Avengers </span>soon following, which I mention for the sake of completion even as I acknowledge it as another of many very promising ensemble pieces launched by Ewing to little or no sales response. He has deserved better all down the line.) In marketing if nowhere else <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> represented a new beginning for both teams. In practice, having no connection to the much larger-scale stories in Bendis' and especially Hickman's runs meant <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Uncanny</span> was sidelined almost the moment it left the gates. The Avengers Unity Squad encounter neither the outlaw Cyclops of the post-<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">AvX</span> period nor intersect a single convergence in the build up to <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Secret Wars. </span>They all met up for <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Axis</span> but would probably prefer not to talk about it. (Do the Uncanny Avengers ever show up during the Bendis X-Men run? I tried to remember and subsequently stopped trying to remember.)</p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_jLyvIJt3xweXka8RuqkkiHBlv0FCvRJ1dk7fJBaYveDRFaQx8jObi1dio_WjsiZS8oTEquMLJSLfcH1ARvoWHE1t8YrHEoH0tLFTIirMO4tHrpjGhsN8HYp8Yp1YQmTjpfd/s2048/5BE58767-97F4-43CE-B5C0-766D8C48121A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="All New X Men" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1335" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_jLyvIJt3xweXka8RuqkkiHBlv0FCvRJ1dk7fJBaYveDRFaQx8jObi1dio_WjsiZS8oTEquMLJSLfcH1ARvoWHE1t8YrHEoH0tLFTIirMO4tHrpjGhsN8HYp8Yp1YQmTjpfd/w418-h640/5BE58767-97F4-43CE-B5C0-766D8C48121A.jpeg" title="Immonen" width="418" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At this point its probably worth mentioning that Hickman’s run was in no way shape or form defined by classical tendencies. All of the parts of the Avengers that resemble an old house shoe, the parts to which my Pavlovian fan instincts respond, are precisely those parts that seemed to interest Bendis only a little and Hickman not at all. While there is much to recommend about Hickman’s time on the books its also a singularly terrible Avengers story in which over the course of about three years the most powerful heroes in the Marvel Universe slowly transform into super villains. It’s a story where Dr. Doom saves the day. No Tennyson in its soul, save perhaps a few grace notes allotted Thor along the way. It’s a dirge about the end of the world written by someone who doesn’t particularly seem to like the characters, which is a strange affect to pick up from everything the man has written. Outside, of a few refreshingly sentimental bits of his <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Fantastic Four.</span> He doesn’t seem to like <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">most</span> of his characters - leastwise the work-for-hire folks - and even if the results can be interesting it’s still a weird look brah. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Does he? Does he love these shards of valuable IP? Does that matter? No idea! I’m old and out of touch. I like to have my hand held like a wee bairn. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The less said about the Bendis X-Men, leastwise by me, the better. I remain baffled by almost every single decision made at every point in that run. By the time it finished it seemed to me barely even begun, so little had anything in that sequence actually mattered - a few character pieces had hit, perhaps. Iceman came out of the closet, a positive development that unfolded in a less than salutary fashion, if memory serve. It has its defenders, just as every X-Men era, and I won’t go out of my way to antagonize them any more than I did at the time. <a href="https://www.avclub.com/marvel-s-x-men-face-their-greatest-challenge-change-or-1798286816" target="_blank">Which was a considerable amount.</a> Jason Aaron’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Wolverine & the X-Men </span>on the contrary was precisely the remedy for years of dreary diminishing returns. A lighter book focused on a younger ensemble cast having wide-ranging adventures across the Marvel Universe? Just the thing at which the franchise always excels but to which it rarely commits. </p><div><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(Oh, yeah, I checked, the Avengers Unity Squad show up in <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">All-New X-Men #12,</span> have a brief encounter with the time-tossed Original Five X-Men. A plotline I’m still trying to get my head around! It’s been almost a decade. I hope to soon arrive at <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">comprehension.)</span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, finally, again, with trembling fingers, we approach the actual first issue of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> . . . such a strange artifact! The main launch out of one of the biggest crossovers in industry history, an inflection point in a publishing schedule that had reached the end of a long planned arc and was just then beginning another. The book is the last in a chain of dominoes that began when Grant Morrison was brought on to revive the books in 2001. He killed a great deal of mutants and then also made a considerable number of new ones. For a number of reasons Morrison left the franchise in unquestionably enervated shape and they fell into a period of uncertainty after Whedon’s run failed to materialized coattails. The overreaction to this malaise combined with the sudden contemporaneous surge of the Avengers franchise pushed the company to commit to long-term structural changes to the mutant books. The end result, coming after a period of great creative freedom and no small experimentation, was the placing of a straightjacket across the X-Men, committing them to an extended period of maintenance in service of an untenable status quo. During the same period the resurgent Avengers titles enjoyed a long period of commercial ascendency before themselves entering a lull around the end of the decade. It is true both that people had grown generally bored with Bendis’ Avengers and that the post-<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">House of M </span>status quo had run its course in the X-Men books. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Avengers vs X-Men</span> enabled them, as much as possible, to shake the proverbial ant farm across the line. But from that perspective its hard not to see that <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span> was already at its genesis a throwback to the preoccupations of a previous decade, spawned as it was from the sustained metafictional and commercial conflict between the company’s two strongest franchises. In addition of course to a rather hellacious <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">fictional</span> conflict. So many threads converge here and they also end here.</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0S3q6uMe06iTYr6CxGIj0KL1VBVEYmYX4wPwmXZ050A9IewTEHYHXoSCFap1qz1D7TvpfZnw50awcqGLHwnG6IMEXCZvQBbOz8IRbQnsUq4ClzkcJXUf2zRU53yLAQLV-K_8/s2048/1607D08F-A286-4CB3-8C3A-E979E951E16D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Bendis X-Men" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1342" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0S3q6uMe06iTYr6CxGIj0KL1VBVEYmYX4wPwmXZ050A9IewTEHYHXoSCFap1qz1D7TvpfZnw50awcqGLHwnG6IMEXCZvQBbOz8IRbQnsUq4ClzkcJXUf2zRU53yLAQLV-K_8/w420-h640/1607D08F-A286-4CB3-8C3A-E979E951E16D.jpeg" title="Immonen von Grawbadger" width="420" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Not only was the book an extended crossover between the X-Men and Avengers <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">but</span> between their histories as well. Bendis' run on the X-Men for me was marked by a rather strange unwillingness to engage with large parts of that history, which maybe wouldn’t have stood out so much if the run hadn’t at the same time been generally preoccupied with the theme of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">changing</span> history. (A good rule of thumb for reading Bendis is to remember he always wants a tummy rub after referencing an old comic that didn’t come out when he was 12. Thinks he deserves a <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">treat</span> for it.) Hickman meanwhile certainly felt and feels comfortable rummaging around the entirety of the toybox, but not as I said with an eye towards any nostalgic reverence. His commitment to making sense of <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">all</span> the continuity, not just the stuff in which he is personally interested, is one of his more admirable traits. There's a degree of respectfulness to that approach that seems cousin both to Claremont's scrupulous sociality and Mark Gruenwald's friendly rigor. Bendis could take notes. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But only to a degree, as Hickman’s approach can sometimes feel clinical and purposefully contrary, whereas at his worst Bendis’ enthusiasm for his characters still shines through. (At least the ones he likes.) Enthusiasm in comics can often serve a necessary concession to progress, at least to judge by the spotty track record of fans getting to write their most favorite characters. Regarding the Avengers, the argument could definitely be made that after an extended period of the books being one specific thing from one specific writer (desultory spinoffs notwithstanding), it was for the best they try something else entirely at their first opportunity. Hickman was definitely the man for that in the main line. But that still left fans of the Avengers <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">qua</span> the Avengers somewhat hungry, despite the rather half-hearted return to the more traditionalist elements of the late Bendis era. Anyone who cared about Wonder Man and the Wasp . . . </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">. . . well, turns out they just happened to be in the <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">same</span> book that was responsible for dealing with the fallout of the last decade of X-Men stories having pushed that line far from its historical thema. The same book that was for that moment during the ascendancy of Jonathan Hickman also torchbearer for the traditionalist tendencies of the Avengers line after a long period of relative disuse under Bendis. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">And,</span> most importantly for our purposes, the book that marked Rogue’s return to the team she completely tore apart, in the space of a few pages, in literally her first ever appearance, back in 1981. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Whew!</span> </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It must be mentioned with no small gratitude that neither Morrison, nor Bendis, nor Hickman (so far), showed or have shown any interest whatsoever in Rogue. She was apparently featured as a casualty in Morrison’s original pitch for <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">New X-Men </span>but Claremont saved her from being iced. She shows up for a memorable a cameo during Whedon’s run but otherwise escapes with her dignity. She’s gone when Bendis shows up and completely irrelevant to the design of Hickman’s various programmatic <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Houses</span> and <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Powers </span>(again, so far). I would like to sincerely thank all four of these gentlemen for this benign neglect, from the bottom of my heart. I don’t know how she managed to hit four cherries in that lineup but she surely did. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The only problem is that in (so far!) passing largely unscathed through the grand reboots of four successive mutant auteurs, as well as being written off the main teams following <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">Messiah Complex,</span> she had and has effectively passed beyond the X-Men. She doesn’t have a place in the pecking order, she’s fairly unique for that position, and more than any other superteam in existence the X-Men <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic;">really</span> need a defined pecking order in order to function. Already by 2012 she had become surplus to that story even as they had been chary about committing her to another. Finally they found a new track by pulling on her very oldest thread.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Next: Profound Ambivalence</p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>________________</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Oh, What a Rogue</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">I Got No Clue What They Want to do With You</a> (1995)</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue_20.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">Hello Again</a> (1990)</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3. Make it With the Down Boys </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/05/make-it-with-down-boys.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">I. Everything is Science Fiction</a> (1963-1983)</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">4. The Journey Ends </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-journey-ends.html" target="_blank">Part I,</a> Part II, Part III, Part IV (2012-2018)</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">& <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-few-words-about-carol-danvers.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">A Few Short Words About Carol Danvers</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj94vwF6J6ugy34l98S56QnW1PYGMhFJOHv58Uizyz_leIDx9dyEktF8CXRD29nCyRcGysl606fwACw1QcQt1SP_oMKU5WvDTrSnz07kYUYgpqkrhxBvSINkgdyM4LqW-nKDxOD/s1362/6BBD5A0C-56F3-41E0-86D1-8A559655F04F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Avengers Finale" border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="1362" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj94vwF6J6ugy34l98S56QnW1PYGMhFJOHv58Uizyz_leIDx9dyEktF8CXRD29nCyRcGysl606fwACw1QcQt1SP_oMKU5WvDTrSnz07kYUYgpqkrhxBvSINkgdyM4LqW-nKDxOD/w640-h454/6BBD5A0C-56F3-41E0-86D1-8A559655F04F.jpeg" title="Bendis & Epting" width="640" /></a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div></div>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-27768877969791171592021-08-04T13:29:00.003-04:002021-08-04T16:51:37.061-04:00The Journey Ends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9dLbLAfJlGVtNo9aWdp42IggMJMvu1iGTprWdX7HN9ftyTRC6wAsoTfdh_QyMTBtrxn0JQj4q2ZRQKo5yZ_AEUW0rBmdc2nDffBDmRrGjkSckvzS9GJzgy6sPoA32FmRLfWZ/s1585/E92A61AF-9079-438E-86A8-84D438A69BE9.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rogue!" border="0" data-original-height="1585" data-original-width="758" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9dLbLAfJlGVtNo9aWdp42IggMJMvu1iGTprWdX7HN9ftyTRC6wAsoTfdh_QyMTBtrxn0JQj4q2ZRQKo5yZ_AEUW0rBmdc2nDffBDmRrGjkSckvzS9GJzgy6sPoA32FmRLfWZ/w306-h640/E92A61AF-9079-438E-86A8-84D438A69BE9.jpeg" title="Uncanny Avengers" width="306" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">I</span></a></div>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So now that we’ve established our stakes, let’s jump ahead to the end of the story.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Wait a minute. Say that again?</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Well, you see, it’s like this:</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Growing up, I really did like the Avengers more than the X-Men. In all fairness my <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">personal</span> favorite is probably the Fantastic Four, but they don’t fit this well-established binary. I realized in preparing this piece that despite their being my putative lifelong favorite I’ve never written anything of any great consequence on the team, which seems slightly strange to me if not to you. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Fantastic Four at its best - and as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby intended - is a wish-fulfillment fantasy about functional families and abiding friendships. It was a concept born during the troughs of a long period of disappointment for two men who didn’t like each other and only found themselves working together out of desperation. The alternating grudging and nakedly sentimental family dynamic of the Richards family bears the mark of those traumas. The real-world fallout from their creation certainly does as well. Partly owing to that primal trauma it remains the red heart of the great pumping beast that is the Marvel Universe, the flagship now and forever. That this status remains despite the book itself being notoriously patchy is in no way symbolic, certainly. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Fantastic Four</span> was where they did the kind of stories I liked the most, what with the frequent visits from cosmic entities and vacations to exotic planes of reality. The Avengers did that too, usually with the added bonus of more in the way of involved continuity relative to the rest of the Marvel Universe. Gotta keep up with who’s on what team and when and why. I recognize that with these words I mark myself now and forever as a poindexter of the first rank. These were my priorities as a reader and I’d be lying if I said my personal tastes had changed all that much. I remain a mark for the Living Tribunal. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, it’s not like <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Men</span> doesn’t have those kinds of things - cosmic detours with extensive recaps of older comics and the like. Those were and remain staples of the series, as with most Marvel franchises. But the X-Men don’t work the same as any other team in many crucial ways, and that’s what we’re here to talk about today - the ways in which the concept went a bit woozy after Claremont left in 1991, how the metaphors at the core of the franchise changed over the next two decades, how unforeseen consequences of popular stories can create massive headaches, and how they saw fit to begin a course correction following 2012’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers vs X-Men. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Unlike the Avengers, and to a lesser degree the Fantastic Four, the core premise at the heart of the X-Men is complex and protean. It’s quite intricate and can be changed in any number of ways, but not every change is salutary to every reader or character. The X-Men suffer due to the franchise’s inability to ever perform a total reboot, certainly not in the same way Spider-Man or the Avengers can always just shake it all up and put everything “back to basics” periodically. They don’t get to shake off the accretion of events in the same way as other characters, or at least, only ever in peacemeal fashion. Bluntly, the X-Men, book and characters, tend to get bogged down when left to their own devices. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Y’see, it’s a problem of proportion: our merry mutants spend as much time or more taking care of their own business as being superheroes. Perhaps you might think such a distinction pedantic -<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> if the X-Men are superheroes, isn’t all their business therefore superhero business?</span> Well, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t, but the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">isn’t</span> - which in this case means primarily all the time they have to spend fighting people trying to kill them in the present tense - is pretty big. And it’s not like that’s necessarily bad, as that has always been part of the franchise’s core dynamic. But it hasn’t always been the only part, and I’d argue that some of the book’s weakest periods, consistently, have been those exclusively focused on the X-Men doing X-Men business, dealing with their respective families, dealing with old continuity and old villains. Bookkeeping stories. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Much of the X-books’ early 90s nadir typifies this kind of vacancy, albeit stuffed to the gills with <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">new</span> continuity that was never mentioned again. The overall patchiness of the new add-ons that followed in Claremont’s immediate wake was clear even at the time. Suddenly the villains were part of a very small and claustrophobic family of mysterious schemers who all wanted to kill the X-Men for X-Men reasons that had very little to do with anything in the real world. New characters were all mysterious cyphers whose backstories were overwhelmingly dominated by time travel, black ops, or both. All their big fights were suddenly with other teams of mutants over interpretations of revolutionary doctrine. I have sometimes seen this inward focus credited to Claremont - the turning away from the mainstream of Marvel in favor of cultivating the mutant continuity as a separate garden - but most of Claremont’s run doesn’t bear out this theory. On the contrary it isn’t until the last few years, once Claremont commits to playing defense in the face of mounting pressure to expand the franchise, that the book really starts to become insular. For most of his run the book was ensconced right there in the middle of the line, not just begrudgingly but at times enthusiastically interacting with stories from across the company.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Wait,</span> you ask, pausing a moment to reflect on the author’s many broken promises, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">I thought you were supposed to be talking about the Avengers? This is just more whining about all the ways the X-Men disappoint you, personally. Don’t you like anything? Anything at all?</span> To which I can only answer:<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> Don’t worry, we’ll get there. Patience is a virtue. This is the </span>fun<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> part for me.</span>)</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh171qYPOS_bA7pQMvSl5PQ8zxmau2c_sR1TuRO2U9dmOBFifKA4QrJZ80pxpv5GhqAalAoriO2TztWBj7_HCqjeZcdMoI0of1-SN-Twl3a1XI8P9UAMwhvMWEOz1z6ZDGJnvak/s1294/415A2394-8831-41AB-B3B4-938B548CE728.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ROM" border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="1294" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh171qYPOS_bA7pQMvSl5PQ8zxmau2c_sR1TuRO2U9dmOBFifKA4QrJZ80pxpv5GhqAalAoriO2TztWBj7_HCqjeZcdMoI0of1-SN-Twl3a1XI8P9UAMwhvMWEOz1z6ZDGJnvak/w640-h510/415A2394-8831-41AB-B3B4-938B548CE728.jpeg" title="JRJR & Green" width="640" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Certainly part of his growing reticence was the mandatory participation in expanding crossovers, universally resented by creators to a greater or lesser degree but then still a relatively new phenomenon. However, the facts are plain on the ground. Most books that contributed to these early crossovers did <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">not</span> devote months to the Dire Wraith War in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">ROM - </span>which you recall is when Storm lost her powers, even. Not every book used both <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> as integral parts of major and enduring status-quo upheavals - the team’s conflict with the Beyonder during the sequel is the climax of the second act of Rachel’s Summer’s sad arc (more on that later, as you could guess). It is probable that Claremont disliked the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span> quite a bit, but he nonetheless used them well. Certainly not every book went out of its way, repeatedly, to tie itself to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Thor</span> continuity during Walt Simonson’s run for no seeming reason just because the creators’ were pals and Claremont clearly just wanted a tiny bit of that juice for himself. Hardly a sin! That’s how comics work. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Power Pack</span> appeared a few times, too - written by <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Louise</span> Simonson, mind. John Byrne’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Fantastic Four</span> interacted often, with Lilandra and the Shi’ar crucial to the resolution of the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Trial of Galactus. </span>Although not always so chummy, the two men made a habit of poking at each others’ work throughout the remainder of Byrne’s time at the company, and they picked it up again when Byrne returned from DC in 1988 (check out 1989’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Excalibur</span> #14 for a weirdly literal example of this phenomenon). Towards the end of the 80s Ann Nocenti’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Daredevil</span> and Peter David’s early run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Hulk</span> also had significant crossovers, the latter managing to fit a famously brutal grey Hulk / Wolverine fight between pages during <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Fall of the Mutants</span>. Also <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">right</span> under the wire before both the Hulk and Wolverine pretended to be dead for a few years, very convenient.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Claremont has always struck me as a doggedly respectful creator, very much of the old school. To begin with, every time he’s returned to Marvel in subsequent years he’s gone out of his way to stay current with and be (relatively) respectful towards what has been done since his absence, even going so far as to refer to Wolverine as James Howlett. Such grace from him to later creators exceeds the count of conventional magnanimity and I hope they appreciate that. But this doesn’t emerge from a vacuum. Up until the very end of his first tenure at Marvel he was still doing things like devoting one of his very last issues of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Excalibur</span> (#27) to wrapping up threads from the recently cancelled <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Nth Man, </span>the kind of series epilogue that also left room for more use of those characters. A very 70s thing. Now, given that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Excalibur</span> was an <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> spinoff in the early 90s and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Nth Man </span>was a recently cancelled alternate universe story in which the Marvel Universe itself was fictional, there is no reason on earth why he needed to do that, excepting perhaps that Larry Hama was a pal and that’s how they used to do it back in the day. Little gestures like that, even though they seem from a certain angle like continuity bookkeeping and can go terribly wrong, are part of the glue that keeps shared universes together. (When it goes wrong it can go<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> terribly</span> wrong, like, say, when a plotline is wrapped up with no regard to the creators’ wishes. For an example of that you should read up on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Omega the Unknown </span>to find out the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">other</span> reason Steve Gerber was mad at Marvel.) </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That kind of inter-title mutuality comes and goes in popularity at the company, to a large part depending on editorial, as well as on the presence of real-world friendships of the kind that inspire creative cooperation. As we see from the example of Claremont’s relationships with the Simonsons and Hama, he liked that kind of thing. The Bronze Age was the high water mark for this manner of verisimilitude but it never completely disappeared. Joe Quesada famously hated that type of shit - issues and series devoted to checking on continuity for the sake of checking on continuity, or exploring endless alternate universes. Thought it contributed to an air of insularity. At the dawn of the twenty first century, given the ways in which the business had moved from a newsstand sales model, he definitely had a point. As that regime learned however, the top of the line gets stale if you intentionally cut the less flashy continuity management projects from the schedule. Crossovers and the attendant cross-pollination all returned eventually after a few years’ hiatus beginning around the turn of the millennium. If the shared universe has any creative justification it might begin here, with the fact that this cross pollination and churn is a source of potential and perpetual rejuvenation for literally every character and concept in the line. In the context of the Hulk’s life Wolverine is just one of literally hundreds of dudes who have tried to punch his ticket over the decades. Wolverine started out as a Hulk antagonist, after all, who just happened to join the X-Men. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And Rogue started out as an Avengers villain who just happened to join the X-Men before coming full circle. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, as I said, the X-Men started to decouple from the larger Marvel Universe during the last few years of Claremont’s tenure. The growing preponderance of compulsory crossovers and the constant pressure to expand the line made him a less social creator. Not so much fun when its mandatory, one imagines. Having the team believed dead for a while (which began with 1987’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Fall of the Mutants</span> and remained the status quo for around three years) was a clever loophole that meant the team couldn’t really participate in crossovers the same way they used to. Look to the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Evolutionary War </span>(1988),<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> Atlantis Attacks</span> (1989), and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Acts of Vengeance</span> (1989) for three examples of crossovers in which the X-Men were able to nominally participate while staying more or less to the side on account of their being in hiding. (The villains who encountered X-Men during <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Acts of Vengeance</span> had to sign an NDA, apparently.) </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of course, 1988’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Inferno</span> is the exception here as a major company-wide crossover that emerged from the X-Men titles. Worth mentioning in this context that I also think <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Inferno</span> is one of the best crossovers of all time. The core is very tightly constructed, not a lot of gaps. It grew directly out of a decades’ worth of X-Men stories and offered actual no-joke resolution to a truly impressive slate of long running subplots, so it accomplishes more than most crossovers simply by having a reason to exist. Of course, you <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">do</span> need help to set aside the mounting absurdity of the X-Men having a major battle with an entire dimension of evil in the middle of New York City without ever once running into any of the members of the Avengers, Fantastic Four, or Excalibur, to say nothing of Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, Kang, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">fucking</span> Power Pack, or literally <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">anyone</span> else involved in that crossover . . . even in 1988 the strain of having to keep the X-Men separate from the rest of the universe was clear. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But that strain wasn’t going anywhere. While the end of Claremont’s run saw the X-Men out of hiding and back in their place as a semi-public superhero concern, they weren’t really back at the center of the Marvel Universe. On the contrary, the X-Men books became far <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">more</span> insular in Claremont’s wake. Why? Well, I could lie and tell you the answer wasn’t “Bob Harras” - but the answer was Bob Harras. After Claremont and the Image founders were gone he was left to consolidate power, which meant solidifying the still inchoate barrier between the mutants and the rest of the line. In our real world this meant siloing the X-Men books apart from the “square” mainstream Marvel Universe. The process began in the late 80s, to all appearances a creative response on Claremont’s part to the omnipresent threat of losing control of the book and characters. After he was gone in the early 90s the decision was made to market the X-Men books, either implicitly or sometimes explicitly, against the rest of the line. They had the numbers, they had the cartoon, they had sales that remained solid even after all the creators had left and the books grew terrible and the market collapsed around them. It only made sense. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The results speak for themselves. The industry almost flatlined but the X-Men stayed on top, expanding into a bear market and cannibalizing shelf space from their own company. Lest we forget, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Age of Apocalypse</span> was a raging success during a time of marked and painful contraction for almost every other office in the industry that wasn’t Batman or Superman. Marvel’s different editorial offices split off into separate fiefdoms. Even the ever-consistent Spider-Man books suffered as the 90s wore on, staggering under the weight of their metastasizing Clone Saga. Is it any wonder that when the company hit rock bottom in 1995 it was remade in Bob Harras’ image? </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The separation continued through Harras’ tenure as the company’s Editor-in-Chief, even as the mutant books grew more insular and abstruse. The Marvel Universe of the late 90s was a fractured place, with the X-Men rarely interacting outside of their very narrow lanes. I recall quite well a Daredevil cameo in 1997’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny</span> #351 given the significance of an intercompany crossover. When the company regrouped at the turn of the century Quesada put an end to much of the editorial siloing of the Harras years and demanded accessible product that looked more uniform on the shelf, but oddly maintained the X-Books at a slight remove. Perhaps this was a practical concession due to the size of the line, but it is also my firm belief that the men who ran Marvel in the first decade of the twenty-first century didn’t really understand the X-Men very well and were content to isolate and delegate the problem. That’s a value judgment, feel free to disagree but it’s a value judgment born of having read decades and decades of Marvel Comics, and seeing the degree to which the franchise struggled for much of Quesada’s tenure. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They brought in Morrison to fix the problem and then hated what he did enough to undo most of his changes immediately after he left. Of course, those changes were <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">themselves</span> clawed back over the subsequent decades by creators who were rather more fond of Morrison’s run than Marvel was at the time. The cold reception of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">New X-Men </span>inside the company, despite the run’s status as one of the singular successes of the Nü-Marvel period, is the perfect example of the degree to which good runs and creators in the X-Men line seemed to swim against the tide of the company during the period. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To be fair I also think the premise suffered near total waveform collapse somewhere around Morrison’s run, partly due to his shenanigans, and has never really recovered. Again, I know I’m in the minority on Morrison and I accept your disapprobation. The Genoshan genocide was a rubicon which unavoidably transformed everything that followed. The genocide changed the dynamic completely because the books <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">had</span> to be about living in that shadow. To do otherwise would have been an insult to our intelligence. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The classic run just didn’t spend a lot of time on mutants <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">qua</span> mutants. Political arguments during his time were far more sublimated and primarily symbolic - Freedom Force was American foreign policy incarnate, the Morlocks and the Hellfire Club arose as demographic avatars for their respective economic classes. In-story these diverse groups all agree generally they have more in common with each other than “normal” humans, even if they do spend a considerable amount of time trying to murder each other. Xavier’s “Dream” doesn’t often come up in the original run, they save that chestnut for special occasions. In the real world it’s all about the money and the power and its is precisely these struggles that prevent the mutant community during this period from cohering politically, even as those divisions also pave the road to the very unpleasant future foretold way back when.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Certainly little thought is given to mutants as a group on the international stage during the Claremont run in any other capacity than terrorists, villains, and victims. No flags, just small factions. The war with the Hellfire Club, for instance, was a war not against a political movement but a secret society bent on world domination. Certainly still a political fight, but masking in this instance an economic conflict. The New York branches of Marvel’s mutant kingdoms maintained an upstairs / downstairs dynamic, with the sadistic aristocrats set against the destitute sewer-dwelling Morlocks. The point is that there weren’t really enough participants on any of these sides for the practical disagreement to boil down to more than an argument about survival and ethics among different levels of disadvantage. These were still essentially arguments between individuals, as Marvel hadn’t yet made enough mutants to fill an Applebees. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Making more mutants, as the franchise eventually did during the 90s, invited the necessity of answering real storytelling concerns regarding the actual political dangers of large groups of super powered people organizing under a unified banner. The shape of the franchise at the end of the 90s forced the question, with Magneto leading an entire country of mutants. Morrison picked up that ball and ran with it. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The emergence of mutant geopolitics in the late 90s made these question unavoidable, but also changed the dynamic of the core metaphor. Killing so many mutants all at once created a political will in a population that had not yet expressed nationalist sentiments to any great degree. Suddenly there were other real world metaphors at play, interesting and provocative metaphors that have certainly proved fruitful for many creators and resonant for many readers but . . . a discouraging development if you happen to regard a turn towards nationalism as a disqualifying moral lapse. This focus changes the franchise dynamic and, I argue, threatens the ability of large swaths of the marginalized to see themselves reflected in a metaphor that is at least ostensibly designed in their image. Certainly does for me. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mystique’s Freedom Force were the team’s longest running adversaries under Claremont, and throughout her time in the book Mystique is very explicitly <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">not</span> depicted as an ideologue. Rather, she’s a terrorist <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">sans</span> portfolio and an opportunist whose only occasional redeeming feature has ever been that her expansive view of self-defense sometimes coincides with the interests of her community. During Claremont’s tenure that expansive view was nudged here and there by her <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">slightly</span> less evil wife, without whose influence - we have literal decades of subsequent stories to reassure us - Mystique is a stone cold sociopath utterly without charm.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Claremont understood the degree to which the true challenge of being a marginalized person was not arguing with other marginalized people about abstruse politics but simply the business of surviving in a hostile world. (That hasn’t changed, though you wouldn’t know it from the news.) His characters reside in a world that is recognizably our own, they travel to real places, they have real friends who don’t have super powers. Their biggest enemy is the government, just like in real life. Mutants lose some degree of utility as a metaphor for marginalization when the purpose of the X-Men is not to try to learn to live in and with the world but to create a hidden sci-fi paradise where all the X-Men get to hang out together and wear designer swimwear. That tension was there in the second half of Claremont’s run, as you can feel him growing impatient and increasingly resistant of keeping the team idle enough to maintain a stable status quo of the kind that would allow the X-Men to ever get comfortable. The kind of thing you know the company would have much preferred, at the series’ commercial peak. Much easier to deal with. Sure enough, the moment he was out the door the franchise yielded to the conceptual bloat of said stable status quo. This event inaugurated a lengthy, comfortably numbing period of the team “sitting around the X-Mansion waiting for X-Men stuff to happen.” I do realize this is one of the team’s most popular and iconic phases and the basis of the cartoon. They made a mistake by ever returning to the mansion and vibing. I’m used to sitting alone at lunch, why do you ask?</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s very easy to lose sight of the core metaphor, to the point where it has become completely normalized within the comics themselves to refer to mutants as a separate species entirely. This seemingly small change actually concedes the argument at the heart of the franchise. There’s even an event called <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Endangered Species, </span>usage which could probably be dismissed as rhetorical if it weren’t the rule. Go all the way back to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> #1 with Stan and Jack: Professor X is pretty clear about the fact that mutants are merely humans with extra powers, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">not</span> another species. That’s not an academic point, that’s not semantics, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">that’s literally the heart of the story</span>. Mutants are human beings. It was the responsibility of the X-Men, back to the earliest iteration of the team, to protect “normal” humans from mutants who would prey on them. Mutants who thought they were in some way “better” than other people were a threat not just to the world at large but specifically to other mutants. Without that line, without the X-Men keeping a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">very</span> close watch on that line for their community - not only would “normal” humanity come for them, but just as with every other group of humans throughout history who tried to express superiority through violent domination,<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> the mutants would deserve it. </span>This basic principle of political science has held since at least the days of Sparta. I mean, it’s not like that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">precise</span> idea - of not repeating the sins of past tyrants and oppressors by smuggling revenge under the cover of justice, lest in hubris you destroy your own community - is at the core of Magneto’s character arc across the Claremont run or anything. The fact that Magneto could bring the world to its knees from the privacy of his own home adds urgency to the question.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQO8YCdyQZVTeRIrao8D7qWuaRZ3CwUvCm7GYruMO2X_-QwL54B0SV9kNoakf3hI8EIk_FxEQ06CDeq56XF900uiZbvrBbWJ869Q7lR3G68F8enZBbUIeL0C7BxWWjcywYtfs/s2048/1B621757-FFB9-470E-8325-E94AEFC7F361.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Professor X" border="0" data-original-height="1095" data-original-width="2048" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQO8YCdyQZVTeRIrao8D7qWuaRZ3CwUvCm7GYruMO2X_-QwL54B0SV9kNoakf3hI8EIk_FxEQ06CDeq56XF900uiZbvrBbWJ869Q7lR3G68F8enZBbUIeL0C7BxWWjcywYtfs/w640-h342/1B621757-FFB9-470E-8325-E94AEFC7F361.jpeg" title="Lee & Kirby" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That’s very much a sci-fi problem with no analogue in real life. Marginalized folks don’t really have any military power to speak of, let alone an army of demigods. They - we - do not often get the opportunity to conquer, and certainly do not have to worry about the profligate use of our great nuclear genes to change the shape of the world. Remember, there are two kinds of alternate futures in the franchise: ones where a paranoid government goes after mutants as the result of a fear campaign spurred by one or two inciting actions, and ones where mutants actually <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">do</span> start a war and kill a lot of people in so doing (the aforementioned <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Age of Apocalypse</span> springs to mind). Chuck was right to be worried about the consequences of powerful megalomaniacs left to their own devices.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All of which is to say: I think the X-Men as a franchise and as a book is a very hard nut to crack. It needs to constantly change but it can never really get rid of the characters people like. The metaphor is exceedingly fragile (or robust) in that if you mess around with it too much it can start to look like a metaphor for privilege, or isolationism, or nationalism, or an absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment, or an argument for genetic determinism bordering on eugenics. That the metaphor is pliable enough to allow for such diverse interpretation is to the concept’s strength. However, I personally don’t relate much to the X-Men as much the more the metaphor gets away from the politics of living as outsiders. I like the X-Men as heroes fighting to save a world that hates and fears them, both because they know it’s the right thing to do and also because as superheroes they present the closest thing mutantkind in the Marvel Universe has to a positive public face. Being an outsider superhero is a sacrifice <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">on top of</span> being a mutant. Like Spider-Man but the axis of marginalization for secondary conflict is bigotry not economics. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rogue is the outsider’s outsider, probably why I like her better than the rest. <i>They don’t deserve her.</i> Due to both circumstances and temperament she sticks to herself a fair amount. Being a mutant doesn’t have a lot of upsides for her, and she can’t help resenting everyone around her who enjoys a great deal more privilege on account of what they are in the position to see as gifts. That’s the arc of her first stretch on the team, with the rest of the X-Men coming to grips with the fact that her powers seriously limit her quality of life in ways that problematize their whole concept. For Rogue being a mutant is all drawbacks and disability, despite her relative power. (Perhaps the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">most</span> powerful mutant, for what it’s worth.) Probably a real bummer for people who enjoy their mutant power to see her floating there like Banquo’s ghost. She’s not glaring. Her face just does that. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The years following <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">House of M </span>saw a turn towards periodic cyclical line reboots. The formula of using a massive crossover to establish drastic new status quo changes, giving those changes 18-24 months to play out in an editorially-dictated fashion, and then moving onto another crossover and status quo switch-up felt to me gratingly artificial. This itself seems an achievement considering the line had certainly never been a stranger to reboots and crossovers, saving of course the early aughts period during which Marvel did no crossovers at all. Many of the stories from this period feel tentative, the outcomes predetermined. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">House of M</span> appeared an attempt to course correct from Morrison, but was in fact such a tremendous miscalculation that it effectively stopped all forward movement in the books for eight years, as they stood around furiously spinning wheels waiting for that one plotline to be resolved. Almost a decade to paint themselves out of that corner. Trust me, please, it was a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">long </span>eight years. I think the late aughts wore on creators having to jump through those hoops, at least to judge by how quickly the line burnt through top-shelf talent during the period. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On the other hand, Rogue didn’t do too badly in the years after <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">House of M. </span>Certainly not every character can say that<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">. </span>She was a squad leader on and off for much of the decade beginning around the turn of the century, but she wasn’t really a natural at it and took more than her share of knocks for bad decisions. (She was in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Extreme X-Men</span> for part of that, literally anything <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">could</span> have happened in those comics, perhaps anything <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">did.</span>) This climaxed during the Carey run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><span style="font-style: normal;">adjectiveless </span><i style="font-style: italic;">X-Men, </i></span>during which she suffered a great deal due to a crushing defeat brought about by serious misjudgment. As I have alluded, Carey is Rogue’s best writer who wasn’t actually her creator, and understands well that she is at her best when she has suffered and must overcome. It’s her signature move but sadly requires putting the poor girl through her paces. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This run of adjectiveless <i>X-Men</i> was in turn followed by the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Messiah Complex </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT">crossover, </span>during which she suffers a severe beating, leaving her hospitalized. She needed a break from the daily grind after a period of being ground up like hamburger, and apparently Marvel agreed, because after <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Messiah Complex</span> wrapped in 2008 they spun her out. Not to a solo book, however. The adjectiveless <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> series launched in 1991 by Jim Lee and Chris Claremont - the latter’s swan song on the franchise (at least for the moment) - was relaunched as <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men Legacy</span> with issue #208, right after the conclusion of the aforementioned crossover. Remade as a vehicle for her. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Actually,</span> it was relaunched as a vehicle for Professor X with her in a supporting tole, and the first part of the run is mostly his. He’s a dingus, anyway. But then she’s by herself for a while, working with a few others. Finally she settles in Utopia and has her own defined mission slightly separate from the rest of the team. The overall arc during the period, which continued until <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Legacy</span> switched formats after #275, saw Rogue stepping away from the confines of the main teams and subsequently carving her own place in the team hierarchy outside of the X-Men’s customary (and frankly dysfunctional) strict management style. She stood alone.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(Although I regret the end of more Rogue stories from Mike Carey, I intend no shade to the run that followed in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Legacy.</span> Si Spurrier and Tan Eng Huat’s Legion spotlight was very good. Don’t take my word for it. See for yourself. It even had a hand in influencing a moderately successful TV show about, yes, Professor X’s son David Haller. Weird old world, isn’t it?) </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(Am I planning on discussing <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">AvX?</span> Not really, though it comes up at the end of the Carey run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Legacy </span>so it will certainly be mentioned when we get there. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Riding-Gravy-Train-Avengers-Modern-ebook/dp/B07YNPFZQN/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Chad+nevett&qid=1628096986&sr=8-3">Chad already wrote a book about it,</a> you don’t need me.)</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, with all that said - in 2012 Marvel was ready to at least tacitly acknowledge that many of my criticisms were valid. Of course, they weren’t <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">just</span> mine. Lots of people were complaining after a creatively wan period of incessant crossover ramp-up, and that’s why the Marvel NOW! reboot which followed <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">AvX</span> offered a complete overhaul for the entire line. That is the nature of the franchise, after all. If it needs to change, it can change. If the X-Men books had been siloed apart from the regular Marvel Universe for decades, reaching all the way back to the end of Claremont I; if the long separation had harmed the vitality of both the X-Men titles and the larger Marvel Universe by preventing necessary interactions between disparate stories; if the mutant line’s continuity had grown by turns baroque, opaque, and incestuous due to isolation; if the X-Men didn’t really do a lot in the way of traditional meat & potatoes super-hero stuff anymore and, y’know, people actually did kind of miss it sometimes; if the franchise had wandered too far from its roots as a metaphor for marginalization; if the characters had become grim, insular and paranoid; if the tone of the books had become a depressing frog march into mortal attrition; if Rogue had advanced significantly as a character to the point where she no longer had a defined role on the team sometimes sat askance from the rest of the leadership and therefore needed a new challenge; why, hell, let’s just go crazy, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">if the X-Men actually had tried to conquer the world and Cyclops actually had murdered Professor X,</span> why, Marvel had a solution for that! </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The name of this solution was <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny Avengers</span>. Coming directly on the heels of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">AvX</span> the idea was simple: an Avengers squad composed of members of both teams, with a special remit to, well, basically do X-Men stuff on the Avengers dime. To bridge the ideological and practical divide between two teams that have no business fighting. Actually not a bad idea. Seems like a tall order, though. Probably going to be a bit of a headache to thread that needle. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’m sure they’ll put their best guy on it.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Next: Their Best Guy</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLvtJfGSCY9vJuqexzCiy4ZMk3cSknSLnneStbZ5d0aV3AQF5JN0XlDIALuh16TDlXRQOkgGrd3A8GFoAuL7ySq1BqkkGWDvDD1KDUbtDgSeS-b63L9ONao4QSxWnpCzORRpT/s2160/D3EF44ED-F7AB-4E12-834A-C2BB5F706130.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Wanda" border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="2160" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLvtJfGSCY9vJuqexzCiy4ZMk3cSknSLnneStbZ5d0aV3AQF5JN0XlDIALuh16TDlXRQOkgGrd3A8GFoAuL7ySq1BqkkGWDvDD1KDUbtDgSeS-b63L9ONao4QSxWnpCzORRpT/w640-h248/D3EF44ED-F7AB-4E12-834A-C2BB5F706130.jpeg" title="Cassaday" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>________________</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Oh, What a Rogue</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">I Got No Clue What They Want to do With You</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue_20.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">Hello Again</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3. Make it With the Down Boys </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/05/make-it-with-down-boys.html" style="color: #de7008;" target="_blank">I. Everything is Science Fiction</a> </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">4. The Journey Ends I, II, III</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">& <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-few-words-about-carol-danvers.html" target="_blank">A Few Short Words About Carol Danvers</a></p>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-68758742942330179152021-05-10T11:29:00.000-04:002021-05-10T11:29:00.075-04:00 A Few Words About Carol Danvers<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIw0x8dO58Z9dVvd99IOBCqUsLAfTRK9u75VcvZdWVCwxCA0m9RmPLfHuRVcwBr35-4oe1l8i0UA-rilgzA2GOBUOW_FXfPt0LyhkLdQi_wKuStHK3p4bfXR9E_dz05BG3P6UJ/s959/B101DE6F-E83B-482E-A826-2447C4141A28.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="662" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIw0x8dO58Z9dVvd99IOBCqUsLAfTRK9u75VcvZdWVCwxCA0m9RmPLfHuRVcwBr35-4oe1l8i0UA-rilgzA2GOBUOW_FXfPt0LyhkLdQi_wKuStHK3p4bfXR9E_dz05BG3P6UJ/w442-h640/B101DE6F-E83B-482E-A826-2447C4141A28.jpeg" width="442" /></a></div><p><i>Here’s an old piece you probably haven’t seen. Back when I was doing </i>The Hurting Gazette<i> I produced a few exclusive essays for the ebooks that were never published anywhere else. Along with a longer piece about </i>Thor: Ragnarok<i> and the larger MCU, the following was designed to slip into the reading order in the collected version of </i>Ice Cream for Bedwetters,<i> tentatively titled </i>Salting the Wounds.<i> While at least putatively a review of the 2019 </i>Captain Marvel<i> movie, it </i><i>mostly offers a brief outline of my thoughts on the character. </i></p><p><i>This essay isn’t about Rogue. It’s about another character who means a lot to me, completely separate from her relationship with Rogue. She’s suffered a lot, but in a completely different way. Rogue is strong because she has always had to be strong, she doesn’t know how not to be. Strength is survival. Carol isn’t strong because she always was, she had to </i>learn.<i> She was crushed repeatedly by life and circumstances, and had to rebuild herself up</i><i> </i><i>from ground zero. Multiple times. She’s at her best when she has to overcome. </i></p><p><i>As solitary as she may be by nature, Rogue also recognizes in the X-Men she has a family who will always have her back. Carol has no family. The Avengers betrayed her, the X-Men rejected her, her own blood relations are strangers. Rogue is responsible for two of those losses. Carol isn’t a loner by temperament but by circumstances. Having to rebuild yourself so many times makes you strong but brittle. </i>Civil War II<i> was a terrible character assassination from which she may never recover, but it’s not outside her character to stake her ground on an unpopular position that would alienate everyone she knows. For her that’s practically positive reinforcement.</i></p><p><i>If only said position hadn’t been, you know,</i> fascism.<i> Ah, well. At least Steve was a Nazi because of the Cosmic Cube, which was a fair play even if I found the results wanting and timing unfortunate. Carol only has herself to blame.</i></p><p><i>In all likeliness this will also be added to the final running order of </i>Oh, What a Rogue,<i> as an appendix. The essay was the germ of many of the ideas that have appeared and will appear in that series - I was chagrined to find I recycled a few phrases directly without even remembering. </i><i>That these two incredibly strong but temperamentally dissimilar women share such a crucial trauma in their backgrounds make them a fascinating pair.</i><i> </i><i>Perhaps one day I’ll write a similar series on Carol, but it would be difficult to stop myself from criticizing her politics. The one thing she and Mystique share is that they both voted for Reagan. Carol would have voted for him twice but she was in space the second time around.</i><i> </i></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>“Raven, I see very clearly that you’re going to march in that booth and pull the lever for Reagan, again. After all that I’ve seen!”</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><div style="text-align: left;"><i>“Well, Irene doesn’t see the tax bill, now does she?”</i></div></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>“And you report, what, 5% of our actual income?”</i></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>“6% but who’s counting? It’s the principle of the thing.” </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>“And what principle is that?” </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>“‘Don’t be a pussy.’”And with that she very slowly put her cigarette out on her tongue and walked out of the kitchen. </i></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1QldUCKuq8D4_PbLqEyGearEVfZCCwiIUbTbpGTOSfqmEYDOQf70LFaK8_cITXwxvYEP-owPC0v0QMK0F7KfIhrvuqlR3TZ7XMAeKhooghoWCVx3M4cRHdIf0sPzBMhI9jBUX/s1282/06BEDCC1-AF3A-406A-BECE-A3CFF5B1041D.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="1282" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1QldUCKuq8D4_PbLqEyGearEVfZCCwiIUbTbpGTOSfqmEYDOQf70LFaK8_cITXwxvYEP-owPC0v0QMK0F7KfIhrvuqlR3TZ7XMAeKhooghoWCVx3M4cRHdIf0sPzBMhI9jBUX/w640-h556/06BEDCC1-AF3A-406A-BECE-A3CFF5B1041D.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>Captain Marvel</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: bold;"> (03/24/19)</span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b><br /></b></span>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Carol Danvers wasn’t much of a player in the comics of my childhood. There’s a reason for that - oh boy <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">is</span> there a reason for that - but it’s not as important now. It’ll come up by and by. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I started reading in the 1980s, and she was gone for most of that time. When she showed up anywhere it was as some kind of cosmic hero called Binary, who didn’t actually do a lot with the other cosmic heroes, and so had no relevance to the space stuff that appeared in, say, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Fantastic Four</span> or <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Silver Surfer</span>. (She was in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Starblast</span>, but, like, everyone was in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Starblast.</span> You were in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Starblast.</span>) Space stuff that appeared in an X-Men book tended to appear only in the X-Men books. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After spending well over a decade completely off the radar she returned in the late 90s, as a member of the Avengers. They didn’t want to bring back the Ms. Marvel moniker so they called her Warbird, which I liked. She was given a modified version of her original costume, with a one piece and thigh-high leather boots, which I also liked, and that remained the standard for her until the McKelvie redesign. It was tame by the standards of the time, is a completely true statement that nevertheless seems rather odd out of context. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here’s why I liked Carol, upon her reappearance: she was fucked up. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That’s the short way of saying she’d been through the wringer. In-story the metaphor they went with was alcoholism. She suffered from serious memory problems combined with episodes of disassociation stemming from the fact that she’d had a part of her mind stolen by Rogue - another favorite, because she was, you guessed it, another troubled girl who wasn’t afraid to own her anger. So it made sense given all that junk heaped up in Carol’s baggage check that she would turn to alcohol, and that rebuilding her life from the ground up once she had hit rock bottom would be the thread running through the entirety of Busiek’s run on the book. By the time he left she had been successfully smuggled back in from the cold, restored to usable status, even if the A-list was still a while off. </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRKGioK53uPLUxAXX6UtVkbB3PPxcUKMXg_CtWEt-HCMreA1c5cC2d-KT9NkhhGC-SCjDLKCgg9Ld8m9z3kLclWVkoXpw7-3kMz521j1Yj6ZjCvYboeOLX2nqgIqHrQoqw8P67/s2011/F83FE81E-DFFF-4BC7-A37F-6A1588555B57.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2011" data-original-width="1368" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRKGioK53uPLUxAXX6UtVkbB3PPxcUKMXg_CtWEt-HCMreA1c5cC2d-KT9NkhhGC-SCjDLKCgg9Ld8m9z3kLclWVkoXpw7-3kMz521j1Yj6ZjCvYboeOLX2nqgIqHrQoqw8P67/w436-h640/F83FE81E-DFFF-4BC7-A37F-6A1588555B57.jpeg" width="436" /></a></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">House of M</span> created far more problems than it fixed, but one thing people might not remember was that it was also the catalyst for the company making a concerted effort to push Carol - back under the Ms. Marvel moniker - into the limelight. The gist of the push was that whereas most every non-mutant character suffered in the House of M reality, Carol actually saw a reversal of fortunes as the most famous and powerful non-mutant superhero on the planet. The “reality,” at least at that time in the 616, was that she was a recovering alcoholic who had just recently been the subject of a disciplinary hearing for killing an enemy while serving with the Avengers (which actually made me angry at the time, which is funny because generally I agree with the principle but also thought Carol getting pulled up on it by everyone else after everything else that happened over the course of that long storyline was complete bullshit. She was, to put it bluntly, a trainwreck. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I loved Brian Reed’s Carol. She was <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">trying,</span> dammit. </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So now he we are.Credit where it is due - the kind of stem-to-stern update she got at the hands of Kelly Sue DeConnick doesn’t always take. It’s hard to move the needle on a character so many people already knew. But they did, and it was a model for precisely how that kind of thing should be done. Technically speaking it was a two-for-one, as opening up the Ms. Marvel name and logo also allowed them to do something very different with a brand new character. </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But something else is always left behind, even when change is for the better. It would be difficult to argue that Carol hadn’t been the victim of - </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Well, that’s the thing. It’s one story we’re really talking about. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers</span> #200. So bad, so weird, so regrettable - don’t be fooled by the cool cover. It’s a story so bad they let the guy who was writing <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> write the next years’ annual and have Carol Danvers specifically dress-down the founding members of the team for leaving her high and dry, in one of the single worst actions to which anyone of them have ever been a party. If you haven’t read it, you can discover it for yourself, as I fear my description could not do justice to the actual depravity contained therein. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That’s why she was written out, stolen by Claremont and the X-Men office. Did it really make sense why someone who had been a member of the Avengers for much of her superhero career would suddenly just start interacting exclusively with mutants and mutant supporting characters? Although, it’s probably a more dignified shoehorn than poor Longshot - </p>
</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“Hey, why is Longshot on the team? Is he a mutant?”</span></p></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span></p></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“Actually, no, it’s going to turn out to be some kind of incredibly arduous ‘I’m my own grandpa’ thing when they get around to streamlining his origin in a couple decades, because they’re going to tie him in with a completely derivative character who also joins another X-affiliated team for no real reason other than the guy drawing the book just bought a new ruler and really liked drawing parallel lines -”</span></p></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span></p></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“You know what Gary I'm sorry I fucking bothered to be interested in your crap for once.”</span> </p></div></blockquote><div>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another odd thing about Carol Danvers and Chris Claremont: he essentially <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">did</span> put Ms. Marvel on the X-Men by having a mutant, Rogue, absorb her powers, which then got stuck permanently because <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">blah blah Kree DNA super-bullshit. </span>But then they decided to make Carol Danvers a player again and somewhere in there Rogue ended up losing Carol’s powers, which I hated and still hate, but since she had them for twenty years and now has lost them for about twenty years, it’s probably time for her to get them back again. I mean, should could already have. You know I’m out of the loop. <b>(2021 Me: I’m pretty sure she does now, but I’m still catching up. I read two issues of the new <i>Excalibur</i> and all she did in them was fall asleep.)</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqCTKIH3te05XT0jR8HrPFggoB-3NwXu78j1Mgw8BhIguBg5WCxhCzg3suyYVtr8Lj727tRQia-v7bAZh60oB4flNH6crs27XjAsvv9dn6VJGIJsImGmG-hkRyX91NA6oMntn2/s1794/B6C0FC42-0EFC-4FA4-970E-AFAD7A7F7F2B.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="1352" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqCTKIH3te05XT0jR8HrPFggoB-3NwXu78j1Mgw8BhIguBg5WCxhCzg3suyYVtr8Lj727tRQia-v7bAZh60oB4flNH6crs27XjAsvv9dn6VJGIJsImGmG-hkRyX91NA6oMntn2/w482-h640/B6C0FC42-0EFC-4FA4-970E-AFAD7A7F7F2B.jpeg" width="482" /></a></div>Anyway: Rogue and me, disenchanted X-Ennials who’ve spent basically their whole life being jerked around by The Man because <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">we were too powerful.</span> Carol’s Gen X so dammit if she doesn't make disaffectedness look so alluring.</div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It should probably be said that the reason I adore Carol has as much to do with my affection for Busiek’s run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers. </span>He put in the work of rehabilitating her character, and it took a while to stick but by the time he left the book Marvel once again had a functioning Carol Danvers. Again, that’s not an easy thing to do, not for a character who’d been so badly abused and then, in the process of having being put on a shelf for a while, forgotten by a generation of readers. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Perhaps it’s as simple as that, for me the parts I appreciated about her character were precisely the parts that made her unworkable. She had a reason to be pissed. People she trusted had betrayed her, she’d spent years in deep space getting lost in her own head, she had memory problems stemming from the aforementioned incident with Rogue . . . she was angry and liked to punch stuff, but it wasn’t for vague reasons, no, it was for some <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">very specific</span> and and undeniably <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">hinky</span> shit that made everyone around her uncomfortable for a long time afterwards. There was a considerable paper trail. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That’s not something people like. People like equanimity. They like resolution. They don’t like it when things or people who had been swept under the rug come dragging their asses back for another round of public humiliation. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because that’s what the story was - something terrible, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">really</span> awful happened to Carol while she was an Avenger. She rightfully blamed the rest of the team, because they all dropped the ball in a number of ways. Think about situations like that - in real life, when women are fucked over, are they usually allowed to come back?</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Or more often swept under the rug?</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So I liked Carol a lot. I liked the push she got out of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">House of M</span> because it did feel like a natural progression from where we had been, without sacrificing the vulnerabilities that had endeared her. There were some porny covers on the book over its run, but that was a fairly common thing at that point in the company’s history. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There was always a hapless element to her, even when she was at her strongest. She kept the unflattering costume partly out of defiance. If post-DeConnick Carol is anything, it isn’t “hapless.” She’s strong and confident but the gnawing insecurity predicated on years of both getting fucked over and fucking up doesn’t seem as apparent. She’s, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">gasp,</span> got on with her life. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There’s nothing wrong with characters changing. And it’s worth pointing out, change goes both ways - even if you lose a character to changes you find extrinsic, that same kind of tinkering can just as easily create new favorites. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It also feels slightly ungrateful, on some level, to resent a character for essentially getting healthy. I liked watching her struggle that boulder up the hill, because I too have pushed that boulder up the hill. Seeing her get the boulder up the hill, and then to get it to stay there, well, by the time she’s done that she’s become a different character. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But, you know, it’s not like I'm the same person I was in 2012 either, so. That’s life. I’d probably not be inclined to oblige, myself, were someone to burst into my living room decrying me for being too stable and insufficiently interesting.</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What I didn’t like about Carol’s 2012 soft reboot I don’t like about her movie. Chuck Yeager-type macho doesn’t interest me when it hangs around Hal Jordan like a cloud of Old Spice, and it doesn’t interest me when it’s a woman either. Switch out Geoff Johns’ usual daddy issues for a heretofore unknown mother figure, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">boom goes the dynamite. </span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A few years later she’ll be on the wrong side of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Civil War II,</span> one of the worst stories I will ever read. One of the reasons is that it takes Carol to a place where I don’t think I’ll ever be interested in her again - actually making a strong case for fascism, if I recall correctly? Ah well. I’m not motivated to go back to double-check anytime soon. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh176oPoBKM1Bh2yYm7lNbE3HAwFSStsewCqqAGCulRHQSLNTv_UKD5HhKAGkyhu22K8OLgeM86DYeEjmxFujXInol5cNfAWD9X8C8axxJcB1hIQfc2pvkoIsNJ1Txd95Qm7LSr/s2004/2FBEB4B4-BCA6-45C9-AE4C-8028030CDF70.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2004" data-original-width="1360" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh176oPoBKM1Bh2yYm7lNbE3HAwFSStsewCqqAGCulRHQSLNTv_UKD5HhKAGkyhu22K8OLgeM86DYeEjmxFujXInol5cNfAWD9X8C8axxJcB1hIQfc2pvkoIsNJ1Txd95Qm7LSr/w434-h640/2FBEB4B4-BCA6-45C9-AE4C-8028030CDF70.jpeg" width="434" /></a></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I went in with a bit of a mad-on against the film, on the basis of the trailers I had seen. I didn't know, sincerely, whether or not the Kree would be the villains, and that’s kind of a big question in regards to Captain Marvel’s origin. You could swing it either way. Marvel, for most of the company’s history, stuck to the line that neither Kree nor Skrull had designs on Earth for any good reasons. But given that a rather big deal was made of the movie’s connection to the United States military, it occurred to me that the Kree might be portrayed in a significantly more positive light. Call me paranoid. Like I say, the character was making a strong case for fascism just a few years ago. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Many have pointed out that the ultimate shape of the plot is resoundingly anti-military. I’d say, yes, that is true, but also completely besides the point. It takes a remarkable feat of storytelling to get American audiences to recognizes their own faces in stormtrooper regalia. People believe we, we as in the United States, are the good guys. George Lucas made billions of dollars from figuring out he could hock loogies at the foundations of American imperialism on an unprecedented scale so long as he dressed everything in outer space junk and made the Viet Cong blonde. American audiences are conditioned to root for America, to root for the good guy, and to finish this syllogism, in that order. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The movie seemed to struggle in a few instances where it needed to soar. The 90s movie cues were, strangely, both overbearing but not near integrated enough. I have my problems with the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Guardians of the Galaxy</span> films, but they do use music well. And what’s more to the point, Marvel sold a lot of copies of the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Guardians of the Galaxy </span>ancillary soundtracks. The <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Black Panther</span> album did some business as well, from what I gather. I expected to see a similar effort for this film, but apparently not, or not yet. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The use of “Immigrant Song” in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Thor: Ragnarok</span> casts a long shadow, but barring that I’d settle for Carol whupping ass on some goons to Nine Inch Nails. We don’t get that, but we do get to see her dressing like my ex-wife who was a ten-year veteran of the Air Force, which is one of those things that did make me sigh deeply when I realized how old I was now compared to how old I used to be. Then I thought about the age lines on Jude Law’s face and my brain flashed to the image of the old guy in the red sweater who guesses he’s now going to die. That was the hard part, to be honest, seeing the music from that time period, the time period of my youth, used as cues in a period piece - not even particularly artfully or incisively at that! In the words of the bard of my people, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“Aye, caramba!”</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Certainly, it’s not that I’m precious about the music of that period. On the contrary, I honestly don’t listen to much from my teen years regularly these days. Whether it was good or bad, it’s not very pleasant to me when I hear it now. A lot of popular music in the 90s was unobtrusively overproduced in a way that at the time seemed very clear but now just makes everything sound like advertising jingles. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’ve made my peace with the fact that this is who Carol is now: someone whose character in 2019 is premised on having overcome great hardship to reach a place of new confidence. I read every issue of DeConnick’s run - I didn’t hate it, but it was clear the character had been set on a very successful new direction that would continue just fine with or without me. Maybe one day the worm will turn and Trainwreck Carol will return for a season - like Black Costume Spider-Man only it’s a joke about how difficult it is to recover from serious trauma. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Not Trainwreck Carol is, like, that friend you used to hang out with when you were both depressed but now she eats a lot of kale and goes to the gym and doesn’t understand why anything is such a big deal anymore. Call me when you need to eat chocolate cake at three in the morning. Until then, you’re just too happy for me to fuck with.</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>________________</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Oh, What a Rogue</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue.html" target="_blank">I Got No Clue What They Want to do With You</a></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue_20.html" target="_blank">Hello Again</a></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3. Make it With the Down Boys </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/05/make-it-with-down-boys.html" target="_blank">I. Everything is Science Fiction</a> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">& A Few Short Words About Carol Danvers</p><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjXlanxpKBbhbWG_SQHUlunFfwrcSaQBroqO2Eb6b2bhH2ZVG0cDIBe0l0ExskSp0jLQ6QJLc2jBnlQyV6JhthPd3BKd3N0U1GYlQ57FaaVbKovHPZGQwDtV1G_75I03MQLx-P/s1996/33203CDE-B2AB-4054-AC55-CEB5FDD5AAA1.jpeg" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1996" data-original-width="1355" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjXlanxpKBbhbWG_SQHUlunFfwrcSaQBroqO2Eb6b2bhH2ZVG0cDIBe0l0ExskSp0jLQ6QJLc2jBnlQyV6JhthPd3BKd3N0U1GYlQ57FaaVbKovHPZGQwDtV1G_75I03MQLx-P/w434-h640/33203CDE-B2AB-4054-AC55-CEB5FDD5AAA1.jpeg" width="434" /></a></div><br /><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Having already examined two Rogue solo stories in painful detail we find ourselves a fair way into exhausting our storehouse of Rogue solo stories. Again, she is not by design a solo character. She’s been a team player for the entirety of her career, with personal drama set aside from much of the rest of the book. It still fits because every team needs a sullen loner with a dramatic inner journey whose private angst can be used as thematic counterpoint to the main plot. Wolverine <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">had</span> been the designated sullen loner, but by the early 1980s had been so effectively domesticated that the X-Men found themselves with an opening for a jerk. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Enter Rogue. Here was a sullen loner with two advantages over Wolverine: In the first place she is one of the most beautiful women on the planet, and he is a very hairy Canadian man who wears a costume that usually doesn’t cover his armpits. In the second, she wasn’t going to be cured of her sullen loner status with the introduction of a new lovable team sidekick and a few go-rounds with the ol’ inner demons. She wasn’t going to be cured of that anytime soon. Her inner demons had a lot more bite than usual. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But, now we’ve started, we should back up to the beginning. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(Invoking the Muse would have been redundant - what else is the title of the book?)</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rogue was created in 1981 and did not join the team until 1983. The X-Men have existed in one form or another since 1963. By any measure Rogue was a late addition, joining the team eight years after the formation of the “All-New, All-Different” team in 1975’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Giant Sized X-Men</span> #1. Joining in #171 in the spring of 1983, she was also the only addition to the team between Kitty Pryde joining in #138 and Rachel Summers in #193 (not counting Lockheed). It was a remarkably stable period in the book’s history, and a generative one as well. The version of the team that existed right before Rogue’s joining casts the longest shadow even after four decades.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, I said I was going to back up to the beginning, and we haven’t. Sorry! Probably has something to do with the fact that the X-Men has always been a protean concept, from the very first. Stuffing it all into a single thumbnail is problematic, despite the seeming simplicity of the core premise. Even the sixties incarnation undergoes a number of changes. The root dilemma is that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">concepts</span> don’t become wildly popular, or it’s rare enough to be a marvel in the passing. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Characters</span> become wildly popular. The characters at the core of the franchise from 1975 through to roughly 1984 - a group that just barely includes Rogue but which I think most people would agree does not include Rachel - are the group that people love the most. People don’t want to move on from them. They rarely stray far, even when story logic would seemingly dictate otherwise. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This has been the book’s dynamic since the very beginning. The team and the book need to change because otherwise it gets stale. It’s a school - or at least remains rooted in that structure and that pedagogical mission - and schools are by their nature changing and changeable institutions. This dynamism, the fact that the books and characters <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">do</span> change, and change <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">considerably</span> over time, is part of the appeal. You tune out for a while, things are going to be different when you tune back in. That’s the concept. It’s also the core challenge, because changing rarely means only letting go of things people hate. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The problem with the X-Men for much of their early history wasn’t that people hated or loved them, but that they were mostly indifferent. The X-Men were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, but they stayed on the book for less than a year and a half. Although both creators spoke about the relevancy of the core concepts of tolerance and education, and the progressive bent of the premise was certainly in line with both men’s avowed politics, I don’t think the book or the characters were close to either of their hearts.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Still, there are few greater testaments to their greatness than the observation that the X-Men were practically an afterthought to Stan & Jack both, relative to the rest of the line and certainly relative to their greater careers. These guys were <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">castoffs. </span>Movie studios have spent and will continue to spend billions of dollars trying desperately merely to approximate what Jack could do in an afternoon with a pencil, when he wasn’t even trying. In his shadow they are utter clowns.</p>
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Dude with wings is flying around taking orders from a bald guy in a chair. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Bam.</span> There we go. Simple, clean. Once someone knows what a mutant is - and if they didn’t, the narration would remind them, frequently - they’re off to the races. As bare premises go it’s pretty sturdy. Hardly the first school-based adventure setup in popular fiction, but as we have seen, the idea of a boarding school for children with special powers remains perennially popular. Worth noting, however, that the Xavier School represents, at least in its earliest incarnations, a very WASP ideal of private boarding school as imagined by two liberal Jewish kids from New York. Less in the way of euphemistic cover for corporal punishment, a lot more in the way of awkwardly sitting around in formalwear being lectured on civic responsibility. Lots of military drills in both instances, however.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Once the unwary reader opened the book they were introduced to a variety of caricatures into which later writers would spend decades breathing life. The personalities of the original team were, respectively, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">uptight, rich, smart, kid,</span> and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">girl. </span>Professor X was <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">asshole, </span>Magneto was <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">helmet.</span> There was quite a bit of room for later writers to elaborate, is what I’m saying. If that sounds harsh, it’s not really - those caricatures were still more than the Distinguished Competition had at the time. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Subsequently however some of the caricatures did better than others. Without question Cyclops has received the most development. The focus has almost certainly hurt him, as will be discussed apace. The Beast received the second most focus, owing primarily to his tenure on the Avengers. He was a fan-favorite in that book, and carried the additional characterization with him when he returned to his first book. However, it’s been a long time since he was more than a reserve and occasional stunt member of the Avengers. In the years since returning to the X-Men family in the mid-80s he’s been victim of almost as many unfortunate character-assassinating plot twists as Cyclops. And while putatively featured in many comics Jean Grey has spent the majority of her many lives successfully dodging the intolerable burden of personality.</p>
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Eventually they turned him blue, gave him razors for wings, and made him perpetually angry. This fan-favorite redesign - which, we should emphasize, made the character popular during the most commercially successful period in the history of the franchise, and therefore the most popular he has ever been by <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">many</span> orders of magnitude - proved <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">so</span> popular that it had been almost completely walked back a decade later. In the decades since he’s returned to the redesign at least once, but who knows what he will look like by the time you read this? </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Iceman benefitted from a rare bit of late-career development when he was revealed in 2015 that he was gay. Turned out there was a surprising amount of circumstantial evidence attesting to the fact that Bobby Drake was only ever an unenthusiastic heterosexual. Even as far back as his very first appearance in the pages of <i>X-Men</i> #1 - by Stan & Jack themselves! - he had been observed blithely opining, at the debut of Miss Jean Grey: <i>“A girl ... big deal!”</i> It’s still remarkable to me that the last major Iceman story before he came out of the closet, in 2013 during Marjorie Liu’s run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Astonishing X-Men</span>, was specifically about the fact that every romantic relationship he’d ever had was unsatisfying and inconclusive. Unplanned coincidence, mind you. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All of this still lay in the future in the mid-60s. The first incarnation of the book wasn’t that popular. After Stan & Jack the reins were passed to a handful of successors, the likes of Roy Thomas and Werner Roth. Not necessarily bad comics, but decidedly second string by the standards of what Marvel was publishing at the time. There was a bump at the end of the decade when Thomas was briefly joined by Neal Adams in 1969. Sales ticked upwards on the back of Adams’ breathtaking art, but newsstand figures were very slow and ultimately arrived too late to save a book that had been already been doomed. Adams, already a budding superstar based on only a couple brief runs for both Marvel and DC, never returned to the book. His brief tenure on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> is still counted among the best sequences in the franchise, but was curtailed too soon to be more than a curio relative to what followed. The series was subsequently relegated to reprints, beginning with issue #67 in late 1970 and continuing until #93 in Summer 1975. </p>
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Magneto appeared across the line, cementing his status in the period as second only to Dr. Doom in terms of utility as a stunt villain. He doesn’t really serve that function anymore. Claremont’s tenure on the book mostly put an end to Magneto’s usefulness as a punching bag for other heroes. Little was lost in the transformation - before Claremont arrived and began to develop him Magneto didn’t have enough of a personality to cement any real second-order rivalries. Certainly not in the way that Doom eventually established relationships with a host of characters separate from his primary antagonism with the Fantastic Four.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Frequent guest appearances across line kept the characters in currency. They split the Beast off for a solo feature in 1972 and folded him into the Avengers soon after that. He was popular in the Avengers, and truth be told I think he’s still more popular when he’s with the Avengers. With the X-Men he’s perpetually mired in dour, dystopian storylines springing directly from the pile of bad decisions accumulated in a pile at his feet over the last forty years, surrounded by people who know him too well to ever trust him. When he’s with the Avengers he’s jumping around like a monkey, kicking people and quipping. Why don’t they ever use the version of the character people actually <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">like?</span> I know, I know - “changing rarely means only letting go of things people hate.” </p>
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It’s an old story. Won’t bore you with repetition. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Giant Sized X-Men</span> sold well enough to rate a return for the book after lingering for years in a hazy netherworld of reprints. It was written by Len Wein and pencilled by Dave Cockrum, who would also go on to draw the series that ensued. The series landed on its feet and spent the next 17 years bouncing from strength to strength. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So here’s where we meet the reason we care: Chris Claremont. Just another in a row of talented writers coming up at the company around the same time. We remember Wein, and Jim Starlin too, and Steve Gerber and Steve Englehart. Englehart is the guy responsible for giving the Beast a solo career and his Avengers membership. However, whereas these other gentlemen were peripatetic, working across the company and across the industry during the same period, Claremont stuck it out on one massively successful title for the bulk of his career at Marvel. Also wrote a fair pile of Spider-Man, and the first volume of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Iron Fist</span>. Later had a lengthy run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Fantastic Four, </span>delivered fill-ins and small runs for a host of other books for much of his time at the company. But all that work put together doesn’t add up to a fraction of the popularity and influence of the X-Men. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He inherited a book that had already been set up by multiple creators, filled with a grab bag of old and new characters. No reason to believe anything other than it <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">might</span> go on to successfully get not canceled for a few years. That was the dream! Worth pointing out, many of the company’s most storied long runs from this period and later originated in similar places: Peter David’s run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Incredible Hulk</span> and Mark Gruenwald’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Captain America </span>were also both more or less dogsbody assignments given to people inside the company with experience but without a big creative profile. Journeymen taking journeyman assignments that just happened to turn into massive character-defining epochs. Also both runs that ended under clouds of acrimony generated by Bob Harras, incidentally. Larry Hama’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">G.I. Joe, </span>perhaps the nearest peer to Claremont’s achievement, operated under different incentives: because Hama served at the pleasure of a third party licensor, he was both safe in his job and also unable at such remove to put <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">too</span> personal a stamp on Marvel company IP. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because that was always the problem, right? The company likes selling comics but doesn’t like it so much when the appeal becomes less the name on the cover and more the names in the credit box. The X-Men snuck along under the radar for a while. Took a couple years for the book to do well enough to graduate from bimonthly to monthly status. By the time Marvel realized the nature of the book’s enduring success said success had already made Claremont too powerful to completely control. It was too late. Another breed of leviathan would be necessary for an ouster, in another era.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p>
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Made John Byrne a superstar, made every subsequent artist a superstar (excepting Paul Smith, who demurred the question of stardom). The closest it ever got to bland was during the second Cockrum run, a problem I put down to inking. Joe Rubinstein seemed to sap some of the vitality that had been present in Cockrum’s first tenure, where he had been inked by a variety of folks who generally agreed his work looked better with heavier blacks. But that’s a small complaint. Cockrum II was followed by Paul Smith, after all, and Paul Smith changed the game completely.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What sells comic books? Lots of things can sell comic books - but what keeps people coming back? What makes people go from liking a comic book to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">loving</span> a comic book, from buying a book out of habit or mild affection to slamming it on the top of the pile every month? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Claremont figured it out. </span>There was a formula, more or less, although he might bristle at the intimation that there was anything formulaic about the results. It really was a simple recipe, though: establish a group of friends who have good banter and smash them with a hammer, over and over and over. Rinse and repeat for almost two hundred damn issues. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Am I simplifying? I don’t really think I am. Go back and read from the beginning - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">second</span> beginning, that is. Claremont inherited a variety of caricatures, whose personalities were, respectively, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">uptight, imperious, German, Russian, girl,</span> and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">jerk,</span> sometimes <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Irish country music fan</span> thrown in. They weren’t much to look at, for starters. He gave them some room to establish voices. Then Claremont put them through their paces, smashing them with a hammer over and over and over, until people loved them. I mean, there were a few steps in between there, but that’s the gist. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Why do you think sitcoms never go out of style? People like watching other people bicker and banter. The X-Men is an action story and not a sitcom, but they spend their time bickering and bantering as assiduously as any television ensemble, be it sitcom, soap opera, or police procedural. People like watching relationships form and friendships develop and rivalries ripen, all that good stuff that takes a lot of time and space to develop properly. People like seeing friends develop in-jokes. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One of the problems the first set of X-Men had was, bluntly, they were all too nice. Wasn’t a jerk among them, excepting the Professor. A team needs a jerk to act against, someone to act the part of the irritant, the grain of sand in the oyster around which forms the pearl. Warren Worthington being a slight pill didn’t really cut it. Put Cyclops, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Jean Grey, and Wolverine in a room together, they’re going to find something to talk about. Even if all you have to start with is <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">uptight, imperious, German, Russian, girl,</span> and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">jerk.</span> There’s nothing for the reader to latch onto if they get along perfectly fine. It’s too smooth. Put a jerk in the room and suddenly there’s something besides <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">just</span> the plot to which the characters can react.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No one person fucked up Cyclops so bad, is the thing. After six decades creators have actually done a good job maintaining a consistent through-line for the guy. Just as for Iceman the through-line under most writers led more or less invariably to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">closet case,</span> the through-line for Cyclops under most writers leads more or less invariably to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">asshole</span>. It merits mentioning that many of Cyclops’ more egregious sins were the product not of writerly fumble but editorial mandate - I refer of course to the circumstances behind which he left his first wife, primarily but not solely. In that one stroke he went from dipshit who was still basically a hero to fundamentally broken person with whom I could never again sympathize on any level. And it sucks that one bad decision made for bad reasons by an editor in 1986 did that to him forever, but barring a reboot it’s a hard one to put back in the bottle. Not without establishing the precedent that, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">oh, yes, Scott Summers is indeed the kind of frozen motherfucker who will straight up walk out on his wife and newborn and carry on like nothing happened. </span>So it’s no real surprise when he’s found cheating on his wife - the woman for whom he left his <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">first</span> wife, mind - in another woman’s mind. It wasn't out of character.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s all to Claremont’s credit, I think, that I dislike Cyclops so much. He made the guy seem real. That was the design, after all: at first it looks like Wolverine is the biggest jerk on the team, but it’s actually the leader who refuses to adapt and also refuses to take a joke. And then when he <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">does</span> adapt and learns to work with his team instead of against them he faces the depressing realization that inflexibility was inherited from his teacher. The story then acknowledges what was plain from the very beginning of the Lee & Kirby days, if never plainly stated: the real jerk all along was the father figure who impressed his hang-ups on his pupils. (After all, Kitty’s only moment of true insight was the realization that the boss was indeed the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">real</span> jerk of the outfit.) And that was Cyclops’ arc, and why it made sense when he left the book in issue #201, because he had outgrown the role for which he was created, outgrown both his teacher and his need to be teacher’s pet. Found some degree of peace in a manner parallel to Wolverine’s journey through the same period. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Oooh, theme!</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By the end of Cockrum’s second run Colossus and Nightcrawler had settled into their positions as the team’s supporting players. The book rarely centered their lives - Kurt’s relationship with Amanda Sefton is consistently shown only in passing, Colossus often overshadowed in his own plotlines by Kitty and his sister. They start off the picture of loyal and steadfast but both decline over the course of the series. Kurt began as a swashbuckling free spirit, was gradually worn down by circumstances, and ended his first tenure on the team an insecure neurotic mess. Kurt was eventually returned to something resembling his former self after bamfing over to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Excalibur, </span>a lighter spinoff that launched in 1988 featuring three characters written out of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny -</span> Kurt, Kitty, and Rachel. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There would be no such light-hearted redemption for Colossus. After the merciful end to his <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">completely inappropriate</span> relationship with the underage Kitty Pryde, he fell into a funk out of which he never really snapped. Sullen and withdrawn, his mood and demeanor grew darker with the book’s darkening tone during John Romita Jr’s tenure as artist. 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At the outset of his run Claremont established an important principle: <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">these guys kind of sucked. </span>They got rolled every other issue. Old enemies like Juggernaut and Magneto came out of the woodwork to give the new kids a kick. Even when the team won, the victories were practically Pyrrhic. People got hurt, lines got crossed. As they got better and more confident the enemies kept getting more powerful. All the way back to the first Cockrum run the series' hallmark was seeing characters in desperate straits either learn and improve in real time or suffer the consequences. Mistakes and lapses in judgement are common. As the series progresses moral questions become increasingly thorny and the characters' responses more contemplative. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The characters themselves</span> realize alongside the reader that their lives are far more complicated than previously imagined. Maybe the readers look at their own lives different.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Easy to see all the ways it could have gone wrong. Readers like seeing characters overcome adversity, they don’t like open-ended failure. There’s no way Claremont could have known - in fact, every historical trend strongly argued against - him ever having the kind of tenure on the book that would enable him to set up such a long game so early. He killed a member of the new team on their second adventure! And yet somehow he managed to stick with it long enough that he could make the story of the team coming together the work not of a month or a year but over half a decade. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That Claremont was able to chronicle this evolution and track these changes so precisely over so many years is perhaps the best answer to the question of how, exactly, he could make so many people love this book. For much of its tenure it was the best book Marvel published, and none of the other candidates for the title were anywhere near as good for as long. He respected peoples' intelligence by assuming they could read subtext and inference, and remember subtle details at years' remove. That alone made the book a veritable feast compared to almost anything else offered by the mainstream at the time.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But you can see the germ of the problem even in the very beginning, all the way back to John Byrne’s tenure. The hotheads from the earliest days had already by then become, if not seasoned vets, at least a more effective unit. More trusting of their teammates. What lay in the future? Well, Byrne left right after the team’s biggest defeat to date, and they spent much of Cockrum’s second tenure dusting themselves off from that. Adding a kid sidekick for the team gave the book momentum at a time when it could have gone adrift, even if Kitty Pryde would soon prove a problem in her own right. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">While my antipathy towards Kitty Pryde is well documented, it’s worth pointing out that the period during which she was at the center of the book also represents its sleepiest period. There’s lots of world building that would pay off fifty or a hundred issues down the line, but there’s also a lot of hanging around the mansion looking at Kitty’s terrible costumes. It gives the book a lighter feel when it could have easily veered into darker territory following the death of a founding member. Certainly, enough people liked Kitty that you could argue the focus was merited. But if you find Kitty an excruciating ordeal in human form these passages can be a slog. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Jesus H. Christ, </span>you ask,<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> do you actually like </span>any<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> of these characters? I mean, besides Rogue. And </span>Kitty,<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> of all people! So harmless, so beloved . . .</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Funny thing about <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Men </span>is that through most of the book’s history women were the main driver of the plot. There’s often a woman at or near the center of the book, whose travails form the crux of the drama - another unusual aspect of the book for the time, when seeing <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">any</span> character-based drama was worthy of note, to say nothing of one that took women seriously. (Not to imply female-led character-driven stories are all that common today, either.) Dark Phoenix set the template here, and became the impetus for much of what unfolded over the following years. Kitty moved into Jean Grey’s place at the putative center of the book after Jean died. Rogue served the purpose for a while but soon gave way to Rachel Summers, a more difficult character whose saga ends neither in resolution or tragedy but frustration. Rachel Summers was in turn followed eventually by Madelyne Pryor. Storm’s mega-arc spans the entirety of Claremont's run. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There’s enormous progression here. In the first place, I’ve never thought much of Jean Grey. That’s not euphemism for dislike, honestly I just never really thought of her <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">as a character</span> very often at all. Just what is she? Of all the original X-Men she’s the least developed. She has often seemed more or less a blank slate onto which everyone projected their own desires and inferences, chaste and prurient - reader, character, and creator alike. After she rejoins the X-Men at the outset of the 90s she becomes the team mom. She gets married because it’s what people want to see, for some reason. She’s held up as a paragon by all and sundry for . . . Reasons. She died but got better and then not better and then strangely better again. Unfailingly kind and supportive, but a stubborn selfish lover. I don’t fucking know! Her fantasies are <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">very</span> problematic, but to be fair she's not the only female X-Men whose deepest fantasies involve the antebellum south. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Sad trombone.</span> </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Kitty was an improvement on Jean inasmuch as she was usually portrayed as a person with agency, which Jean Grey was most certainly not for most of her career, at least her early career. But as I’ve alluded, if you find Kitty to be less a “fantasy girlfriend” and more a “Cousin Oliver,” its slim pickings hanging around while the creators sexualize a precocious minor, repeatedly, over the course of many years. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I mean, that’s a thing they did. It’s right there on Marvel Unlimited, you’re welcome to check it out if you’d like - right next to Jean and Rogue's respective <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Gone with the Wind</span> dream sequences. There’s a popsicle eating sequence at the end of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Annual</span> #7 in 1983 so foul I don’t even want to put it up on the blog. She brings out the worst in every creator. A lot of Kitty stories carry that kind of uncomfortable edge, being as they are almost always about adult designs on a pubescent girl. Everyone wants to kidnap Kitty. Everyone wants to trick Kitty. No one ever wants to just seal Kitty in a box and mail her to Abu Dhabi, nope. Which of these options seems the rational course of action to you? </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now of course, there was another woman near the center of the book for a while in the early 80s during the second Cockrum run - oddly enough not a mutant but a former Avenger by the name of Carol Danvers. She had gone by Ms. Marvel with the Avengers, before becoming estranged from that team in an incident so ugly it wouldn't be resolved for almost two decades, during Kurt Busiek's run on the book. Long before that, beginning with issue #150 she hung out with the X-Men in the pages of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny </span>for a while after being hung out to dry by her old team. Carol was then recovering then from an assault received in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers Annual</span> #10 in 1981- a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">different</span> kind of assault from the one which had prompted her leave from the Avengers. She'd had a rough time of it, is what I’m saying. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Carol Danvers represented one of the X-Men’s lesser emphasized but consistent priorities, using their powers and resources to put right things other mutants break. Certainly there could be no circumstances under which their friendship with the victim of a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">savage</span> attack on the part of an evil mutant could come into conflict with their commitment to helping fellow mutants in need. No way that could <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">ever</span> turn into just another rejection in a career of rejections for the most unlucky woman in the Marvel Universe, nope. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The end of Cockrum’s second run and the beginning of Smith’s was the climax of a year-long outer space adventure that introduced both Danvers’ Binary powers and the deathless Brood. The team had been through a lot, both before and after Kitty’s arrival. They worked well together. Wolverine was less the jerk and more the wry older brother, falling in love with Mariko and proving a deft mentor to Kitty. Cyclops had mellowed, ready to begin a new chapter in his life. Jean was long gone and Kitty’s dominance in the plot had begun to wane. Things were stable.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Surely it was clear sailing ahead.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ1ivnW3ILzGIewovGCHiQgVgy8Cc8dzaG_TOhgZFAlGrvDc7IC9Hx5rOhyphenhyphenvCOw1oTggIb-KjAoAgwsRtJWQBJ3voSLxq7Wo72DdnAqb3qG7THXo7Lr9eSW4KLrbkIUmzSQ7-X/s1972/48022A23-B0E1-497A-8D8C-FEA41B0F0755.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="1972" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ1ivnW3ILzGIewovGCHiQgVgy8Cc8dzaG_TOhgZFAlGrvDc7IC9Hx5rOhyphenhyphenvCOw1oTggIb-KjAoAgwsRtJWQBJ3voSLxq7Wo72DdnAqb3qG7THXo7Lr9eSW4KLrbkIUmzSQ7-X/w640-h318/48022A23-B0E1-497A-8D8C-FEA41B0F0755.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>________________</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Oh, What a Rogue</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue.html" target="_blank">I Got No Clue What They Want to do With You</a></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2. <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2021/04/oh-what-rogue_20.html" target="_blank">Hello Again</a></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3. Kick it With the Down Boys </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> I. Everything is Science Fiction </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-67948273688053764132021-04-20T08:57:00.001-04:002021-04-20T08:57:27.572-04:00Oh, What a Rogue<p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvbMUm4OcPaGSxUvlM1jTPsGYovfcx0qYGkHNkopvsd3YOjcSPhB_Uv5aLE0Lb0TZiDs_dxjHOUTUalhUBhSl8y1RTELts7x9Ac_0R7C1Bb3e9fBacrK_k-lH2AfAt4vsVCJh/s2048/3FA7BAE0-6EB3-4163-9111-7DAAE88A334D.jpeg"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1340" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvbMUm4OcPaGSxUvlM1jTPsGYovfcx0qYGkHNkopvsd3YOjcSPhB_Uv5aLE0Lb0TZiDs_dxjHOUTUalhUBhSl8y1RTELts7x9Ac_0R7C1Bb3e9fBacrK_k-lH2AfAt4vsVCJh/w418-h640/3FA7BAE0-6EB3-4163-9111-7DAAE88A334D.jpeg" title="can’t run from your own hollow heart, dude" width="418" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"><b>II</b></span></p><p><b>Hello Again</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Perhaps there is a disjuncture in the idea of fandom - this being for the moment a discussion of fandom. For its faults fandom remains the difference between living culture and dead lines in an archive. Fandom performs transubstantiation, changing the bare materials of art into something new that exists entirely outside the control of the artist or, it should be noted, the copyright holder. Fandom has become the process by which aesthetic artifacts are transformed into social currency through discourse and action. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’ve long bristled at the label of fan, even when young and far less critical in my ardor. There seemed something servile in the notion of fandom, an association enhanced by the industry’s constant baiting of the fanboys themselves throughout the late 80s and 90s. Who signs up for that kind of abuse? A fool, clearly. Of course, that passive aggressive resentment towards audiences is fairly common in the arts. Any number of Hollywood satires or literary farces attest to the noble tradition of biting the hand that feeds, as does Lobo’s denim vest emblazoned across the back with “BITE ME, FANBOY.” </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The dilemma that broke me upon its horns was a conflict between self respect and material reality. I hated <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">being</span> a fan because I knew I <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">was</span> a fan. I knew in that admission lay ownership of a stereotype of self-effacing and uncritical loyalty - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">undignified</span> loyalty - against which I chafed, and against which frankly I still do. How have I resolved this conflict? To a degree I probably haven’t and never will. But to a larger extant, I think, the conflict is resolved by defining the object of loyalty - of what are you a fan of? Are you a fan of creators or characters, or are you a fan of a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">brand?</span> I grew up with “Make Mine Marvel,” but grew out of that attitude long before I was ever going to outgrow the comics themselves. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The problem in a nutshell is that the corporations that own and control the fates of our most beloved fictional characters do not have those characters’ best interests at heart. They have certainly <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">never</span> considered the best interests of creators.<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span>This isn’t a new situation, this is how the business has always been run. How all business has always been run since corporations got in the IP business. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The two most significant events during the twilight of my comic book reading adolescence were the formation of Image Comics in early February of 1992 and the death of Jack Kirby just two years and a week later. The convergence of these two events was the cause of creators’ rights. The narrative that surrounded the Image uprising was simple enough even the early 90s comics press could put it together: generations of pioneers had been hung out to dry - Kirby’s name invoked almost every other breath - so Todd and Rob and Jim were, as Jay might put it, overcharging for what they did to the Cold Crush. Kirby’s death two years later, and after a period of extensive industry carnage, seemed to signal a punctuation mark. The death of a giant to mark the end of an age. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Were the Image founders completely sincere in their repeated framing of their corporate power move as a blow for creators’ rights in an atomized industry? I believe so. That they turned around - some of them within the year - and replicated something similar to the factory system they had fled is ironic but not perhaps hypocritical. (That two of them would remain intimate parties to Marvel’s corporate deliberations for many years to come is another matter entirely.) They still maintained control of their shit, and everyone else who came to their company retained control over <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">their</span> shit as well. What they did with that control was indicative of their character, whether they wanted to launch a media empire to compete with the one they’d recently left or just wanted the freedom to create independent of oversight. Erik Larsen is still going on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Savage Dragon</span> and Jim Lee is still going on covering for Bob Harras. To every man his own heaven. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My problem was that I took seriously what I read. When I saw what Stan had done to Jack, I couldn’t feel the same way about Stan. How can you forget that? You can’t. But it made sense because these facts were all of a piece, part of a pattern that added up to an entire industry implicated in the miasma of its foundation. It also fit with what my parents told me about the world, who it worked for and how it worked. They did it to Jack, they did it to Steve, they did it to Jerry and Joe and Bill too . . . I wasn’t even a teenager before I had learned both that the sausage was made by people and that people were the sausage.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So I knew from very young not to be loyal to a brand, because a brand is just a company. Companies don’t deserve loyalty, people do. And furthermore, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">that</span> loyalty shouldn’t be absolute either, but dependent on respect. Does it matter, you ask, that supporting creators you respect and following characters you love means supporting a company you have, at times, actively despised for their many and various turpitudes? Well, actually, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">it does.</span> It matters a lot, because I knew I was a hypocrite for continuing to give money to Marvel. I’ve always known that, haven’t had plausible deniability in the matter since I was twelve. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Fandom has become another kind of identitarianism. The mass loyalty towards Marvel and DC as brands <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">qua</span> brands is a patently destructive phenomenon in that it levels all nuance to achieve binary stasis across mass culture. Very Manichaean on all sides. I believe very strongly that if you love or have ever loved what Marvel does you should be sharply critical of how they do it. Historically and empirically the company has done nothing to earn our trust as readers or consumers. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Do I love Marvel? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">No.</span> Do I love many things Marvel owns? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Oh yes, a great many.</span> I have found that a profitable disjuncture, inasmuch as I have learned a great deal over the years from worrying the open sore in all its nuance. Profitable as fodder for writing, perhaps, if terrible for the soul.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Trust that I do speak from love, if not a love for the brand. Why <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">else</span> would I be angry?</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s too easy to drown in bile. Too facile an exit from responsibility. Aren’t we here for something more? </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We are. Let’s talk about love. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As mentioned earlier, I joined the X-Men right at the outset of an extended absence on Rogue’s part. She was gone. The few times I’d seen her were in passing, or flashback. That was when she had that late 80s ‘do like she personally killed half the ozone layer. Just another super chick with music video hair. (Still hate that late 80s hair for her, incidentally.)</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then I picked up <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Classic X-Men</span> #44, early January 1990. Same month my dad chopped off part of his hand in a snowblower accident. My first <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">real</span> introduction to Rogue. That issue of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Classic </span>reprinted #138 of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny </span>from late 1980<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">,</span> Jean Grey’s funeral - the denouement of the Dark Phoenix Saga, immediately prior to Kitty Pryde joining the main cast.<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span>It’s the one where Cyclops is especially lachrymose. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">I know, really narrows it down. </span>Rogue wouldn’t appear at all for the better part of a year, and wouldn’t join the cast of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Men</span> for a few more years after that. So she’s not in the main story of that issue of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Classic,</span> but she <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">is</span> in the backup. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The first four years of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Classic X-Men</span> carried backup features, because every dollar not spent on an X-Men book was a dollar you could spend on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Green Lantern.</span> Nobody wanted that. Certainly not if they could entice the most loyal readers in the industry to double dip on stories they’d already read. “Her First & Last,” as such, was a weird pick for an introduction to Rogue. It was a new backup in a reprint book, for one, and a childhood flashback for another. It wasn’t even written by Chris Claremont, but Ann Nocenti. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Nocenti is one of the most talented people to ever work in comics. We didn’t and don’t deserve her. She didn’t write very many X-Men stories, but the few she put her hand to proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she understood these characters intimately. Hired by Denny O’Neil in the early 80s and mentored by Mark Gruenwald for her earliest writing and editing jobs, her success is also testament to the measurable ways in which the company became <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">less</span> progressive as the 80s turned into the 90s, and women and people of color found far less purchase than just a few years previous. By 1987 Nocenti eventually earned the coveted cursed chalice of following Frank Miller and “Born Again” on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Daredevil</span>. What should have been a suicide mission became a four year run considered by some superior even to Miller’s, if clearly less celebrated. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(I’m “some,” incidentally.)</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I wish I could remember what it felt like to read this story for the first time. I know I read it over and over, because this was one of my favorite issues of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Classic</span>. Much of it is flashback and recap about Jean Grey’s life - great for newcomers because it more or less tells you everything you need to know from the book’s first incarnation in the 1960s. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">You never forget the first time you meet Factor Three.</span> I’ve always loved comics that recap other comics, a strange affectation that comes from appreciating the dense and wonkish reading experience bred by that kind of intertextuality. (Also why I was attracted to medieval literature, incidentally.) I liked learning about the characters almost as much as I liked their actual stories. Took more time to read those comics, and I appreciated that.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What was I thinking when I read “Her First & Last” for the first time? Perhaps I didn’t think anything. I just <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">remembered</span> it. Remembered every beat of this strange, sad story. Returning to it for this essay proved a shock, because while I remembered the story vividly I know I couldn’t at the time have articulated <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">why</span> it meant so much to me. It hit me now as if I was reading it for the first time. How the fuck do we process these things, if something as significant as the reason I like my favorite character was a secret my pubescent self buried close to their heart and forgot about? How is it possible to have remembered a story but forgot the impact crater it left?</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The original impulse behind wanting to reread Claremont’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> was actually social. By early 2020 I had been through a period of prolonged intense seclusion while maintaining what was more or less my “day job” of taking care of my parents for the State of California. (I haven’t had a day off from round the clock care of my dad for . . . over a year and a half? Is that right? That can’t be right.) This was during the first stages of pandemic, mind you, so I wasn’t entering seclusion at that point so much as merely confirming an <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">additional</span> period of seclusion. From my perspective the world was finally joining me. As such I wanted to read something I could talk about with someone else. Wasn’t that always part of the appeal? Everyone read it because everyone read it. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you’ve ever read anything of mine you know I’ve been - well, how do we put it? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Estranged</span> from myself. Emotionally speaking. I’m used to being surprised when I go back by the strength of an emotional reaction in hindsight. But I wasn’t expecting, nor was I in any way ready for, the absolute tsunami of subconscious bullshit that poured out of my brain when I started poking the box marked <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“X-Men Feelz.”</span> </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was certainly a surprise to me that where was such a box, even if in hindsight it makes complete sense. Perhaps you have such a box yourself, whether you know it or like to admit it. Or, hell, maybe you revel in it. There was just so much water under the bridge, you know. In <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">so</span> many ways. For both me and for the comics industry, my life and the lives of the X-Men. Easy to pack it all away. Couldn’t efface the bond, try as I’d like. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because we <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">did</span> have that bond. I say “we” because there’s a good chance if you care enough to read these words you share it too - a feeling as if perhaps these weird characters were just a little bit <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">more</span> than the next schmucks on the shelf, in some intangible way. And that achievement, building a stable of players vivid and durable enough to carry on a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">full thirty years and counting </span>past the master’s first leave-taking . . . well. That kind of achievement lingers with a body.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Oh yeah, thirty years - did you notice? Thirty years this summer from the end of the Claremont run. As of this writing. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Just because he left didn’t make us stop loving the characters. And Marvel knew that. They knew they had us by the short hairs and weren’t about to let go. If they didn’t know before the Image founders left - if there had been any doubt <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">whatsoever</span> about the solid commercial appeal of the franchise in Claremont’s wake - it was shelved once they realized the shambling zombie books they pushed out with spit and bailing wire through the lean years of the early 90s still sold well, if never <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">better, </span>than the books they published when they gave a fuck. But well enough in the moment to mask the general downward trend of an industry wide slide.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The lesson was, if we bought<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> X-Cutioner’s Song </span>we’d buy <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">anything.</span> </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So of course the books kept getting worse, as the company kept getting worse. Enthusiasm generated by periodic signs of life - Joe Madureira’s extraordinarily influential run, the still-beloved <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Age of Apocalypse</span> - invariably led to further disappointment. Then after the turn of the century and a decade of Harras-led strip-mining the books shifted into different gears under new management. They caromed down the next decade through a sequence of ill-advised decisions that left me feeling, when I checked in, as if I simply did not recognize the characters anymore. It wasn’t just one bad story or unintended consequence of an editorial mandate, it wasn’t one bad run or even a number of them. There were still decent, occasionally good books published. Just like always, the books were good when they hired good people to do them and weren’t worth wrapping fish when they didn’t. But every new creator good and bad was still stuck dealing with the same roulette wheel of editorially mandated new directions since the turn of the century, new directions that sometimes left very little room for individual characters to express the kind of agency they need to thrive.<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> OK, this month we’re on a rock outside San Francisco Bay . . . </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Do you see why I lost touch? Why I began to harbor grave suspicions that the men (only <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">ever</span> men since the early 90s) in charge of Marvel misunderstood the X-Men on a fundamental level, characters and metaphor alike? Even as I continued to read out of habit, even long after my only real excuse (not illegitimate but perhaps unsatisfactory) was professional? I never felt quite so estranged from the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">rest</span> of the Marvel line<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">.</span> But with the mutants I lost the plot. By the time we hit the second decade of the millennium . . . <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">AvX,</span> the motherfucking Bendis years (<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">shudder</span>) . . . I had no problem tapping out for a while. Still don’t know how the Original Five got home, I’m assuming they were probably killed by the Scourge first. Justice is served! </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s worth pointing out that it’s natural to lose touch with these things. Most people do let things go as they get older. Some people always get left behind when the new thing that used to be the old thing just isn’t <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">their</span> thing. It happens. Part of growing up is realizing that leaving things behind sometimes just means making room for something new in your life.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But they just kept nagging at me, the X-Men. It seemed more, I don’t know, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">personal. </span>Maybe that feeling of incompleteness was only ever the phantom pain of the original Claremont run being so violently terminated. When I arrived it was almost over. There was also the added injury of seeing these intimately familiar characters bowdlerized by rabid misogynists in real time as we paid for the privilege. That sense of loss, of estrangement from something important, that hurt. That hurt went into the same closet as all the other feelings of shame and self-loathing that I am stuck carrying from a lifetime of dealing with an industry that advertises its contempt for both its readership <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">and </span>its creators on a daily basis. It’s the latter I can’t forgive. Because I know I’m indicted as well. When will the hurting stop? Perhaps when we are no longer rent by the moral disjuncture of continuing to support companies who do not deserve our respect. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of course . . . <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">that</span> closet was only one closet in the rather large haunted house that is my brain. There were so many other traumas, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">serious</span> traumas, far more personally injurious than mere hypocrisy or missed stories. There were other closets. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rereading these stories has been profoundly disconcerting to me because I’ve been surprised by the depth of my connection to these characters - and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">one</span> character in specific. Rogue was always my favorite even through periods when I actively avoided the series for long stretches. That’s why Carey’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men Legacy</span> was the book that really brought me back to the franchise even as I didn’t really dig the books’ overall direction. It’s the closest we’ve ever gotten to a Rogue solo series, even if it was still ultimately about her dealing with X-Men shit. It was always the first book I read. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Legacy</span> is my favorite non-Claremont X-Men run, and how I rediscovered Rogue as an adult after years of unspoken resentment from being burnt through the 90s. They made me hate my favorite character, putting her through one terrible storyline after another. I mean, come on, people. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Joseph. </span>(I’ve filled and am still filling in some of the gaps from the years I missed, but <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Extreme X-Men</span> is a bit like laudanum in that too much in one sitting will probably kill you. We’ll get there. Baby steps. We’ll do it together and it won’t be so hard.)</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s embarrassing for me to acknowledge how deeply it affected me to reread the old stories - the first run of Rogue stories in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny,</span> specifically, but also dipping into later series. I didn’t remember how much she meant to me. As simple as that.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because, when you get down to it - I’ve never had a bond with a fictional character as strong as Rogue. I’ve being reading comics since before I could read. I spent a total of ten years studying literature in undergrad and graduate school. I’ve known lots of characters. I’ve felt <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">connections</span> with lots of characters, just like most people. I’ve spent a lot of time writing about these connections, but also about what I perceived as my own problems relating viscerally, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">emotionally</span> to fictional characters. I’m uncomfortable with any kind of parasocial relationship. Like Rogue I’m a profoundly lonely person, and have developed a sensitivity to whether or not friendships are real or simply a figment of my imagination, having been stung too often by not being able to tell the difference. It strikes me that devotion to a fictional character is about the most abject kind of parasocial relationship of all. Not even a real person, literal lines on paper.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Perhaps I’m just picking nits because on some level I’m deeply embarrassed about the whole thing. Estranged from myself. Isn’t that what I’m trying to do with my own writing, create some kind of emotional connection with people through my words? What rank hypocrisy. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So of course I wish I could go back and ask myself, circa 1990 - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">what are you thinking about this story? Do you see yourself? Does that make you uncomfortable - why? </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What’s it actually about, “Her First & Last?” Well, it’s about Rogue as a kid - on the cusp of being a teen, after her powers first manifested. It’s not Cody’s story - although, I should mention even as I intend to punt the question, the actual circumstances of Rogue’s childhood years are kind of fraught. Continuity-wise, that is. There’s some dispute because different writers working from Claremont’s template have differed on various details, including whether or not she lived with Mystique before her powers manifested. Some of the comics that purport to answer these comics were written by Scott Lobdell, to add injury to insult. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In any event, this isn’t Cody’s story, this is Freddy’s story. Who’s Freddy? No one, really. Some neighborhood kid Rogue liked to play with. She already knew what her powers did and was already wearing tights and long sleeved shirts that covered every inch of skin. But not yet fully aware what all that really meant. It’s a simple story, really, and a familiar one: Freddy keeps trying to kiss Rogue. Obviously doesn’t take no for an answer. Finally he gets his wish and its more than he bargained for.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s not a story about something happening <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">to</span> her, however, or even about poor Freddy. It’s a story about bad decisions. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What was I thinking when I read this story for the first time? Did I understand it? Most likely no. What was I thinking? Probably nothing too profound. I was a kid.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So here’s Rogue, young and happy, with the biggest smile of her life. Rogue doesn’t always smile a lot. She smiles when she’s flying, probably because that’s the only time she doesn’t have to worry about hurting anyone. Riding on the handlebars is the closest she can get to that freedom, for the moment. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The art here is provided by Kieron Dwyer, with inks by Hilary Barta. This is a great combo - Dwyer’s loose, cartoony figures and broadly expressive faces naturally fit with Barta’s supple line. So much can be expressed simply through the variable thickness of a single mark on a character’s face. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Look at Dwyer’s body language for young Rogue throughout the story. Loose and limber, in motion - above all, comfortable in her own body as only a kid can be. She still hasn’t quite internalized the degree to which growing older means saying goodbye to that easy comfort with herself, for her more than anyone else.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Even given her fending off Freddy’s awkward adolescent advances - certainly exacerbated by her own <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">willfully</span> ignorant persistence in hanging out with a guy who clearly wants to kiss her - it’s all more or less <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">normal. </span>One might even say idyllic. She clearly <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">wants</span> to kiss him too, is the thing. She just doesn’t quite understand how to square that circle between <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">must</span> and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">can’t. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I mean, can you blame her? Lots of people die never knowing the difference. It’s a hard thing to accept that the unique circumstances of your life will entail different consequences from those suffered by your peers, especially at a tender age. It sets you apart to know that you are different, especially when the difference is invisible. It makes you old before your time. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As a point of principle I avoid referring to Mystique as Rogue’s mother. Mystique was a terrorist who kidnapped an orphan for the express purpose of grooming said orphan to be a terrorist. Like every narcissist Mystique’s purported love is coldly self-serving and purely transactional. Regardless of what their creator may have intended, Rogue dodged a bullet in never having that parentage confirmed (in continuity). What she actually did end up with in terms of parentage wasn’t much better, mind, but that’s another day and another headache. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mystique is, during Claremont’s tenure, a mostly ineffectual mole in the Pentagon whose greatest achievement was figuring out how to get the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants on the government payroll. (I have also always assumed she embezzled a great deal of money.) She does things for only two reasons: to suit her own selfish goals and because Destiny said so. That’s it. She has no agenda beyond “survival” and “my wife”<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> (Borat voce)</span> and to that extent what little she does in the direction of benefit to mutantkind is purely self-serving, more or less along the lines of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">well, I don’t want to die in a concentration camp in ten years so I guess I should probably assassinate this guy, because my wife tells me there’s a cause and effect somewhere or other. I believe everything my wife tells me. </span>Who is Mystique, after all, but a Wife Guy gone horribly, horribly wrong? After said wife dies does she not immediately descend into rank sociopathy? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">QED!!!</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mystique finds Rogue blowing dandelions in the front yard and we can see, immediately - the story is not subtle about showing us - that Mystique means Rogue harm. She is explicitly framed as a threat, cold ivory hand reaching in from outside the panel to disturb the idyll with the touch.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The dialogue through this sequence seems intentionally stilted and awkward, like any young teenager yelling at her parents - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“I can </span>too<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> have boys! I can have what every normal girl can have!”</span> Of course, Rogue probably <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">shouldn’t</span> be playing with boys, at least not like that. That’s the worst part: it’s not like Mystique is <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">wrong</span>. She’s also a coolly manipulative piece of shit who doesn’t know how to do anything but immediately try to turn Rogue’s pain into a weapon for her own use: “Your power is <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">special,”</span> she says, “It can be used to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">help</span> us.” </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Note the exchange immediately after Rogue leaves. Destiny counsels Mystique that, essentially, she will come to regret treating someone she ostensibly loves like a means to an end. Despite being precognitive Destiny is also almost always an ineffectual nag. To be fair, Destiny had to live with the fact that she premiered two months <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">after</span> Madame Web (<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Amazing Spider-Man</span> #210, November 1980 vs <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Men</span> #141, January 1981), meaning she was more or less the Garfield to Madame Web’s Heathcliff. The elderly blind precognitive woman X-Men villain was always going to be more popular than the the elderly blind precognitive woman Spider-Man supporting character, but true heads will always know who came first. (Score another for Denny O’Neil, who this essay isn’t even about, but who created Madame Web with John Romita, Jr., in addition to discovering Ann Nocenti.)</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjsBRn6z-NJOVeGcMyPUtS4m9w79SZYL-OLwKatEBF8-QtrepBICB2LHpo-JhDxsZlMRMl8Z3F85PpnZ2F0vx46jG31-lFXQyavFUXbFtqZq4XwESF1Ha6sn0nVFjaeuJY1e3_/s1074/B2881D00-AECA-4B52-96E3-C35F3586F7CE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="1069" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjsBRn6z-NJOVeGcMyPUtS4m9w79SZYL-OLwKatEBF8-QtrepBICB2LHpo-JhDxsZlMRMl8Z3F85PpnZ2F0vx46jG31-lFXQyavFUXbFtqZq4XwESF1Ha6sn0nVFjaeuJY1e3_/w638-h640/B2881D00-AECA-4B52-96E3-C35F3586F7CE.jpeg" title="the dandelions are a metaphor" width="638" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rogue runs away from Mystique, heading for a meet-up with Freddy. She needs to play, have a good time, be with people her own age - but she’s also stuck. She can’t move on. Because that’s precisely the age, right there, twelve or so, when playing kids tend to segregate along more rigid gender lines, going through the early rites of man and womanhood that transpire in social spaces across the world. Simple as apple pie . . . </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But that’s not Rogue. She doesn’t get to develop anymore beyond this point in time. And she can’t just keep playing on the tire swing with Freddy. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">He</span> doesn’t know that, to be fair. He doesn’t know the last dork to pull this trick got put into a coma for the rest of his life. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And this is the difference, right here. She knew what was going to happen and she did it anyway. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Look now, with me, at those two panels of Rogue’s face in the bottom row. No narrative boxes, no thought bubbles - just a few lines on a face to indicate the most fateful deliberation of her life to date. Look at that first panel - eyes fixed on the middle distance, every muscle in her face clenched. She’s running over the dilemma in her mind. So much story expressed through so little. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then she gets a dare and it’s all over. You can see from the look on her eyes, she remembers -<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> wait a minute, I</span> <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">have the upper hand. I have no reason to be afraid of him and I don’t back down from anyone. </span>Whether she realizes it or not it’s in that moment that she is most like her putative guardian - that’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Mystique’s</span> logic, merely to take as she wishes and be damned with the consequences for anyone else. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But it’s done. In a moment it’s over. She experiences everything he ever was or, truly, would ever be, and leaves him slumped over unconscious.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglOTZceMENKyHI1EK3yTzFrKvbweZP8dr1IdgWNDdga2HJ-v5YdXcFbZBkJUO6Een_J4mUyAQhPsmjWdstFb6ckwFBc3MOHMV9LaR11Or-v0exV5D44VgNN_caSqqCcnHQzNpV/s2026/D0047443-BFCE-4802-8414-4CDF1397D257.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2026" data-original-width="1329" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglOTZceMENKyHI1EK3yTzFrKvbweZP8dr1IdgWNDdga2HJ-v5YdXcFbZBkJUO6Een_J4mUyAQhPsmjWdstFb6ckwFBc3MOHMV9LaR11Or-v0exV5D44VgNN_caSqqCcnHQzNpV/w420-h640/D0047443-BFCE-4802-8414-4CDF1397D257.jpeg" title="what a damn page!" width="420" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rogue absorbs all of Freddy’s memories over the course of two full pages, narrative collages framing the central image of Rogue hanging upside down on a rope swing and in profile. The glow of young attraction is flipped in an instant to violence. Intentional hurt. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Violation.</span> “He would have told her these stories slowly, naturally, in time,” the captions tell us, “and she would have revealed herself, slowly, to him . . . but Rogue will never know the pleasure of that journey.” </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgykORMU6v8NsN-9TTm2fgb5XWJuthg1Jes6jdppHGbnCXAAcAyRvHxSHkHlHtxy-09MphMezW6XXCLbatd4h0JNuvuhKKdsXAfG20vhJrkbWL1VmsNibAg9rf1nl70_4hg06Jg/s1043/B35953E7-C908-465F-9360-9C01658D2763.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="1043" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgykORMU6v8NsN-9TTm2fgb5XWJuthg1Jes6jdppHGbnCXAAcAyRvHxSHkHlHtxy-09MphMezW6XXCLbatd4h0JNuvuhKKdsXAfG20vhJrkbWL1VmsNibAg9rf1nl70_4hg06Jg/w640-h320/B35953E7-C908-465F-9360-9C01658D2763.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">She lands and the narration relates her thoughts:</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue sees his unconscious form and cries. For her to know someone is to rip his mind out, possess it, spit it out again. This is not, and never will be, love. Not for Rogue. A kiss is not a gentle thing . . . She cries for a long time, mourning the normal life she’ll never have.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px; text-align: left;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Have you ever had to do that - kill a part of yourself in order to live? </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This is why Rogue is different, even from the rest of the X-Men. In order to survive she had to disassociate herself from her emotions. That’s a living hell. To realize, from a young age, not just that you are <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">different,</span> but that you are different in a way that will dictate the shape of your life, limit your horizons, prevent you from ever experiencing so much of what we consider “normal” life. To be granted at such a tender age not just that knowledge but the additional perspective granted by her powers - the kind of interpersonal perspective and emotional awareness granted by her powers sets her apart. Already at that age she knows more than anyone around her about seeing the world through other peoples’ eyes. Even Mystique and Destiny, for all their prowess. But when knowing precedes understanding people get trapped, traumatized premature brains held in rotting cages stifled by perpetual arrested development.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We get stuck sometimes at the point where we have to protect ourselves. That fits Rogue to a “T”: wise beyond her years in some respects but childishly naive in a few crucial ways. She doesn’t know how to protect herself from people who would never dream of putting her interests before theirs. As such her life from this point spins out of her control entirely. She returns home that afternoon and volunteers straight away for whatever dangerous mission Mystique was intending a twelve or thirteen year old girl to be able to accomplish.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The next time we see Rogue in continuity she’s punching Captain America through a wall in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers Annual</span> #10. She has become precisely what Mystique wanted her to be: someone who could turn off the part of herself that felt any remorse in order to strike out at the world at the behest of someone else. A weapon. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And we saw where that got her. Driven mad from isolation, loneliness, touch starved, gaslit about the color of the sky by Mystique, so painfully jealous of the rest of the world <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">she became a Dazzler villain out of spite . . . </span>look. I’ve given Spider-Woman “the business” more than once for having a less-than-stellar rogue’s gallery, but the fact is that she <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">has</span> a rogue’s gallery - and a sizable one - whereas Dazzler had . . . </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">. . . uh, well, there was <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue, </span>obviously<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> . . .</span> Enchantress? didn’t she fight Terrax? . . . Robert Christgau? <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Marvel Unlimited doesn’t want me to know.</span> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rock bottom looks different for everyone. Rogue’s rock bottom was trying to kill Dazzler. Now, the person I really feel bad for in all this is Dazzler. That’s gotta hurt, to know your one time arch villain - who only ever tried to kill you in the first place because she was extraordinarily depressed - is a better superhero than you ever were <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">by an order of magnitude. </span>Well. That’s just got to sting. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As much as I like the X-Men in many ways, I’m also critical of the premise. I don’t think it means the same things it used to, and I don’t even know if it ever really meant what it was imputed to mean. I’m not here to gainsay what anyone else feels about the books, but to attest for my own purposes that the books’ greatest strength is their characters. When you can hear those characters it still works. When the writers and editors lean on high concept status quo upheavals that deterministically funnel every character into the same situations, the stories can lean repetitive. When the characters don’t have enough freedom to make their own bad choices they become just like all the other long underwear types who do things out of custom. Only, y’know, with more weird conceptual baggage of the type that keeps them from doing actual fun <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">superhero stuff</span> a lot of the time. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Her First & Last” underlines the degree to which Rogue as a character is a problematic addition to the franchise. Her powers are harmful, not just in the wrong hands or without training. She usually can’t live anything resembling a normal life - the status quo may change periodically, but to permanently get rid of the limitation on touch would hurt her as much as being able to change at will would hurt The Thing. Her powers are a tremendous burden and carry the risk of potentially debilitating trauma almost every time she uses them. This makes her uniquely vulnerable, but also - and for this discussion, just as important - it’s what makes her an interesting character. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Lots of real-life disabilities and diseases are mutations too, after all. The books are often ill-equipped to deal with mutants whose fantastic powers resemble more harmful disabilities, even though <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">plenty</span> of characters exist who could possibly fit that bill. (Rockslide and Glob Herman, I’m sorry you have no junk. That must be profoundly disconcerting.) I mean, perhaps the point should be stated directly: if the limitations placed on Rogue’s life by her powers <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">aren’t</span> a disability I don’t know what is. Does Krakoa have disability accommodations? I’ve still only read a bit, maybe it does. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Plus, of course, there’s the bipolar disorder, a boring old real world disability exacerbated and inflamed by her powers and decades of trauma, clearly defined in the cycles of her violent antisocial behavior. Another thing we share: <i>anger management issues.</i> Like me, the adrenaline from anger makes her manic. She was manic <i>a lot.</i> Bipolars who live like that burn out like candles - cf. DMX RIP. In an early flashback (<i>Uncanny X-Men</i> #203), she describes the thought process behind trying to murder Carol Danvers by throwing her unconscious body off the Golden Gate Bridge: </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i>Ah was so wired from the fight, ah didn’t know really what had happened - ‘cept that, somehow, she’d made me crazy. Ah thought, by gettin’ rid of her, once an’ for all - by destroyin’ her body as ah had her mind - ah’d silence the voices, the screams, the pain, the rage inside my own head.</i></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Notice the slippage there? She starts by saying that absorbing Carol’s mind <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">made</span> her crazy, but then ends by indicating that somehow during the course of the fight Carol becomes identified with <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">all</span> “the voices, the screams, the pain, the rage” she was already suffering. As a result of years and years spent in denial, using violence and adrenaline to self-medicate, scarred by lack of treatment for mental illness and lack of accommodation for disability, constantly disassociating because of around-the-clock gaslighting at the hands of a paranoid narcissist, she arrives at adulthood barely functional. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, follow me here: Mystique finds a troubled and desperate young mutant and trains her to be a terrorist. Rogue teaches herself to get by no matter how much it hurts, no matter how much it costs to mask her own feelings. It works for a time until, well, she loses her shit entirely and tries to kill the Dazzler. Multiple times. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Finally</span> she breaks free from years of brainwashing and - in a rare lucid moment between manic fugues spent trying to kill women on whom she had become psychosexually fixated - arrives on the doorstop of her enemies to beg for help with her inherently destructive powers. Help which is granted, even despite vocal objections from most of the team. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(Usually not mentioned that one catalyst for her change of heart was a fight with ROM where she absorbed a spark of the Spaceknight’s inherent kindness and nobility. Better than lithium!)</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That should be a good story, but somehow I can’t help but thinking that the next part matters too, the part where the kid who just made the first tentative steps in the direction of some kind of treatment for her severe mental illness was then handed a thick three-ring binder labeled <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“People Who Will Want to Kill You Now That You Are an X-Man.”</span> It’s a strange list, basically just a couple inches of loose leaf pages from the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition. </span>You know, the one where everyone’s holding up their capes to show off <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">dat ass tho.</span> Biggest entry <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">by far</span> is the Appendix entitled <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">“Chucksies’ Whoopsies,”</span> a catalog of Charles’ personal errors in judgment which might at any moment come back to kill someone. It’s got lots of handwritten notes and some Post It’s sticking out because the information is very fluid. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’m not saying the business model is fundamentally flawed but I <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">am</span> saying Charles Xavier never met a personal problem he couldn’t solve by raising a private militia of troubled teens. Maybe not such a great idea to index an entire civil rights movement to the mercurial whims of a rich WASP. I tend to like the books the better the further away he is from the story. For a number of reasons, not least of which being he has <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">objectively terrible personal judgment. </span>What is the value of a father figure who is almost always wrong and what’s more a bellicose prick? Who will, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">and please be advised I’m about to use some “spicy language” to indicate my contempt,</span> abandon his charges at a moments’ notice to go hang out with space bird strange? Like he did in issue #200 of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny?</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yeah, I know. He had reasons. Bet they were good reasons, too. He had to buy a pack of smokes on Chandilar. At least the book gets better once he’s not there to piss all over everyone’s Frosted Flakes. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I don’t have a lot of patience for father figures, I guess you could say. The X-Men as a franchise is stuffed to the gills with father figures working out their father issues by raising private militias, often of literal children. I know it’s the premise, but I don’t really believe in leaders. If you don’t believe in leaders <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">it’s a problematic premise. </span>The Avengers operate as more or less a democracy, with team leaders elected and major decisions made as a group - the JLA and the Legion work on the same principle. The X-Men, bless their hearts, huddle around and wait for one of three people to tell them what to do: the serial liar who was also Onslaught, the guy who left his wife twice - and that’s two <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">different</span> wives - in the most abjectly humiliating ways he could imagine, or Storm. I mean, maybe I’m exaggerating a trifle. But as organizations go the team is rigidly hierarchical in a way other teams seem to actively strive against. Can’t shake the basic association with the schoolhouse chain of command.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I ask you, is this a good environment for Rogue? After all she’s been through? </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, if you’re an astute reader you might be expecting me to loop back at some point to a glancing comment a made towards the beginning of the essay, about my dad’s accident back in 1990. But for these purposes the individual circumstances of that accident are besides the point - the point in this case being not one trauma but many. Accidents and incidents from throughout childhood and subsequent years that ring in memory like tinnitus, even as more benign surrounding memories and associations fade. Once you start turning off parts of yourself, you don’t really get to choose after a while what gets turned off. The circuit box got permanently jammed after a lifetime’s worth of weird and traumatic shit, years spent learning to disassociate from the material circumstances of my life, from the onslaught of mental illness and gender dysphoria, and, fuck, various kinds of neuroatypicality just sprinkled around on top like chocolate chips. Well! You know what that does to a body. Driven mad from isolation, loneliness, touch starved, surrounded by people who didn’t necessarily have your best interests at heart . . . </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What was I thinking when I read this story for the first time? Did I understand it? Most likely no. What was I thinking? Probably nothing too profound. I think at the time I thought Dwyer’s young Rogue was the cutest girl I’d ever seen in the world. My whole life I’ve fallen in love with girls for looking just a bit like that.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There’s no way I could have understood at the time why the story would mean so much to me so many years after the fact, looking back with three decades experience in the painful consequences of that kind of self-repression. For Rogue, as for me, what seemed such a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">simple</span> decision in the context of the story is far more fateful in light of the next miserable period of her life, years spent killing the best parts of her because they were the parts that hurt the most. In the process she became the worst possible version of herself. It’s a hard thing to be a kid and realize, to grasp on some obscure level even if distinctly, that you’re different than other kids, and you’re not necessarily different because you’re special but because for the rest of your life the conflicts within your head are always going to seem just a <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">little</span> bit more vivid than the conflicts outside your head. Not something everyone can or wants to understand, especially if you barely do yourself. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Other people have a way of picking up on stuff like that. Rogue masks it well, better than I do. “Rogue has a way with men,” we hear repeated in various formulations through her history. All because she’s a tiny bit aloof, somewhat distracted, and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">definitely</span> impatient. Of course, the fact that’s she’s a stunner doesn’t hurt. But it’s her attitude. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Generally disinterested.</span> Drives men wild. Even though it’s just Rogue being Rogue. Always something on her mind, even if she mostly keeps her own counsel. Always feels alone in a crowd.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There’s a disjuncture in the idea of fandom, for me, because disassociating myself from my genuine love from these characters - specifically Rogue - was nothing more than collateral damage from a decades’-long war against my own mental health. Just another inconsequential memory. A fraction of a thought. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But not every memory resurfaced singes the brain with the uncanny recognition through time of myself. The disjuncture is with me, my discomfort with the vulnerability required as an entrance to <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">fandom, </span>a problem I’ve written about for years and come no closer to exsanguination. Letting go of critical detachment, professional or academic, is still not easy. What is fandom but a public profession of love, and what is a public profession of love but an admission of vulnerability? Exposure of a soft underbelly, the one missing scale? </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What else am I trying to do but maintain a safe distance so as to avoid being hurt again? </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Running into Rogue again like this, taking the time to catch up with an old friend - well, you know how it is. I guess we’ve both been through the wringer - started strong, ran into some bumpy patches because of bad writing, acted dependably out of character for years at a time. Did the best with the cards we were dealt. After some forty years still all potential and poor execution. Just two more neurotic burnt out xennials who took a wrong turn in the 90s and spent the next decades trying to find the person they could have been. Ravishingly banal, when you put it like that. The great wisdom of middle age is that every day not spent trying to kill the Dazzler is a triumph. Simple as apple pie.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weird to think my writing a book about her is more than Marvel’s done yet. You did figure out that’s what we’re doing here, right? </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Thanks for reading the first two chapters of my book about Rogue. She means the world to me.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-5355950504836763382021-04-06T10:24:00.001-04:002021-05-03T08:26:27.574-04:00Oh, What A Rogue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQw-JSNxajeLjT3IJYfEWy0MadQmHZk8sLh8vee_i_6orsEQjz6F2OXUrTLFjTr7Mo4TTrNfj9rmx5YsRma6O0UfkKU7bK-p8PrfHEJdUyhxGvhiwp3SSdhEvJNTC3MMUXCKd/s2048/C3027ACD-14CE-43BB-A37F-BC8173CC7057.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rogue #1" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1348" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQw-JSNxajeLjT3IJYfEWy0MadQmHZk8sLh8vee_i_6orsEQjz6F2OXUrTLFjTr7Mo4TTrNfj9rmx5YsRma6O0UfkKU7bK-p8PrfHEJdUyhxGvhiwp3SSdhEvJNTC3MMUXCKd/w422-h640/C3027ACD-14CE-43BB-A37F-BC8173CC7057.jpeg" title="aaaaaaand we’re back" width="422" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>I</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>I Got No Clue What They Want to do With You</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So how then are we even to live, now, in this bold world of terrible wonder? </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And what more remains to be said after twenty five years on the subject of Rogue’s first solo book, a four issue miniseries from 1995? There are a lot of numbers in the previous sentence - like, for instance, twenty five years. Feel old? Rogue premiered in 1981. Took fourteen years from her first appearance in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers Annual</span> #10 for her to get her first solo series. Her next came in 2001, another four issue mini. Feel old? In 2004 she was granted her first and only ongoing solo series. It lasted a polite year. Her next starring role was fourteen years later as a wife.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">These facts hint at a much larger truism: X-Men don’t do solo series. There’s one obvious exception (barring Cable, who was only much later made an X-Man), and it’s the exception that proves the rule because everyone liked the guy so much fans would probably have rioted had they not eventually caved and made the guy a headliner. Claremont didn’t really want to do it. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Men</span> was a tightly plotted book that didn’t leave the characters room for random side adventures. It was never supposed to be a franchise, it was supposed to be a story. But popular demand in this instance meant constructing a new world from scratch for a guy who was never designed to be anything other than a franchise player. Soon enough that guy had entire alternate lives in exotic places like Japan, Madripoor, and, er, Canada. Eventually he was even on other teams. The fans would have rioted were he not. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, it would be a lie to say that Wolverine was the only X-Man to ever get a real solo push. There’ve been a number of attempts, some sincere, many half-hearted. Cable was another case of the company bowing to genuine demand, and again it sold well enough that they <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">had</span> to eventually give him stuff like his own rogues’ gallery and supporting characters. Gambit has had a few attempts, too, over the decades. But more often than not these series ended up doing one or both of two kinds of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">maintenance,</span> either of the character’s origin or a main book sideplot. Often but not exclusively the same thing. Very much designed to get people who already read <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Men</span> excited for more or less the same thing with a slightly different emphasis. A tried and true tradition stemming back to all the earliest spinoffs: here’s more of what you like, but not quite the same.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Storm is the best example. She’s had a number of miniseries over the years, precious few attempts at something more. None of them sold for beans, despite the genuine enthusiasm creators bring to a legitimately underserved character. They didn’t sell at least partially because these series have been largely devoted to - and have the reputation as being devoted to - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">maintenance. </span>Despite the best of intentions of many, many people, no one has figured out how to tell a<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> Storm story.</span> Storm has been around for forty five years but her own stories are still X-Men stories in all but name, dealing with shit from her main book. “Lifedeath” could have been a miniseries but it wasn’t. Left to her own devices and without the crutch of working on origins or sideplots Storm is kind of inert. Not because she’s a bad character, or that she <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">couldn’t</span> be a solo star - but no one’s yet been able to sell her on her own. Perhaps she was too central to the book for too long for her to stick in peoples’ minds as anything else. Perhaps striking off in a new direction for new adventures couldn’t help but feel forced. Not every character has to be a solo star, mind. Ensemble players are important. A lot of the X-Men are ensemble players, either by intention or accident. Maybe Storm tries real hard not to do superhero stuff on her days off. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In any event I know what Wolverine does on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">his</span> day off. He’s got a whole Santa’s list of shit to get up to and people on whom to make stabby when he’s not <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">being something for someone else. </span>Which maybe wasn’t the case when they first started telling Wolverine solo stories, which tended for a good many years towards repetitive use of generic gangsters, terrorists, and ninjas. It certainly is now that he’s got a whole shelf of bad guys and supporting character with no connection to the X-Men. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You didn’t expect me to actually . . . <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">begin at the beginning,</span> did you? Silly rabbit. You knew what you were getting when you clicked on the link. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. The first Rogue series was less a product of genuine groundswell of demand than Marvel’s desire to increase the size of their line and squeeze out competition during a market contraction. That’s what Marvel does, and what they have always done: regard the comic book market as finite terrain to be conquered by suffocating the competition off the racks. Racks which were then actively disappearing, as most grocery stores had figured out comics are a finicky line that sells poorly under the absolute best of circumstances. In boom times Marvel sells more comics than the other guys by pushing the other guys off the racks, and in bust times they sell more comics than the other guys by pushing the other guys out of business. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What does it all mean? Rogue is pretty much my favorite comic book character. She wasn’t really, however, when I was a kid - I happened to start reading <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> right when she got written out of the main story for a couple <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">years. </span>Think about that! One of the franchise’s marquee characters, gone through the dang old Siege Perilous and disappeared for what seemed like an eternity but was really a little less than a year and a half. During that span every other letter on the letters’ page seemed to ask about Rogue. She was <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">a presence</span>.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">She returned in issue #269 after having disappeared in #247, which - owing to the yearly switch to biweekly shipping for the summer months - covered about fourteen months in real-world time. early Summer 1989 to late Summer 1990. Even after her memorable return in the Savage Land, she didn’t reunite with the main team until Spring of the next year, during the Muir Isle saga that serves as Claremont’s last hurrah on the series (barring the inevitable slightly <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">less</span> beloved returns, plural). By the time the deck was reshuffled for <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> #1 in Summer of 1991 she was in her iconic yellow & green bodysuit with the bomber jacket. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now, we should be up front about this, because I respect you too much to lie to you: I am a true blue fan of Rogue but I am not a fan of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue & Gambit.</span> By the time I really got to see Rogue in real time - not, that is, in the pages of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Classic X-Men,</span> which was soon to be running her first run of Paul Smith appearances from the early 80s - she was sort of Different. Than she had been. I dunno, cuddly? The sharp edges were gone. Internal conflict and mental illness were deemphasized, owing to the fact that not everyone picked up on Claremont’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">extremely obvious</span> subtext. Neither did most of his successors possess a fraction of his insight into either human psychology, nor the art and skill of exploring these complex topics in superhero comics. Nor frankly did they care. Rogue was hanging around the mansion cooking up gumbo for Remy, now. This is also the version of the character who the world met on Saturday mornings, more or less. Streamlined. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Her emotional state was a lot less messy.</span> And by now her standard plotlines were either boyfriend or origin related - because of course a woman’s world is all about romance and family obligations. Of course. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’ve been rereading the Claremont run recently - taking my time, reading <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">all</span> the spinoffs and crossovers along the way, even the ones I never bothered with. (Even <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Kitty Pryde & Wolverine</span> for the very first time and for that, dear reader, I deserve a medal.) By the mid 80s there were already a fair amount of books, just considering what Claremont personally wrote. Progress is slow, I’m taking my time in order to not get burned out. It’s a good project to fit into spare moments and the occasional free hour or three, pretty much the extent of my leisure time these past years since I’ve been taking care of my parents. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On a whim I decided to skip around a bit, simply because I get a bit impatient reading about X-Men who aren’t Rogue, and the fact is that regardless of how much you or I might wish otherwise there <i>are</i> characters besides Rogue in the book who might want panel time. I remembered buying the first <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue</span> series as it came out, I wanna say I got that one right at the grocery store in town which was still in the last gasp of pretending comics sold, probably because there was still at least one person who still bought comics there every week. But I didn’t remember anything about it, other than who drew it, Mike Wieringo.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Interesting factoid: this series was Wieringo’s first work for Marvel. Coming off a hot run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Flash</span> - </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>- HA! “Hot </i>run<i> </i><i>on The Flash!” That’s a keeper. See, </i><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">this</span><i> is what I missed. I missed you guys. Come on, everyone in for </i><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">a big ol’ hug -</span><i> </i></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- coming off a hot run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">The Flash,</span> Wieringo stopped by Marvel for <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue</span> before heading back across town for <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Robin</span>. In hindsight you really want something as significant as Mike Wieringo’s first Marvel work to be good. To be something <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">worthy</span> of such a giant taken from us absurdly, shockingly early. He’s even being inked by Terry Austin - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Terry Fuckin Austin!</span> I can’t imagine there’s a bigger rush for any artist drawing the X-Men than being inked by <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Terry Fuckin Austin -</span> and your first time up, no less. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But then I opened the book and saw the reason why I didn’t remember anything about it: this was actually kind of terrible. For reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with Wieringo, I should add, and actually kind of make you resent him being wasted on such a nothing. The fact is that there is no reason why Mike Wieringo drawing Rogue has to be bad. I would go so far as to say you’d have to work hard to fuck up that combo. You’d have to get up pretty early in the morning indeed.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So let’s start at the beginning, with a great shot of Rogue in her natural element and doing what she loves best, that is, giving the business to the US military. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVhfdhyvJ1nzVi942VR5Qw6Sn7Lgc1PvcG83eYqCDdsN6D6njzHEFqiJdCQNgKpaz_fdThQl57vign_9JqkWO4r0mwRjBeLCaYQHV0FW08faJgNqu8BIJ_8q6_AyAm6WvdpB4/s1844/0519BC3A-8CF3-41A3-B6CF-FAFEE12F33B7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rogue Splash page" border="0" data-original-height="1844" data-original-width="1328" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVhfdhyvJ1nzVi942VR5Qw6Sn7Lgc1PvcG83eYqCDdsN6D6njzHEFqiJdCQNgKpaz_fdThQl57vign_9JqkWO4r0mwRjBeLCaYQHV0FW08faJgNqu8BIJ_8q6_AyAm6WvdpB4/w460-h640/0519BC3A-8CF3-41A3-B6CF-FAFEE12F33B7.jpeg" title="awww ain’t she just the most adorable thing" width="460" /></a></div>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have read many Howard Mackie comics. Did I seek them out because he wrote them? I did not. He wrote a metric ton of Spider-Man and X-Men comics. Why did he write them? Did he enjoy writing them? What can one even say about Mackie at this late remove? He is a man who knew how to write stories, stories that were composed of sequences of events depicted in a set order. This can be said, certainly. Often his stories featured characters and plots, sometimes even fight scenes. There was even a brief period in the late 90s where he wrote both flagship <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Spider-Man</span> titles. He wrote hundreds and hundreds of comics which I read because of the name on the cover and not the names in the credit box, and that is why I am going to hell when I die. Because doing that is part of how we find ourselves with this problem in the first place. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The first few pages of the first issue are probably the best passages of the series, because Rogue is smiling and laughing at army guys. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Completely</span> emasculating the Top Gun dudes, everything short of chopping a cucumber in half with a cigar cutter. Fun even if it’s, you know, a carbon copy of an earlier scene from JRJR’s run on <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny.</span> </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So why is Gambit’s ex-wife Belladonna kidnapping Rogue’s people? Well, you see, it’s like this: Rogue had been around for fourteen years at this point and never once received the opportunity to headline a series. Finally, when Marvel was at the height of the panic mode market flooding that immediately preceded - and I mean, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">immediately</span> by only a matter of months - a good chunk of the company being laid off, they deigned to give Rogue a mini. And then when they <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">finally</span> relented to give the sensational character find of 1981 her own series - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">in 1995!</span> - it was devoted primarily to swimming these Augean waters:</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Since we’re being completely honest here: it’s not like they weren’t also on solid ground in devoting her first solo series to her relationship with Gambit. The reason why they pushed the relationship so hard and for so long - <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">long</span> past where I’d argue both characters were hurt - was that it was popular. It was on the cartoon! I was and probably remain in the minority in thinking this. For a lot of fans Rogue & Gambit <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">is</span> Rogue. I’m sorry for that. I really do feel as if we’re talking about two characters. She’s not the same person when she’s with him.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After Claremont left, the X-Men lost their rudder and forward momentum. The period immediately following his absence perhaps represents the books’ nadir, at least in terms of writing. I like to think of it as the “sitting around the X-Mansion waiting for X-Men stuff to happen” period. (Which immediately precedes the “let’s all yell about doctrine!” era that is then followed by the lengthy “oh god we are tapped out, flailing, loopy, hiring people off Craigslist” interregnum, a period I’d argue only really ends with Claremont II.) Rogue suffers more than most from this period because she loses a great deal of autonomy and no small amount of confidence. Then after years cosplaying <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Bad Moonlighting</span> with Gambit they tried to kill the relationship in the worst possible way (by revealing he was, er, complicit in a genocide), then saddled her with Joseph </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and honestly it was somewhere around there I started to lose grip on what was going on. I held on because Alan Davis came back for a bit but boy howdy were those strange comics of which I remember almost nothing at this late date. Except that I bailed when it was revealed Apocalypse had been a little old guy inside a big suit this whole time? Is that still canon? </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Left well before Claremont II. Came back for Morrison but, hey, guess who Morrison didn’t apparently give two shits about? Given how much all those characters were . . . well, let’s be polite and say “altered” - by the events of Morrison’s run, I suppose we should be thankful he never realized the true value of what he held in his hands when handed the keys to the franchise. By then Rogue was once again back with Claremont, in the pages of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Extreme X-Men</span>. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway. I should stress that it’s not even that I dislike Gambit. On the contrary, I remember Gambit from before he even met Rogue, and he started great. He was a fun character when he was bopping around the Southeast with “Stormy.” There’s a big opening on the stands for a distaff Catwoman type - think about it, great archetype that is <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">completely</span> underserved in comics. You can’t always tell fun Gambit stories, though, because the guy’s got a lot of baggage. By which I mean all of the continuity involved in <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">this</span> series. Can’t exactly galavant around the globe being an irresponsible cad when you’re a happily married man, or when your ex is still actively trying to kill everyone you know. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because - can I just say? All the things that could make Gambit a great character make him a terrible boyfriend. They would have both been better served by keeping separate and maintaining a flirty banter thing. As it is, they are a great example of a relationship where two seemingly cool people just end up sapping all the life from each other. He <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">could</span> be fun, but his most famous stories aren’t fun. It’s stuff like dealing with his ex, or making a deal with Apocalypse (like a whiny little shit). Not that people haven’t tried. Doesn’t seem to take. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Don’t get me started here.</span> I never liked the relationship. From the very beginning of the courtship I knew who he was, recognized the type from a mile off: the kind of weaselly pest who falls for a woman and then becomes absolutely relentless in the face of repeated and clear refusals. That’s something media <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">tells</span> us is supposed to be charming, is supposed to be a sure fire recipe for romantic success, but which is in actuality <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">one of the biggest red flags in the universe.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another giant red flag? How about when you’re just starting to get interested with someone, like, say, in the very first days of a flirtation, and then their ex-wife shows up and tries to kill you. Would that count as a red flag? Because that happened. It turned out that his ex-wife was affiliated with something called the “Assassin’s Guild.” And Rogue, God bless her, looked at that situation and said, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">yes, I want the dirty Cajun man who was previous married to the Kate Gosselin of Murder, this is the absolute best I can ever do. Despite being by common consent among the most beautiful women on the planet, </span>this right here<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> is the tallest shelf for which I am </span>ever<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"> going to reach.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And to be fair, it’s not like Remy doesn’t love Rogue. We see this very clearly here, in a scene following Cody being kidnapped and Rogue taking off to save him. Plainly, his concern for his girlfriend in her moment of crisis is strong enough to inspire him to stop chatting up other women on the way down to save his girlfriend from his homicidal ex-wife:</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, eh. The story occurs. Events transpire. Rogue makes her way down to confront Belladonna. On her way, it must be noted in passing, she consults a genuine magical negro: </p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkOyx_mx-shxQmLt97QVB2YdqU_3-FFekcdhW-0fxPPldevccZsmJbwN9UCKPIlfKIxhqgBMqEglVMVSSnVm7cfOrxX5sAEtg8Jj1qpvX-58TbKH5TwrNOC0kyZWwltJ-bJxQ/s1940/E30BE17F-CEB0-41D7-9FC1-F89FF3E05411.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tropes ahoy" border="0" data-original-height="1940" data-original-width="1290" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkOyx_mx-shxQmLt97QVB2YdqU_3-FFekcdhW-0fxPPldevccZsmJbwN9UCKPIlfKIxhqgBMqEglVMVSSnVm7cfOrxX5sAEtg8Jj1qpvX-58TbKH5TwrNOC0kyZWwltJ-bJxQ/w426-h640/E30BE17F-CEB0-41D7-9FC1-F89FF3E05411.jpeg" title=">indistinct muffled howling<" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Oh, and before we move on, I should point out I gasped when I ran across this outfit: </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJns-NnJUQqoo9L_jghYBGuuKStjiDO7EIi7KiTNjRm6x6zFT4xFAvlbSIn9v-eRZVbQUS1nHG620c40sQmgKgbOwAIHzpwWITYC3J5UVDjNLfzYsG5DektwXt4ymGm0yaeuHz/s1169/6599E151-2939-4F2E-AA3A-2BAA05E28719.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Bad clothes" border="0" data-original-height="1169" data-original-width="574" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJns-NnJUQqoo9L_jghYBGuuKStjiDO7EIi7KiTNjRm6x6zFT4xFAvlbSIn9v-eRZVbQUS1nHG620c40sQmgKgbOwAIHzpwWITYC3J5UVDjNLfzYsG5DektwXt4ymGm0yaeuHz/w314-h640/6599E151-2939-4F2E-AA3A-2BAA05E28719.jpeg" title="oh my god it’s the 90s" width="314" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I had an instant Proustian recollection of the mid 90s, when this was the state issued uniform of every young woman in the country. Seriously. You can practically hear the opening strains “I’ll Make Love to You” coming out of the headphones attached to their Discman.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">She loses her powers and has to fight Belladonna. She gets stabbed but still pulls out the W. Of course she does. She’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue</span>. Now, it’s worth noting that if this had been the Rogue of 1985 this would have been a much shorter comic that would have ended with Belladonna spitting out half her teeth and possibly losing part of her spleen. But, you know. 1995 was a bit of a dippy drip but she still got shit done when she had to. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Key to Rogue’s character, in my eye, is the fact that she actually doesn’t benefit all that much from being an X-Man. On the contrary, after a certain point I think the X-Men represent an unhealthy family dynamic for many members. Rogue came to the team for one specific reason - to get help with her powers, in order to try to be able to live a normal life, or some semblance of one. Well, she didn’t really get that. It’s actually kind of a recurring theme for the character, that being an X-Man takes a toll, she gives a lot more than she gets and she needs time away to recharge her batteries. Alone among latter day X-writers Mike Carey understood two very true things: that the X-Men as a concept work best as Rogue’s supporting characters, but that being on the team isn’t actually very good for Rogue. Like, at all. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">She broke free from one charismatic narcissistic leader just to fall into the lap of another (and then had a lot of sex with a third, because she’s Rogue and Rogue does whatever she wants). She managed to outgrow having surrounded herself with charismatic cult leaders without becoming a charismatic cult leader herself - apparently a real workplace hazard for X-Men? Did all this while also having regularly scheduled psychotic breakdowns.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But the best they could think to do with Rogue in the early 90s was to give her a boyfriend. And it’s not like that would have been bad on its own if it hadn’t become, you know, <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">her entire character</span>. Boyfriends are fine. When boyfriends new and old are all you got to talk about, however, you need a new writer.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Perhaps it didn’t occur to anyone that Rogue’s last solo adventure in the Savage Land - you know, the one where she’s having lots of sex with Magneto - was effectively a “back door pilot” for a Rogue solo book that was probably never even a consideration. I’d argue that by that point, 1990 or so, she was better positioned after a decade or so of existence than Wolverine was at the equivalent point in his career, when he got spun out for his first mini. Perhaps I’m the only person in the world who thinks so, which is a perfectly reasonable assertion. She could have joined the Avengers a lot earlier than she did - although, considering who was writing <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Avengers</span> by the mid-90s, it’s probably for the best she didn’t.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2iY4WQHoVnA4LaH7q4EQh49UJ6oz9q3_R0plyftNSdEuL8OIn0KXZBUGqMX2bR2EVqgdedYbJY0HsVXI7XjeEZ4PloaODvXqtRxop7wFZkYHWNRwb4oqC-QFSLu1rhTz1uyM/s632/35291EAD-1178-42C8-9F1E-3EA5D7276312.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="This is a new one ..." border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="453" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2iY4WQHoVnA4LaH7q4EQh49UJ6oz9q3_R0plyftNSdEuL8OIn0KXZBUGqMX2bR2EVqgdedYbJY0HsVXI7XjeEZ4PloaODvXqtRxop7wFZkYHWNRwb4oqC-QFSLu1rhTz1uyM/w458-h640/35291EAD-1178-42C8-9F1E-3EA5D7276312.jpeg" title="absolutely adorable" width="458" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So where does that leave us? As I said, the credit box tells a whole story in and of itself. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That story begins not in 1995 but 1984. That was the year Bob Harras and Howard Mackie both began at Marvel as Assistant Editors - Harras under Ralph Macchio, Mackie under Mark Gruenwald. Mackie stepped away from editorial to freelance full-time in 1991. He had no shortage of work for the subsequent decade. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Harras eventually became editor of <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Men </span>and all its subsidiaries, then the most popular books in the industry. Jim Shooter left the company in 1987. After Tom DeFalco took the reigns as Editor in Chief there commenced the first stirrings of a years-long power struggle between the books’ main writer and their upstart artists, with Harras stuck in the ostensible middle. Harras alone was left standing at the X-office after this period of turmoil. DeFalco for all his virtues simply wasn’t the imposing figure Shooter had been, able to ride herd over creative whim and editorial fiat alike by force of personality, for better or for worse. By 1993 with Shooter long gone, DeFalco more or less sympathetic, and neither Claremont nor the Image founders left, no one remained to impede Harras’ vision regarding the necessary and ruthless expansion of the franchise. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It should be noted Harras remained on good terms with the Image boys, by the way. They all made money together, for a long time to come. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rogue was created by Claremont and Michael Golden in 1981 and served as one of the team’s mainstays for most of the 80s. He developed the character considerably, from a troubled and unpredictable powerhouse with only a very brittle mastery of her own moods, to someone far more measured, confident, and powerful (if still <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">extraordinarily</span> impatient). Perhaps Claremont ran out of ideas after a while, as he tended with characters who were written out for extended periods, and as was more or less healthy for the book. She still had a recognizable character arc and grew enormously.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then he was gone. Whatever peculiar alchemy Claremont used to breathe life into these smudges of ink on newsprint left with him. It was the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">voices,</span> you see, the voices of those characters that lived primarily in his head but whose adventures he occasionally recounted for the rest of us. When he left those voices left with him. Vivid characters were replaced with standardized characterization. Occasionally in the years since I’ve heard those voices, or echoes again - but never as consistently, as holistically.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rogue is a tough one in that regard. Her most popular characterization, I have always thought, was considerably out of character. And I don’t think anyone else has quite captured her timbre besides Carey. Sometimes she seems like an actor reading lines from a script, but to be fair most of them do if you stick with it long enough. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In 1991 the X-Books relaunched with new, decidedly <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">static</span> status quos. Claremont wrote the first three issues of the adjectiveless <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> before getting <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">the fuck</span> out of Dodge. His last act with Rogue was, essentially, her return to the fold. Then she got a new costume, a spot on the roster of the Blue Team, and Relationship Drama. The fans loved it. That’s a wrap, right? </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The first <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue</span> miniseries shipped in early 1995, which just happened to be the same month that the Age of Apocalypse began. In a period of widespread and remorseless contraction across the industry, defined by painful attrition among retailers, publishers, and readers alike, the alternate universe crossover was a hit. Not <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">just</span> a hit, mind you - a franchise-defining <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">monster.</span> (The shadow of which blockbuster success was soon to eat them alive, but that’s another essay.) When the company fell apart by the middle of the year, it was practically inevitable that the attempted restructuring would replicate Harras’ model, which meant separating each editorial group into independent fiefdoms to be run more or less autonomously from the other. From this it was practically inevitable that the ensuing collapse would leave Harras, once again, in charge of everything.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mike Wieringo wasn’t the only DC mainstay who crossed the street to do work for the X-office. Harras certainly wasn’t unique in actively trying to poach talent from the competition - that’s part of an editor’s job, more or less, within reason. What was unique was the rate at which his office repulsed talented creators from elsewhere in the industry. Wieringo did a handful of assignments for Marvel through the end of the 90s but only one more X-Men assignment, 1998’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">X-Men</span> 1/2. Wieringo’s <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Flash</span> collaborator Mark Waid had a very similar reaction when he very briefly wrote for the franchise around the same time. From comments made by a range of creators, from Waid and Peter David through even to disaffected X-office regulars like Fabian Nicieza, it doesn’t seem like it was a very fun place to work if you weren’t one of the handful of men who actually decided what was going to happen in any of the books. People were treated poorly. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And what does this way of making comics get you? It gets you comics like <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue,</span> featuring characters everybody loves being drawn by some of the best artists in the industry, starring in poorly told stories conceived and executed in the most cynical manner possible, and plugged so intimately into so baroque a continuity as to be more or less unintelligible six months after being printed. It was the same <i>kind</i> of package that Claremont had pioneered only, you know . . . without his understanding of what did and did not justify the readers’ time and patience. Nothing kills a franchise faster than immaterial spinoffs. It reads as plainly mercenary despite the excellent art. Within just a couple years of Harras taking over the EIC position almost everything Marvel published was leaning in this direction. It is in this context - and <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">only</span> this context - that Joe Quesada could ever have been considered wise, but he was certainly wise inasmuch as he recognized when he took over the company at the <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">fin de siecle</span> that the best way to make comics was the opposite of how Bob Harras made them. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Wieringo died in 2007 of heart problems, aged only forty four. Shockingly close to my age now. He was really good at drawing Rogue, I wish he’d drawn the character for fifty issues. <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue</span> was edited by Lisa Patrick. She started at Marvel in the early 90s, worked as Harras’ assistant. She has no credits past 1995. I don’t have to look to know why she lost her job. Dana Moreshead moved on from coloring to eventually became the company’s Director of Creative Services & Special Projects, before leaving for to work as Stan Lee Media’s Vice President of Creative Services and Brand Management, a position I’m sure he still holds today. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So how then are we even to live, now, with full and terrible knowledge of what we have lost? </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The loss can’t be quantified. Mark Gruenwald died in 1996, from an undiagnosed heart problem that was almost certainly exacerbated by the stress of his last years at the company he loved, as he saw it systematically hollowed out by the true heirs of Martin Goodman. He never got to write for Mike Wieringo, which seems like something that <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">really</span> should have happened. They just passed each other in the hall, turned out. Maybe they caught up later. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The loss extends from the tragic to the relatively trivial - from lives derailed by lost careers to something as slight a sin as bad comic books. Every bad comic <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">could</span> have been good. Every piece of shit hacked out by lifers could have been a rookie’s breakthrough or a veteran’s masterpiece. How many good comics did we lose? How many great characters? How many new <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">cash cows for multinational corporations,</span> even, have we lost because people were treated like shit and left, or couldn’t even find the door? Incalculable. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And that leaves us, ultimately, back with <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Rogue</span>. There’s no reason this had to be bad, but it was. The version of the character we meet in these pages is simply less competent, less capable, less complex. Less interesting. The Rogue who Claremont created didn’t shortchange herself. She learned self-respect which was subsequently taken from her. She deserved so much better than she got. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Ultimately I can’t get past the part where their “romance” was premised on the notion that creeps who repeatedly violate explicit boundaries of consent to get what they want are really quite endearing if you give them a chance. I guess that just wasn’t a red flag for anyone else in the office. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was all right there, on the page. If we had only seen. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwM8yGgRxLiEFQdmYNeYAE6tj3qotFpThKMTRTjuGrficcv0tEg__dEEzTnjGl7D8FSyD-L5KajmRsGXsMIOeiGmShmdVBZlJRcyXj-a-C_RweSX1UKw4qxTOI0TSOy-uxFHV/s1078/E2EE523D-91AA-419D-A29B-3435DA7F30DD.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rogue getting ready to hit something" border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="688" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwM8yGgRxLiEFQdmYNeYAE6tj3qotFpThKMTRTjuGrficcv0tEg__dEEzTnjGl7D8FSyD-L5KajmRsGXsMIOeiGmShmdVBZlJRcyXj-a-C_RweSX1UKw4qxTOI0TSOy-uxFHV/w408-h640/E2EE523D-91AA-419D-A29B-3435DA7F30DD.jpeg" title="We are too, sugah." width="408" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-10999360342561834722019-12-11T08:00:00.000-05:002019-12-11T08:00:24.320-05:00The Hurting Reliquary<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The problem is that the </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Sampler</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> was conceived as an introduction to my work. As such it was fairly easy for me to put together a nicely sized volume of stand-alone essays, along with a few odds and ends that I felt were in some way representative. The </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Reliquary</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> would require a more exhaustive survey. I had to change a lot of formatting from old blog posts. I had to track down the original text files for a couple dozen old AV Club articles. I had to decide which reviews from a roughly five year period were worth preserving and which were unnecessary. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The process of tracking down rarities for the next-to-last section of the book entailed going back through basically every text file I had opened for the last decade. It sounds tedious, and it kind of was, but I wouldn’t have found half of that section if I’d relied on my faulty memory. And, oh, surprisingly tracking down those presentation documents was the hardest part, as I apparently used no organizational system whatsoever for anything for the entire period I was in grad school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">So here we are, and <a href="https://www.patreon.com/the_hurting_"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">the finished product is ready for download from my Patreon.</span></a> It’s around 183,000 words long, which is significantly longer than I thought it was going to be. I’ve got a collection of A. J. Liebling called </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Just Enough Liebling,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> so in my head I’ve taken to calling this one </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Too Much Tegan.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> It is certainly far more Tegan than you ever thought possible.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">It was my most sincere desire to create a finished product that would make sense as well as appeal to anyone who’s been reading this blog for any amount of time. I made a conscious decision with the </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Sampler</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> not to include any reviews, which excluded a large part of what I had ever written for the blog. But that restriction no longer applied, and there were some judgement calls about which reviews might be of genuine interest to prospective readers who wouldn’t have read all or any of these books, and which were, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">er,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> of less deathless literary merit. I don’t think, ultimately, I left out anything that any reader would miss if I left it by the wayside. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">As I said, this book is available right this moment on my Patreon, for the price of a measly $2 subscription. Considering there are, like, eight or nine other books available for download immediately</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"> for the same dang price,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> that really doesn’t seem so unreasonable. New chapters of </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Hardin</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> will go up periodically for $5 subscribers, as well as hopefully some of the music essays I’ll be writing soon. Putting together the </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Reliquary</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> was a necessary distraction in a time when real-life concerns. I didn’t necessarily have the wherewithal to focus on extended bouts of typing, but hopefully it will prove a substantial enough meal. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> I kid, but not really. This period of my life roughy corresponds to the first two-thirds of my grad school career. As such most of my writing time was spent at work as a teacher or for school. My output for the blog was produced furtively and with conscious awareness of how little spare time I had. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> Still and all, this is a healthy pile of stuff, especially considering I already skimmed much of the cream for the </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Sampler. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Combined with the rest of the present volume, it’s hard for me to justify the belief that I was actually all that unproductive even through a relatively fallow period in my public output. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> Ten years is a long time. I don’t remember my thought process for many of these. In hindsight it can be fun to retrace my path. I was a different person, figuratively and literally, and was going through a particularly weird patch of my life. Not entirely unrelated, those things. Some of this - OK, a </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">lot</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> of this stuff is harsher than I would be comfortable with today. Invective has a time and a place and that place is your early thirties. There are more subtle ways of sticking the knife, you learn. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> The first piece in this collection still makes me laugh. I wrote a poem about Cable. Because it seemed like a good idea at the time. My recollection is that the idea lingered for months before I made good on it. I’m happy it leads off this section.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> The next pair of pieces may take a bit of explaining. Almost ten years ago DC put out a really, really bad event called </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Cry for Justice.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> It’s on the Universe app if you really feel like reliving one of the worst Justice League adventures since Snapper sold out the team to the Joker. These comics were offensively bad in a way I couldn’t at the time and still cannot fathom. It makes sense only if you trace a straight line back to </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Identity Crisis</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and forward to </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Heroes in Crisis,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and in doing so can see how the company always learns the wrong lessons from misguided attempts at tragedy porn. It never works. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Never.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> “Nineteen Thoughts About </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Avengers” </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">was my honest reaction to the strange and intense sensation of seeing that first </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Avengers</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> movie. I still think it’s a good movie, especially so considering it was stuck using some of the least interesting iterations of these characters. An odd and portentous film for the decade that followed.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> From here on out there’s a </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">lot </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">of yelling at Marvel. In hindsight I can say that the last twenty years have seen a profound transformation on the part of that company. It was a distressing transformation to see, and a calamitous one for the quality and endurance of their line. I don’t necessarily remember a lot about the contours of stories like </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">AvX</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> or </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Age of Ultron</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> at this later date, but I enjoyed reading my spleen about them. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> Somewhere in there is a brief essay on the subject of motivation which honestly puzzles me. I don’t know if I agree with all of it anymore. It’s succinct, however, which remains a virtue. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> The sequence climaxes with twin jeremiads against Marvel’s </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Age of Ultron</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and DC’s </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Trinity War.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> Somewhere along the line both companies lost me and this is where I think I kind of snapped. Everything from roughly here was just me coming to terms with the loss of everything the companies had been, even when they were terrible. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> One of my biggest pet peeves, and one which I find so enduringly frustrating because of its ubiquity and acceptance, is “deconstruction” as applied to a certain mode of superhero comics. Everyone knows what books I’m talking about. It’s become accepted critical shorthand in comics for both a timeframe and a microgenre. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> The problem is that this definition of</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">deconstruction has very little to do with </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">actual</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> deconstruction, as practiced by Derrida. Of course, he almost never actually referred to deconstruction as a mode of criticism, but more as an exercise in critical thought. (He did in one interview with a translator, once, describe it as a method.) Now, it is worth pointing out that even in the circles of academia and philosophy, there’s not really a lot of agreement on just what deconstruction actually is or was. There’s a lot of confusion, some of it intentionally pejorative on the part of people who don’t care for his writing. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> But I quite like Derrida. I think he had important things to say, and its unfortunate for his accessibility that part of his literary project was involved in purposefully obscuring his own concepts. The journey is part of the goal, in his case. However there are certain surface aspects of his work that can be readily parodied, and that is what I have done here, with complete affection. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> The easiest way to understand how a writer thinks is to figure out how they wrote what they wrote. This is no less true for Derrida. I remember I learned more about him from writing these few pages in his “voice” than I had for the first years I read him. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> There’s good writing here, even if still journeyman work. I spent my twenties learning how to write reviews, and then in my thirties I got sick of the conventions and spent half a decade blowing them up. I’m glad I eventually settled on a more comfortable rhythm, but these pieces - with all their spleen and invective - were a necessary step to getting there. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> Despite my initial worries as to whether or not there would be enough good material for a healthy chunk of a book, I had no problem at all filling a significant stack of pages. There were still a few pieces I left by the wayside which could have been included. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> The first of these is a longer piece on Dave Sim and </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Cerebus</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> that I spent a while somewhere in the last five or six years trying to hammer into a cohesive finished project. It was based on a series of blog posts around 2012 or 13. Looking back over it briefly in the preparation of this volume I remembered why it had never seen the light of day. It took too long to make points that possibly weren’t worth making, much like </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Cerebus</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> itself. I spent a lot of it dancing around the fact - which maybe wasn’t quite so obvious then as now - that Sim’s reactionary turn was an ideological journey made by many in and around his age cohort over the last couple decades. He was a forerunner there, and in the fullness of time that is less interesting than just sad.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> On a far lighter note, I would have liked to include a section specifically devoted to my </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Secret Wars</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> posts. There were two distinct series, one looking at goofy </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Secret Wars II</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> crossovers and another later run devoted to explicating the roots of Jonathon Hickman’s </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Secret Wars.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> I love these pieces but they were conceived </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">as</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> blog posts, meaning that they rely a great deal on illustrations from the comics themselves (tho it should be noted many of those pictures have themselves disappeared from the blog over time due to linkrot). The same can be said for my </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Legends of the Dork Knight</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> series. These would all need to be substantially rewritten before being collected. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">. . . ah, shit, you know how it is. Might fuck around and put something or other on the blog.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">So I’ve called you all together today for a reason, and said reason would be: the announcement of the conclusion of one era of this blog, and perhaps a nod towards the next. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In the first place, I am overjoyed to announce today that </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Zeroes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> is finished. It ended up representing probably about twice as much of my life and the life of this blog as originally conceived. It ended up being not such a bad thing, really, as the circumstances which led to the elongation of the project were the same circumstances that made it almost impossible to imagine doing else regularly in terms of posting. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Zeroes </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">was a way to keep the blog at least semi-coherent during an era when I knew regular posting was otherwise going to be a bit of a stretch.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">It was also designed for <a href="https://www.patreon.com/the_hurting_" target="_blank">the Patreon,</a> as something that could be compiled as a book and given to subscribers, which is where it is right this moment: for the price of a subscription fee of $1, you can download an ebook of the whole thing, instantly. As in, right now. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">That’s the same price - a scant $1 - that gets you ebooks of </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always The Best Day Of My Life</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> and</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;"> Whistling in the Dark: A (Very) Short Book About They Might Be Giants</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">. Which, I mean, maybe seems kind of low, until you remember it adds up to $12 a year, and even if you do nothing else, that’s basically two whole books and another small booklet for $12. You’d pay that in the store!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">There’s a lot more you can get for $2 a month, however . . . including fiction. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Ever new issue of </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">The Hurting Gazette</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> features two chapters of fiction and one nonfiction feature. For the whole of the magazine’s existence - all sixteen issues - the last feature (besides links to my </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Journal</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> writing) has been </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Zeroes.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> Now that that is done I’m not going to nail down the last section as being any one thing. I can tell you that I hope the next issue has a music essay in it. It’s not going to be the first chapter of anything but itself, and it might be like that for the foreseeable future. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The thing about the Patreon is that even if it updates fitfully, there’s actually </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">a lot</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> behind the paywall, enough so that I know not many people have probably read everything yet. There’s literally like eight or nine books worth of stuff up there in various formulations. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">And this blog post here is meant to announce not just the end of </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Zeroes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> - and that book being available in its entirety on my Patreon - but also hopefully the return to something more resembling actual posting. Like I know I’ve been threatening to do but - gosh dang, I really would like to get back to something resembling regular posts. I mean, I spent a couple years building a backlog of stuff for the Patreon, maybe at some point I should write something pithy about old superhero comic books. You know, for purely mercenary reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">For a long time my life was in a state of flux, and it made sense to use the blog more for serializing extended works - which, I know, meant people didn’t have to check in that frequently, so they got out of the habit. But now that my life is, if not I more stable in fact, at least more stable in intention, maybe I might just, you know, one of these days talk some shit about Batman, as one does.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">But, can I just say, they turned the power off for almost two days up here? PG&E ain’t winning any friends or influencing people in the state of California. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The first thing I’m going to do is give you two brief synopses of different pieces of Star Wars ancillary media. You might recognize the stories, you might not, but both Star Wars - albeit separated on release by under a decade. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The first story is a war story. It’s about a squad who begin to suspect that their new C.O. is intentionally crafting strategy to deliver the highest possible casualty rate. Turns out after further investigation that he isn’t </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">just</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> purposefully ordering the men to their deaths in impossible engagements, </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">but</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> he’s doing so because he’s a bigot who thinks the troops, being of a different extraction, deserve to die, and die bloody. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The squad had already been having doubts about not just the engagement, but the war. Force-fed a steady diet of nationalistic propaganda since the moment of birth, they’ve had to overcome years of hard conditioning to get to the point where they could see not </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">just</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> that the war was starting to drive good men bad, but that the </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">way</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> they were being driven mad also implied, </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Fast forward a couple years. The kid, he’s really not that bright but after a couple years he figures out two things: they’re never gonna let a grunt like him fly a plane, and absolutely everything they’re doing is not only pointless but actively evil. You kind of wish the two things didn’t weigh equally in his head, but some people are just like that. He does the right thing . . . </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">eventually.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> He figures out that its easier to live with yourself as (sort of) honest outlaw than as mindless pawn in the imperial war machine. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Alright, did you recognize the plots? The first was from 2011, a four episode arc in the fourth season of </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">The Clone Wars,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and the second from 2018 - </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Solo: A Star Wars Story.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Neither are the first objects to pop into anyone’s head when the they think “Star Wars.” The cartoon is well-loved by those who remember it but also ran on cable on a kids network, circumstances such that even many Star Wars fans only rediscovered the show in hindsight. I’ve recommended it to people who swear up and down that they can’t stand Star Wars, only to see it become the exception. I think it’s probably the single best incarnation of Star Wars, even if it’s few peoples’ favorites, in the same way that you can make a very credible argument that </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Deep Space Nine</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> is the best Trek, despite it holding few cultural recognizable iconic sequences or characters. It’s the one that takes the formula further than its ever been in a way that allows it to scale new and different heights. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Clone Wars</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> arc in question, beginning with the episode “Darkness on Umbara” and ending with “Carnage of Krell,” is all about how the clone soldiers introduced in Episode II start to realize just how pointless their engagement has been. It’s a realization that never completely arrives. In no time at all the war would be over: with Order 66 the clone soldiers were turned into brainwashed assassins against their former friends and leaders. Although the cartoons are very chary about describing </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">precisely</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> what happened to the clones at the conclusion of the Clone War, the heavy implication from the events of </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Rebels</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> is that most of them mustered out after the war rather than continue to serve the Empire. Some of them were probably unable to live with themselves as a result of the war and Order 66. </span></div>
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<span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Solo</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> suffered greatly from a number of things that had little to do with the actual movie itself. For some reason they moved it to the Spring, just a few months after </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">The Last Jedi.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> People thought it was being rushed out, and in truth it kind of was - but the finished product actually bore few scars of its tempestuous birth. It’s fairly normal for Star Wars movies to have rough nativities and still end up completely watchable. It’s a good movie that got marketed like the company itself wasn’t that fond. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The most important aspect of a Star Wars story is that the premise has to be played precisely straight. Whatever else is going on onscreen, there’s never a moment where the stakes of the world don’t make complete sense within that world. What do I mean by that? </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Things in Star Wars get to make sense on their own terms or not at all. There are no dangling thematic threads for the viewer to parse - no point where any of the performers wink to the viewers, as if to say, </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">boy, this is sure some crazy stuff, folks!</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> Or even,</span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"> see, this is a metaphor, that’s why it’s a glowing green orb! </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">If you can’t understand why that’s significant you haven’t seen enough of the sci-fi that preceded </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Star Wars.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> It was a genre known for its fondness for broad allegory. One of Lucas’ great insights was recognizing if you built a world that looked and smelled more like 70s downers like </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Silent Running</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and Lucas’ own </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">THX-1138,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and less like a broadcast studio, it might carry more dramatic heft as a vehicle for adventure. (One oft-unsung precedent: 1974’s </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Dark Star, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">also one of my mom’s favorite movies.)</span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Why is any of this important? It relates back to a phenomenon of the last decade or so, wherein Harry Potter became </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">lingua Franca</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> for a certain segment of the population, in terms of political memes and metaphors. In order to find the stress points in a story you have to look at how people actually </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">use</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> that story, live with it, turn it into something of value in their lives. People latch onto Harry Potter because the stakes make sense, sure, and they love the characters - but the </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">world</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> doesn’t make sense, and trying to graft pieces of an only partially coherent universe onto our own for the purposes of allegory really only highlights the shortcomings of said fiction while misleading those who partake. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">By contrast, Star Wars, despite being just as culturally ubiquitous, has passed its point of saturation in terms of the language. People pick random images - Darth Vader is eternally popular, certainly - but people don’t embrace the characters from Star Wars as figures of political rebellion in the same way that, say, Dumbledore’s Army continues to inspire plenty of folks with Harry Potter-centric social media profiles. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">I’ve spent years wondering over the discrepancy. The nearest I have come to understand is that Star Wars, and something eradicable in its heart put there with care by Lucas himself, isn’t actually a metaphor for </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">anything. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Star Wars is filled </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">with</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> metaphors, yes, just as all stories are filled with metaphors, and images, and dialogue and theme. But the world itself isn’t a </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">metaphor</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> for anything, it just exists, on its own terms. Like our own, you might even say. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The books and the movies can’t actually get at the heart of what’s wrong with their universe because their universe was constructed by someone who ultimately didn’t see anything wrong with having most of the characters completely gaslight the reader in regards to the system of chattel slavery which make possible the wizarding world. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">There’s no point in Star Wars where any character with whom the audience is supposed to harbor even a twinge of sympathy is ever seen reflecting on the whys and wherefore of slavery. It’s actually a huge theme in </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">all</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> the movies, but I promise you that you didn’t see it as a kid. What else are Empires </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">for,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> after all, other than to coerce vast populations into doing your bidding free of charge? </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">That sounds like a joke, but it’s not. That’s what empires </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">do</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and are </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">for,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and what they have been for and have done since the beginning of time. Empires are massive resource sinks which exhaust entire populations and environments for the purpose of simply being able to conquer more populations and environments. Fascism propagates itself by convincing new generations that there is nobility or higher purpose in this activity. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">You know the part in </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Star Wars,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> the first one, where Grand Moff Tarkin destroys Alderaan? Of course you do, it’s a great scene. A scene that just happens to show, onscreen, the commission of a planetary-scale genocide. The stakes aren’t metaphors, the stakes are as real for the characters because they’re the same stakes as in our own world: war, annexation, embargo, genocide. No shiny mystical MacGuffins or manufactured quests, just the raw exercise of military power over civilian populations. It’s all right there. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps now you see why most people don’t go to Star Wars for that kind of inspiration. It’s not a story filled with comforting allegories about our world. It’s a story filled with the precise </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">same</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> kind of horrors that we see on the news every day. Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine aren’t metaphors for fascists, they are </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">actually textbook definitions of fascists </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">completely on the terms of their own world. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Which is why it doesn’t happen. Because it’s an insult to real tragedies to compare them to fiction. It’s tempting, perhaps, to use Harry Potter as a metaphor for real world shit, not because it’s accurate but because it’s </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">inaccurate</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> in a way that flatters our biases regarding the normative state of our world. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">There’s an ingratiating nature to stories like Harry Potter. Things go back to square one at the end. But Star Wars never goes back to square one - there </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">is</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> no square one, your parents have been burnt to a crisp by the “peacekeeping” forces stationed across your planet, or blown up, or corrupted. There’s no choice in these stories: you either see the difference between wrong and right, in coercion as a means of social organization vs freedom, or you </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">don’t.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> Trying to go back and rebuild the exact same kind of nuclear family units that will interface with the Procrustean and inherently conservative nature of magic education, in Harry’s case - it seems foolish, when the whole point is that you have to burn it all down to build it back up. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">There’s never a moment of restoration in </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Star Wars</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">. Everyone already acknowledges that the world has changed in such a way that restoration of the mere status quo can never be effectuated. It’s only ever a </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">bad</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> thing to try to get back to the beginning, and the only results are pain and metastasizing cruelty. That’s a goal only a Sith would embrace, and exactly how Palpatine tempts Anakin In Episode III. How he tries to tempt Ezra at the end of </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Rebels.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The satisfaction of a happy ending will forever elude Star Wars. That’s an unexpected gift from the Disney acquisition: the fact that the movies will continue, forever and indefinitely, is the best possible reflection of the core thema. Because </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">of course</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> it never ends. There’s no moment where everyone joins hands to sing “Yub Nub” and celebrate the death of the Emperor and the end of all problems ever, because the fact that we have an Empire in the first place is a symptom of </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">a much larger problem.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> The appeal of authoritarian ideology is evergreen. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">In those early drafts, before the effects were completed or the editing was smooth - before it was apparent just how much work and care was going into making the world of the movie immersive in a way that filmic sci-fi simply hadn’t been before, or rare enough that you can count the precise precedents on two hands - the political subtext must have been </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">really loud.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> All that stuff is right there on the surface of the text, and to be fair it did catch the eye of a few contemporary critics. But the immersive nature of the story papered it over for most audiences - I mean, the Rebel pilots wore orange jumpsuits just like the Cosmonauts did. They weren’t hiding it at all. That soon became harder to see. We </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">wanted</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> to root for the Rebel Alliance. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The trick of Star Wars is not that it </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">isn’t</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> a metaphor or an allegory, it’s that all the metaphors and allegory are so obvious that people who have lived with the movies as parts of their lives for years and decades can completely overlook the metaphors . . . especially, that is, if they don’t understand the recent history of their own country. It’s not a </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">metaphor</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> at all, it’s just the world we live in, the stress points are in the </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">exact</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> same places, and we don’t recognize it or mark the significance because we’re fish who can’t see the water in which we swim.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">The question will be asked, then, in five, and ten, and twenty years, and every interval subsequent through which Star Wars media continues to be made - does Star Wars continue to do justice to its creator? I’m sure eventually there will come a day, when the reins are loosened sufficiently to allow either laziness, experimentation, or both, when Star Wars becomes something different completely even than the wide range of expressions it inhabited during Lucas’ tenure. We’re going to live to see one or more movies or shows from the Empire’s perspective, eventually, for instance, and that could certainly work better or worse depending on how close to Lucas’ blueprints they adhere. Likewise, eventually there will be heroic Sith. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">That’s it. The Walt Disney Corporation broadcasts a message of profound resistance into the homes of viewers across the world. And for all the Jameson and McLuhan I read in grad school, nothing was ever able to convince me that the messages at the heart of our entertainment aren’t important, or are ever masked completely by the financial aspects of sincere fandom. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">And it’s not like Star Wars isn’t complicit in a lot. But, and I think this is important, </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">the message scales.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> The message at the heart of these films, which so far all the money in the world and J. J. Abrams haven’t been able to obscure, is that when the world goes sideways you have to recognize the point when avoiding the fight becomes complicity in empire. And that’s it. If you fail to see the where </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">the fight </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">is, or the point of </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">the fight</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> - well, both </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">The Clone Wars</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Solo,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> for all their respective virtues, understand </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">the fight,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> and it is my deep sorrow and regret to report to you that </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">the fight</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> in this instance is also right outside your window. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">If the messages in these stories didn’t matter, it wouldn’t matter how toxic the gender roles in </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Twilight</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> are, or that Harry’s indifference to the house elves wasn’t a bald-faced self-own on the part of the author. It wouldn’t matter who sat on the Iron Throne or the command chair of the Enterprise. It certainly wouldn’t matter just who stepped out of the TARDIS, or what gender that person may or may not be. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">For what its worth? I should mention that there </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">is</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> another big story out there that, I think, will both stand the test of time and prove ineradicably radical for the generations who have and will grow up reading them. Another story that really </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">does</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> seem to get where the levers of power and corruption rest, or at least closer than most.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">I see a lot of Star Wars tattoos. Rebel insignias are popular - you don’t see </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">as</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;"> many Imperial symbols, and certainly I’ve seen them both on different elbows of the same person. But it’s been long enough, I don’t usually think to ask someone with Rebel Alliance ink whether or not they’d really be, you know, ready for </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">the fight </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">if suddenly they had to be. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">Contrariwise, I don’t see many Mockingjay pins or insignias in 2019. Maybe there’s a reason for that. Good symbols have a way of sticking around - I still occasionally see </span><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Andre the Giant has a posse </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">in the wild, after all. I suspect it might not bode well for the resident authoritarians in our midst if we ever see a popular resurgence of Mockingjays. </span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/03/much-ado-about-nihilus-part-one.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Much Ado About Nihilus - Part One</a></span><span class="s4" style="color: #454545; font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">If This Goes On <span class="s6" style="color: #e4af0a; font-size: 15pt;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/05/if-this-goes-on-i.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">I,</a> </span><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/05/if-this-goes-on-ii.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span class="s5" style="color: #e4af0a; font-size: 15pt;">II</span></a>, <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/06/if-this-goes-on-iii.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span class="s5" style="color: #e4af0a; font-size: 15pt;">III</span></a>, <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/07/if-this-goes-on-v.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span class="s5" style="color: #e4af0a; font-size: 15pt;">IV</span></a>, <a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/07/if-this-goes-on-v.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span class="s5" style="color: #e4af0a; font-size: 15pt;">V</span></a></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So today I would like to talk about hope. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The most harmful lie they ever tell young artists is that rejection isn’t personal. That’s a lie and the people who say it know it’s a lie and live every day with the reality of it being a lie and yet they say it anyway, sending the same bad advice forward generation after generation into the meat grinder attrition of working life as an artist, where every second breath is another rejection. Why do they say it? I don’t know. Never made any sense to me. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Because of course it’s personal. It can never be anything </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">other </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">than personal since there really shouldn’t be anything of any value left besides the work. If there is, that’s a problem. I should know. Don’t waste my time with anything less than everything, and I won’t yours. Because I’m a critic. And there’s no way to </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">ever</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> separate the art from the artist. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">You are going to be dead in one hundred years. </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">What of your life will be remembered in that time? </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">If you found a description of your life in a future textbook would you find yourself a hero or a villain? </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The sky is grey and the sky has been grey for weeks. I’m sneezing all the damn time. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Every rejection hits harder than the last, and that’s the truth, until </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">each </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">progressive rejection hits with the cumulative force of </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">every</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> previous rejection. That’s the truth, and it’s going to </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">remain </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">the truth so long as you put enough of yourself into your work to matter. It’ll only stop hurting when you stop caring and when you sop caring there’s a hole right there in the ground you can crawl into. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s not personal? </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Of course</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> it’s personal. We only get one life, there is no immortal soul ready to cart ourselves off for either an eternal reward or eternal recurrence, it’s just sacks of meat that wheeze and hump a while before falling over sore one morning, so there’s really a lot less reason </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">not </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">to go hard on the paint twenty four seven than you may think. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I called up to the dispensary in Redding, and was honestly surprised that they answered after two rings. Don’t know what I had expected. My question was, </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">do you still exist? </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">To which the answer immediately came, </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">oh yeah, the fire was miles away.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Turns out the fires had already been that far north two years ago. The area around the town was still bare so they were safe from this round. Every freeway overpass between here and there is covered with banners urging support for first responders in general and firefighters in specific.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">As of this writing I have been living with my parents for just over fifteen months. I don’t know how long I was planning on living here when I moved in – I honestly was in no shape to even consider the question. I landed in Vina like a meteor, which means in this instance a massive explosion when I landed which buried me under five feet of dirt. I was still hot to the touch for a long time after I fell. Molten. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I just turned thirty-eight. That’s a pretty normal age for a lot of things, but maybe not so great for continuing your second puberty. Changing the hormonal balance of your body, even when it’s completely desired and completely awesome, is still hard and traumatic. We literally </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">do</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> go through a kind of second puberty as our bodies react to the infusion of proper hormones for the very first time in our lives. In practice this means we get a few random years where we act like teenagers again, which isn’t as fun as it sounds if you consider it’s all the worst parts of being a teenager – all the physiological stuff that goes along with “growing and changing bodies,” etc – only without the luxury of being a kid and not having to pay taxes or vote. So yeah: mood swings, weird reactions to temperature shifts, crying at the drop of a hat, sweating in new and interesting ways . . . all there, all wonderful, all fun. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">For their sins my parents, both</span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;"> long</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> past the point in their lives where they reasonably believed they would ever have to spend any time around teenagers again, have had to essentially raise a teenage girl in her late thirties. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s the evening of April 30</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12.45pt; vertical-align: 3px;"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">, 2016 – 950 days ago as of this writing, a strangely round number plucked from the ether to mark a nonexistent milestone. Two and a half years of change and turmoil, both on a personal and a world-historical scale – the world was so different then. I was, too. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">And maybe that’s what we’re here to talk about today. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Because I’ve been putting this off – these words, this essay, the climax of a strange and difficult book that could only have been written in the throes of a most strange and difficult time. It’s time to move on, to write about something else for a while, to think other thoughts – and I’ve been unwilling to acknowledge that, on some level, because I’ve known that I couldn’t move on until I was done. Until I’d actually finished what I’d started, whether I knew it or not, with “One Hundred and Sixty Four Days.” </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The time has come to stop talking about myself so much, for the very simple reason that I’m not so molten anymore. The die has been cast. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I lied to myself for so long, in the most hurtful and self-defeating ways possible. It’s been a hard thing to begin the process of rebuilding trust with myself – which seems like a strange sentence to write, but it’s more or less an accurate description of the process. I lied to myself about that, and I lied to myself about </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">so </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">many other things. I lied in ways that hurt myself and other people as well. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So you ask yourself – what else did I lie about? If I was lying to myself about something so big as my gender, well, what about . . . well, fill in the blank. Turns out I was. That was hard cheese, I must admit. If we’re being honest. There was a solid year and a half where it seemed like not a month went by without some kind of shattering revelation about past behavior or symptoms. Turns out I was in pretty bad shape right in plain sight for years. It’s a miracle I’m still alive.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">My parents told me when I was very young that the President of the United States was a bad man who did not deserve my respect even if I was required to express obeisance in public. They did not tell me to believe in God or to obey any priest – they taught me to detest organized religion and to greet any overt expression of faith with healthy suspicion. I was however alienated from “movement” atheism very early by what I saw as a kind of insecurity at the heart of any intellectual project predicated solely on rejection. I never believed in God because the idea never once made sense to me, not because I discovered it was cool when I was 17. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Growing up meant being disappointed with everyone my age, even smart kids, for uncritically accepting what they were told about politics and religion by their parents. I think I even worried about the hypocrisy of that position, but I told myself then and now that I agree with my parents because they can sit down and explain to me (as they did periodically when I was a kid) policy differences in terms that both made sense and also – this is most important! – jibed with my understanding of objective reality. They told me to listen and made me read the newspaper and watch the news, and I did these things even when I hated it because (my parents never said explicitly but advertised every day through their own actions) it was our responsibility as citizens, especially given that we were rare liberals who lived in otherwise very conservative rural areas. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">They didn’t tell me to vote Democratic because my family voted Democratic. They voted Democratic because they weren’t greedy authoritarians and since I decided very early that </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">I </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">was no greedy authoritarian either, I would naturally vote for the party that </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">at the very least</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> represented institutional triage against the aggressively anti-human agenda of the greedy authoritarians who walked among us and smiled and pretended to be friendly neighbors but who, I suspected, would actually rat out my parents for smoking weed and get hard when the jackboots arrived. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">That last part is actually quite important, because I also recognized from a young age that there was something partly erotic and partly pathetic in the desire to be a cop and push people around. My mom worked with cops, they weren’t good people. She was wary of and around them and trained me to be as well, from a young age. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Although my parents didn’t normally talk about it in moralistic terms, they essentially told me from a young age that we were ruled by hypocrites and mediocrities who gained their offices either through lying or theft. Evil men who used their offices to multiply the evils of the world beyond number. Worse, our own side was ineffectual on a good day, and positively reactionary on most. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">How is it possible to have any respect for a politics, for a populace, for a </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">country,</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">that can exalt men who used their lives to spread and extend the sum total of human misery? How many far-right coups and fascist dictatorships does one country have to sponsor before enough people see that our own blood and treasure have consistently been suborned as cudgels against any government to the left of Pinochet since </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">literally </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">the moment the guns ceased in the Great War? Certainly before that as well, even if Communism hadn’t yet assumed its place as the great bugbear. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">America </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">has</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> to undercut socialism everywhere because all it would take for the jig to be up from coast to coast is a critical mass of people in </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">this </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">country seeing how great it is that Cuba still has bees. They know it, “they” in this case being anyone who still remembers 1932 as the year America went Red, and why they start ginning up the </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">extra spicy</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> racism and bigotry whenever the grift starts to wear threadbare, which is oh that’s right </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">every time all the time.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I exhale and seasons pass. The shadows between the trees grow short up and down the orchard. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s the evening of April 30</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12.45pt; vertical-align: 3px;"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">, 2016 – 1,025 days ago as of this writing. The Carr Fire in Redding, CA to which I alluded a couple pages back, began on July 23, 2018. Flames from the Camp Fire which destroyed Paradise, CA beginning on November 8, 2018 could be seen from my house on the farm. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Why, you may be asking, have I picked up and put down this same essay so many times over the last half-year . . . almost stubbornly refusing to return to it even after it became obvious that my inability to return to this essay meant every other thing had become delayed?</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So what’s really going on here. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">People don’t understand mental illness. People who write about mental illness for TV and movies don’t often seem to have any real frame of reference for mental illness - or, if they do, its a sympathy borne of seeing the suffering of others, based in personal experience and therefore holy writ. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It's usually neither excessively dangerous nor excessive combustible, merely excessively distressing. It’s not fun. There’s little in all of pop culture that grates on my nerves more than the reflexive portrayal of mentally ill characters as art damaged martyrs of some kind - rife throughout even stories that I like. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">You want to know what being crazy is like? For me at least? I’ve spent a long time trying to figure out how to explain and I think I finally came through:</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Imagine one day if every clock in your house lost an hour. Every night at 10:59:59 when the clock is set to click over to 11:00 PM it skips an hour and goes directly to 12:00 AM. And it’s not </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">just </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">the clocks, you see, well, time works differently in your house. There are only 23 hours in the day in your house. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Except . . . you don’t really know when that happens. It just does. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Maybe sometimes if you’re </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">very </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">careful you can see some of the telltale signs but often only in hindsight. Otherwise you’re just sitting around minding your own business and suddenly something happens that makes you realize, </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">oh shit, my clock is off -</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">but you don’t know when it happened, how long ago, or if anyone has noticed you doing something that implied you somehow had lost an hour. How would people even </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">process</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> something so weirdly specific as that? No one else is walking around losing hours, most people don’t even seem to be aware of the possibility that it’s a thing that could happen, so trying to explain it just gets you looked at funny. Or worse. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">When the people around you see weird </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">effects</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> without understanding the </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">cause,</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">the end result is the unclassifiable weird shit just gets stapled to your forehead. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So you don’t talk to anyone about it. You try to take as many cues regarding time and clocks (if you’re still following the analogy) as you can from the people around you. And doing that, being forced to police not just your every word and deed but the every word and deed of others for some kind of sign that you do not, in fact have three heads but just are </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">having a little trouble keeping track of the time . . .</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">After a while the complications, small at first, stack up. It’s just a little trouble keeping track of time, you think. But everyone depends on clocks, so everyone who interacts on any level knows that there’s something off even if they may not have the words to articulate it. In time you just don’t leave the house any more than necessary. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">What is being crazy like? It’s like walking around with white knuckles from trying trying so hard to hold onto your shit. It’s not </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">fun </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">to lose your grip. It’s not </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">fun</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> to realize you lost an hour and don’t know whether it was a day a week or a month ago. It’s not </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">fun</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> to be undependable, and to realize it’s not actually a value judgment but an accurate description of your reliability.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s not that I can’t tell the difference between real and unreal. It’s that my brain misfires and makes it harder to pluck signal from noise. The campaign against treasonous thoughts makes us double agents against our every impulse.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So it’s not so fun. I am bipolar and it shades every single interaction I have with another human being whether I am cycling or stone sober, to a degree I’d say is more vexing even than gender. The degree to which my ability to get through the day unencumbered by hassle has a lot more to do with me keeping my composure than anything else. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Sometimes I resent people because I don’t know how to ask for help, and it’s the worst feeling in the world. I’m sorry. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">This is the grand roaring climax of the book that I started writing specifically because I wanted to write a sequel to </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always The Best Day Of My Life </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">and I have to admit it’s sat unfinished for months - the book itself just a few more pieces away from completion, every other project in my life sliding well past the point of late, all because I was tripped up on a single project (and probably not the one that most people are really waiting on, either.)</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">(But James is, so thank you for that.)</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Are you expecting some kind of surprise ending? Some kind of symmetrical return to the suspense of that very first essay whose shadow I’ve been laboring under for years now? There is none. Perhaps I expected to find one myself. Perhaps I was trying to will into being some kind of extrinsic disruption to the new status quo of my daily life -</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">But nothing is coming. Nothing is going to save me from this but myself. And nothing is going to work until I understand the problem. Until I </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">confront </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">the problem. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">What </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">is </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">the problem?</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">More than anything else the root of all my problems can be found in my unwillingness to accept what it means that I am mentally ill. The resistance, reluctance, flat-out denial to acknowledge that for two and a half decades certainly wasn’t the</span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;"> only </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">factor involved in my problems regarding gender, sex, my family, career, and relationships - but at the core of each of those separate and distinct categories lie my attempts to suppress basically everything about myself that didn’t work. And for much of my life it didn’t really feel like much was working. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So that’s why I spend my days walking around in a perpetual state of shock, seemingly - I always was, but I was also constantly disassociating by pretending to be another person altogether who just thought about dying </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">all the dang time</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> whether he wanted to admit it or not. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s a hard thing to come to grips with, that - your previous self having been nothing but a jumble of disassociated trauma and repetitive habits. I didn’t like the person I used to be, but he wasn’t even really a person. He was just me making myself miserable by pretending to be everything I wasn’t. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">And that has to do with being bipolar, that has to do with being trans and queer, that has to do with a lot of other stuff I won’t even talk about here. </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Everything you ever knew was a lie.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> Every damn thing. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I know some of this is familiar material. There’s a fair amount I’ve left out. You’re just reading an essay, whether you’re reading it online or in a book someday down the line. I choose to give you a lot but it’s what I choose to give, to share. What I don’t, I don’t. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">A few months ago I was sitting with my mom in her office, listening to her talk about genealogy. Now, </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">spoiler alert,</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> I have no interest whatsoever in genealogy. I suppose there are a number of reasons for that. I don’t really have any large extended family that I’ve very close with, for one, so the idea of lots of people being related to me is not something that I think about very often. I do know that parts of my family have been in this country for longer than there has been a country, and that means a lot of branches in the family tree leading to a lot of places. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So my mom is telling me about something or other she read in the historical record, a massacre of Native Americans accompanied by acts of barbarity so foul that I will not recount them here. Reprehensible acts, </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">monstrous </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">acts, committed to the historical record in the name of my ancestors on one branch or another. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I didn’t want to know that. There’s a part of me that wishes I still didn’t know that. This is part of why I am against genealogy in the first place: the men and women who committed those atrocities should not be remembered.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">This nugget surfaces in my memory a bit later, during the extended national mourning which follows the death of the 41st President, George H. W. Bush. A man held up by all sides of the national media as a paragon of patriotic virtue and honor. It must be noted that this praise was especially fulsome and fatuous as a direct rebuke to the current occupant of the office. But considering just how many of Trump’s policies are direct extensions or extrapolations of the elder Bush, it’s notable that </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">most</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> of what people seemed to be lamenting was a lack of performative tact animating the same greedy authoritarianism. </span></div>
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<span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Because here’s the four one one fam, things aren’t “getting” bad, things have </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">been </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">bad, and while they’ve been bad for some people for a </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">hell</span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;"> of a lot longer than others, almost everyone is feeling the heat now.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I’ve never known the prosperity my parents knew, growing up in the middle years of the twentieth century. Even the spotty, unequally distributed prosperity that “just” meant more schools were funded and more roads were patched. At least in the white parts of town. My parents watched in horror as their generation lurched harder to the right with every election. They started voting for tax cuts in 1978 in California, and those cuts had to start coming from somewhere: in the decade and change I spent in the California public school system growing up, I saw the system decline in direct proportion to the amount of money it was receiving. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">There’s no secret. You don’t need to convene a blue ribbon panel. If you want good schools you pay for them. (You can’t test your way out of austerity: it’s just a way of acknowledging the hoops are smaller and covered in sparking naphtha that burns when the kids leap through.) Same with roads, bridges, hospitals. People decided they didn’t want to pay for shit without realizing it was going to have to come out of somewhere, and it ended up coming out of their quality of life. And when quality of life declines and people get squeezed they turn to crime. Instead of spending what money they have on schools that cash goes to cops.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So, my friends, I am here today to tell you: we are not </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">entering</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> a period of crisis. The crisis has been here for a long time. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">As of this writing I have been living with my parents for just over twenty-one months. I had no idea how long I would be here when I arrived. I knew I needed some time to work on stuff. I didn’t know how much stuff that meant. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I didn’t know my mom would get sick and have to have a hip replacement, with a shoulder replacement in the cards for later this year. Didn’t know my dad was experiencing a long decline based on health issues we still don’t completely understand. We live in anticipation of diagnoses. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">What did I really need to work on - I mean, when I say, “work on stuff,” what did I mean by stuff? Well . . . </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">hnh.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">You read “Delaware,” right? That was a shock, from my perspective. How odd to get the news regarding your mental health only in hindsight, when examining the handiwork of an extended depressive episode. How else would you describe that? Like hearing the announcement of the demise of the Great God Pan via the wind. Like figuring out I’d lost an hour a day for a month and hadn't realized it.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">And then I rebounded from that, wrote a couple books, had a very productive first and second quarters of the year. I mean, I wrote two fantasy books in three months! That’s pretty impressive by any measure.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Summer was good. You can chart my output throughout the year and I’m puttering along fine until September. The month of my birthday, which, frankly, has traditionally been second only to February in terms of its tendency to attract personal calamity like flies to particularly odoriferous shit. I wrote a column while I was melting down, you can go back and read it yourself - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/hurting-sampler-22388190" target="_blank">“Hey, it’s a Column About Wolverine”</a> was literally the product of me losing my shit and trying to wring some meaning out of a pile of old </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Wolverine </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">comics Tucker sent me. You should know that for some reason I was thinking about T. S. Eliot a lot when I wrote it. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It wasn’t a good week for the world, y’know. I already wasn’t doing so great by late September but it was the last weekend of the month, just a couple days, after my birthday. Coincidentally the week of Brett Kavanagh’s confirmation hearings. Also the weekend one of those climate reports was released. I don’t remember. They all blend together after a while, even if you’re paying attention. Especially if you’re paying attention. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Have you ever had a panic attack? They come in all shapes and sizes, at least for me. There’s a bit of hyperventilation in the parking lot - that’s not an uncommon occurrence. Neither is debilitating anxiety. Kind of an omnipresence. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">But the morning after that week I woke in the middle of a restless night. I reached to the hope I keep in reserve for just these moments and found nothing.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I should probably mention at this point that I was listening to a lot of Broken Social Scene. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Their discography is surprisingly deep and very wide. But also quite sad. There’s a song on their 2017 album </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Hug of Thunder </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">- well, the whole album is about this feeling, but the final song </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">really</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> touches on it, you know . . . that whole “</span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">it’s the end of the world so I got the blues”</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> feeling. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Maybe you’ve had it. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So there I am, one moment my heart is racing, my breathing grows shallow, my thoughts start to cluster like clotted blood around a cut. And I get up, I’m panicking, even if it’s just my parents I need to talk to </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">someone </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">- but there’s no one there, it’s the middle of the night. I can’t even remember why the house was dark. That weekend the news was bad, that’s all I need to remember. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The one thing I wanted for my birthday was some AirPods, which I’m actually still wearing right now. I use them every day for multiple hours. It meant when I fell in the foyer right outside my room in the middle of the night, fainted dead away with my body both heavy and cold and on fire into a pile of random shit stacked up right outside my doorway, I didn’t rip the cord out and break my headphones, no, I just had Broken Social Scene blasting “Mouth Guards of the Apocalypse” the whole damn time -</span></div>
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<i><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The truth, the truth,</span></i></div>
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<i><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">That fabulous lie, </span></i></div>
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<i><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I’m tired of smiling </span></i></div>
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<i><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">While you constantly die.</span></i></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">- a song about the end of the world to soundtrack my panic attack over the end of the world. It screams and seethes. I wish I was exaggerating, but probably listening to Broken Social Scene over and over again while you’re depressed isn’t the healthiest thing. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Because here’s the thing about hope. Hope doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It exists in a continuum with fear. Hope only blossoms in the shadow of possible loss. That week, of all weeks, bore me down. What a way to celebrate your birthday - confirming not only that the ruling class in the country still consists of men and women whose moral standing strains to reach the hallowed heights of “troglodyte,” but that in their oafish and hectoring villainy they would prefer a world burnt to cinders to one in which they posses one iota less power. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">We </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">have </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">no national honor. The fool who sits on the throne now just makes it all the more obvious. The situation in that regard hasn’t really changed, however. You just weren’t paying attention. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">That fateful early morning panic attack set me back weeks. Deflated me. Then after few more weeks have passed, as if on cue, the hills above Chico, CA catch fire. The Camp Fire that consumed the town of Paradise was about thirty miles away, more or less. As the crow flies. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s late, well dark out. I’m standing in the bathroom without the light on, staring out the window. Thirty miles away and I can still see the columns of flame rising into the night. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Thirty miles was a safe distance - inasmuch as any distance can be considered safe these days. It’s mostly farmland between there and here, and also the small matter of the town of Chico. But it was close enough that, had the wind shifted, we would almost certainly have been advised to evacuate. As it is, the wind was blowing away from us for the duration of the fire. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Do you want to know what I thought in that moment? What went through my mind as I stood transfixed by the fire, far away but not far enough not to be seen from my home? </span></div>
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<span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">I’ve killed us all.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The battery went out that week in the car. Under normal circumstances hardly the end of the world, easily fixed with the help of a friend or a tow-truck. The circumstances behind the dead battery, however, related back in some way to the previously discussed </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">clock-is-missing-an-hour </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">phenomena. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Under normal circumstances these things aren’t the biggest deal. You’ve done it, I’m sure. Everyone has. For reasons both spectacular and quotidian. But when I do stuff like that, all I see is a hundred different flashing red lights telling me that something has gone critically wrong. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">That’s where the game comes in. I mean, that’s what the book is about, right? It all comes back to that game. The real purposes of the game are multiple but all trace back in some way to my mental health. I use the game <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to keep track of my mood, and regulate my circadian rhythms by forcing me to have at least one regular activity that follows a normal clock. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">If I mess up and forget to sign up for a Raid or another Guild activity, it’s a sign for me that something is going on in my brain and that I need to listen to the warning signs. In the three years I’ve been playing this game that has proven a remarkably astute predictor of my behavior. When everything is going well I don’t miss a step and my performance is remarkably consistent. When I miss something in the game it often means I’ve missed a step somewhere else. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The game has at times been the single strongest factor keeping me out of the mental hospital. Because since I’ve registered I’ve never missed a day, you see. If I go into the hospital, they take my phone away. So I stay on the straight and narrow, even through periods when I probably could have used the help . . .</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Of course, I stress, we were safe from the fire. There was a whole city between us and it. But it was just . . . close enough that, as I say, had the wind been different things could have changed very quickly. I had that initial thought, </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">I’ve killed us all, </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">because my completely innocent fuck-up just happened to coincide with the one time there was even a snowball’s chance in hell of us needing to evacuate the farm. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Me, my parents, four cats and a very surly Great Dane. It would be a tight fit in the Subaru. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s the evening of April 30</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12.45pt; vertical-align: 3px;"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">, 2016 – 1,126 days ago as of this writing. Three years have passed. It’s time to move on. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s almost June and so I’ve almost been out on the farm now for two years. Somehow I find myself once again in the position of having to finish up a number of outstanding projects before an early July deadline predicated on travel. Suddenly things are real and changing. Life works again, haltingly. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Boom. Just like that. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I couldn’t finish this book for the longest time because I knew that this book - </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">this essay</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">- encompassed an entire era of my life that I couldn’t move on from until I felt I was ready. The molten feeling that made every day sick and jarring is gone now, replaced with something softer and cooler and more certain. And these words and feelings have been piling up for months, waiting for me to be able to put them all in a little boat and cast them out on the lake for Viking funeral. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I promised you hope. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The hope I have to give is predicated on the assumption that it </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">hasn’t just gotten </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">bad. You need to believe me that the moral rot has been set in, septic, and gangrenous for generation upon generation already. What we’re living through at this moment in time are not the beginning stages of an ahistorical reactionary movement but the logical endpoint of a situation that has been building for decades. Since before I was born and since before you were born, too, no matter when you were born. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Because you can’t go forward in a state of denial. Nothing good comes from lying to yourself about any of this. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I’ve had to wait my whole life for people around me to wake up to the absolute ethical emergency of living complicit in this country. For all that I’ve changed and grown - and I have in so many ways - I have known the sorry state of the world because my parents </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">told me </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">the sorry state of the world. And they’re not special. There are lots and lots of people out there, all across the country, who know this stuff. They’re certainly not all </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">exotic marginalized people </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">like myself: some of them probably drive Subarus and shop at the Trader Joe’s in your town, maybe have one of those “Coexist” bumper stickers where every letter is a different religious icon. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">My parents told me that the President was a terrible person not </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">just</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> because of his politics, but because of the rotten character that the rotten politics implied. You either hear the bit about the President laughing about AIDS victims in the 80s and react with something like horror or you don’t. And if you don’t, if you hear that and maybe even shake your head but still, ultimately, believe that those are the kind of individual peccadilloes that you can forgive on a professional basis, well, is it any surprise that you voted for the </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">next </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">guy, the one who oversaw the spread of fascism in Latin America throughout the sixties and seventies with all the zeal of a gardener patiently cultivating a bumper crop of corpse flowers? The current “crisis” at our own southern border is just the natural consequences of our official centuries-old government policy of destabilizing every government in the hemisphere that doesn’t kowtow to the fascist oligarchy that very openly runs our country.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">My politics have not changed. I’ve </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">always </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">called Republicans greedy authoritarians. My understanding of the whys and wherefores, and my own personal complicity, has, changed, grown, and evolved over my entire lifetime, but I still believe that what my parents told me about how the world worked, in terms of who has power and who doesn’t, and who likes </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">using </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">that power and who doesn’t, is basically true. And I used to be the lefty outlier in a group of generally liberal friends and acquaintances. But now </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">all </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">my generally and genially liberal friends have gotten pushed further and further left. Even the ones with houses and cars are scared shitless. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The numbers are on our side. The numbers have </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">always </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">been on our side, but they lucked into the trick of figuring out that people would let you rob them blind in exchange for a paying a pittance less at tax time. Any qualms on our merry way to armageddon dismissed with a hearty and condescending down-home </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">“there you go again!”</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">And they tricked generations into thinking they could sweep every problem under the rug, and fix every outstanding problem by creating new problems, with the long-term goal of ravaging the economy badly enough to allow for the reimposition of some form of serfdom. </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">That’s always been the end goal: </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">the erosion of liberal democracy, the return to serfdom. Written about freely by far-right economists who no one reads but right wing billionaires and the >squints< large majority of the economic establishment funded by same. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">All of which is complete ahistorical twaddle, of course. Makes sense, sure, if you get hit in the head by an angry mule and forget everything you know about the last, </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">oh,</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">thousand years of human history. The only question as how far down the road to hell these destructive nincompoops would be allowed to drag the species before we rose up en masse. The answer: pretty damn far? </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">But the endgame was always obscured, as not even the poltroons of the “intellectual dark web” could figure the proper hand-jive to obfuscate the chafe of the manacle. They’re all either grifters or fools, most likely both. Heidegger was a fool who thought fascists actually gave a shit about philosophical grounding, when it was all always justification and obfuscation to mask the fact that people get high from hurting other people, and leaders who can promise people the </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">right </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">to hurt others without consequence have historically been richly rewarded by the kind of people who have no compunctions about weaponizing the grievances of the populace against their natural enemies among the dispossessed. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So now here we are at the endgame, and Rupert Murdoch is 88 years young, Tick tick tick, bitch. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">There’s more of us than there are of them, and more people see it now than at any time in my life. They impoverished a generation, giving them no reason to defend a morally cancerous and profoundly unequal prosperity that will forever be closed to them and their children. It’s as simple and profound as that. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Now: </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">I should be dead.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">If you’ve been paying attention so far, you know this. I fell into a self-destructive spiral that only ended when I heard a stentorian voice from beyond give me a kick in the ass. Sometimes you don’t see how bad it is until it’s too late.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Thankfully I heard it </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">almost </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">too late. Because when the universe gave me a binary choice between living and dying, well, I decided I didn’t much like the idea of dying. But since our world is what it is, the decision to live is also a commitment to fight. I don’t have much choice in the matter. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">You don’t, either. Much as I hate having to present anyone with a binary decision, this one’s pretty simple: do you want to live or do you want to die? Because if you want to live, from this moment forward you must fight. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The reason why people need to hit rock bottom before they can make real change in their lives is that we need </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">incentive.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> If we can possibly weasel out of doing something hard, we’re going to weasel out. We’re only going to do it if the alternative is even worse. It’s hard to summon the strength to change the world if you can’t feel the hot breath of the Grim Reaper on the back of your neck. I </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">promise</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> you, I understand that. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So you ask me why rejection is personal? I’ll </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">tell </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">you why rejection is personal. Because I should be </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">dead, motherfucker</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">know</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> how good I am. I don’t take seriously the condescending judgment of people young enough to have been my students. Contrariwise, I take every rejection personally because I pity them, just like I pity </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">each and every witless stripling out there </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">who passes on my work sight unseen - because I </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">know</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> it’s sight unseen. I </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">know</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> when someone hasn’t read my work and hasn’t, because the people who have usually thank me afterwards. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Does that sound boastful? Prideful? </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">So fuckin be.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> It’s the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Nineteen and there is absolutely no margin whatsoever in humility. Nope, when I decided to </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">live,</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">whether I knew it or not, I was making the decision to finally and definitively throw over all my harmful baggage and carefully cultivated denial. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">And here I am, over three years later. Everything’s different. Everything that could be fixed or discarded has been. The garage has been cleaned. I’m hardly perfect, but I’m not molten anymore. I’m solid as </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">hell. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The universe gave me a choice: life or death. I chose life. </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">I chose to eat thunder and piss lightning, motherfucker.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> Now, to the universe, I offer another binary choice: either round me up and put me in a FEMA camp for all the weirdo queer freaks or make me rich and famous. One or the fucking other. Tick tick tick, bitch. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Do </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">you</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> want to live? Then join me, here, in the glare of broad daylight, we’ve got a federal government paralyzed by obeisance to aberrant pathology and a world on fire outside your window. It’s not just now bad, it’s always </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">been </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">bad, but sometimes you haven’t so much minded the face of imperial decline. </span></div>
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<span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">And now you see.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> Hope isn’t blind optimism. Hope can only exist in the presence of doubt. So of course I acknowledge the possibility of failure. But somehow I’m still here. I didn’t want to die, so I didn’t. Sometimes it’s as simple as that. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I spent part of a recent drive up to Oregon thinking through the final stages of this essay - this same essay that has existed in incompletion for so long, dragging like an anchor behind every movement I’ve made for six months. It’s taken a while to make all the pieces fit.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The earliest incarnations of this book that existed in my head were much more heavy on The National. There’s still a little bit about them in the middle part of the book, a mention of </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Sleep Well Beast, </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">but the earliest preplanning for this book involved lots and lots of </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">High Violet.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> Like everything else The National have ever done, its melancholy music for grown-up thoughts. Because it’s got a couple teaspoons more bombast than, say, its understated follow-up </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Trouble Will Find Me, </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">it made a pretty substantial impact in the wider culture, “pretty substantial” being a relative term for any rock band or record in the twenty-first century.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It was my first significant trip away from the farm since the trip to San Francisco for the surgery, last year, which was hardly a “fun” trip from anyone’s perspective. On the other end of the Oregon trip there’s another doctor’s appointment waiting. This will be the appointment where the doctor confirms a tentative diagnosis of Parkinson’s for my father, words which actually go some ways towards deflating tension in the household by removing the element of unknown dread hanging over every proceeding. Once it’s a real thing, you can take pills for it, joke about it. Live with it. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s hard to live in anticipation. I blinked my eyes and two years passed, here out on the almond farm, two years which crawled by in the living but in hindsight seem a strange and discrete interlude. I’m still here, but there’s a future. Isn’t </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">that </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">a kick in the head - right when our own future as a country and as a species couldn’t look more dire, I find faith in my </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">own </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">future? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So there I was, on the road to Oregon in the springtime, listening to The National. Wondering if it was finally time to move on. Get going with the rest of my life. Not that I didn’t want to. Wanting to move on and being able to push yourself through the door are two completely different things. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Maybe someday I’ll write something more substantial about </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">High Violet.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> Maybe not. It’s an album layered over with personal significance. I first heard it with my ex, We listened to it a lot together. But I also listened to it a lot on my own. I gave a copy to my parents and they listened a lot, too. They caught that weird documentary the singer’s brother made about the band and have liked them ever since.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So this isn’t really about </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">High Violet </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">as an album so much as </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">High Violet</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> as a process, as a purgative. The kind of thing you put on the stereo when it’s time to make serious thoughts about the world and you want the guns to lay down suppressive fire. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">What it’s about, more specifically, is the next to last song on the album, “England.” It’s not an obscure track, you’ve possibly heard it in the background of a movie or TV show. Also a bit of a stomper, building from a hush to a scream by the end of its five and a half minute running time. It feels longer, it feels more epic than five and a half minutes, but that’s a testament to how much punch the band can summon when they really roar. If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t like the National since they started having their music played in movies, it’s probably not your favorite. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The song is about - and here I am, still recovering from grad school, wondering just how much I need to show my work in order to be able to tell you what a song is about. I don’t need to go through word by word. You can take </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">my </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">word for it, the song is about being lonely, and specifically the feeling of loneliness that accompanies being in love with someone on the other side of the world. A lonely situation under any circumstances, and especially so after you know the bond has been definitively severed. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">From the low rumble of the opening thump to the tremendous howling yawp of the song’s final moment, it reenacts that bloody haze of wounded loneliness and isolation - an isolation, as the song points out in the closing refrain, that isn’t lessened by being surrounded by other people. The line that gets me every time is “you must be somewhere in London / You must be loving your life in the rain,” because that’s when you know that he’s not talking to anyone, or not anyone who’s talking back. You must be in London, he reckons, loving whatever life you have now, but he doesn’t know. Not like you talk anymore. That’s the point.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">There is hope even in failure, for those who can see it. In the space of a heartbeat a single fanned spark smuggled from the wreckage can find once again the courage of a bonfire.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">This essay took a while to write because it was about change, and I knew deep down that I couldn’t finish it until I understood what that meant. And for so long as I tried to force it there was no hope. But soon after returning home from Oregon I realized that I wanted to be done with the essay not </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">just</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> because it was frustratingly outstanding, but because there was actually </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">other stuff that needed to be done,</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">and this was beginning to hold up the rest of the show. It was time to get on with it. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Before I came to the farm I was worried that a retreat to rural isolation might be a retreat from the current moment. But the hills are on fire. There’s no retreat because there’s nowhere to retreat to. That’s </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">also</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> the point. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Thoreau had his beans and I have my game, a different kind of farming but perhaps not </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">that </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">different, for our purposes. The orchard breathes in and out with the afternoon. Trucks carry boxes of walnuts and almonds from these branches to processing and shipping facilities in the region which, in turn, ship across the planet. Maybe you, dear reader, have eaten a salad topped with walnuts grown just a few yards from my sleeping head. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I look down again at the metal and glass box in my hand, a galaxy of zeroes and ones spinning pirouettes in the infinitesimal darkness. This matters, too, because of course games matter, and stories, and songs, and sitcoms and sports. It </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">all </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">matters, it’s </span><span class="s3" face="".sfuitext-italic"" style="font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">all </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">important. It’s all important until it isn’t. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">And one day you step out of the shower and catch yourself in the mirror and realize in a stroke the fullness of the chasm between now and then. Changes once molten and erratic have smoothed and cooled. Like the crack of a whip across the eyes you are the person you are becoming.</span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/03/of-mos-espa.html">Of Mos Espa</a></span><span class="s4" style="color: #454545; font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Hey folks! It’s been quiet - Patreon readers have gotten an explanation, but I’ve been holding off on posting anything here. This is at least partly due to the recent death of my laptop, meaning the only internet appliance currently in my life is my phone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Guess which interface is really fucking awful when you have to do it on your phone? Thank you, Blogger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">But I’m still here. And today for the first time ever I would like to put some of my fiction up here for y’all to try. Below you will find the opening chapters of </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Dan Magic</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">, the fifth book in my fantasy series, The Array. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Now, you should be able to hop right in - every volume is more or less independent of the other. Dan’s kind of a distinctive guy, he can speak for himself. (My god can he.) But if you like what you see here, you should know that I just put an Omnibus edition of the first three volumes up on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/the_hurting_" target="_blank">my Patreon</a> - that’s right, </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">A Darkness in the Time of the First,</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">The Book of the Loam, </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Beyond the Farthest Star,</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> all between two digital covers. It’s available instantly for the nominal price of a $2 subscription to my Patreon, alongside every extant chapter of Book Four, the ever tardy </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Balthasar Foeman,</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> still appearing in every issue of </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">The Hurting Gazette</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Now, if you like what you see of </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Dan Magic?</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> Well, you can read a little bit more in <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/hurting-gazette-25677400" target="_blank">issue 12 of the aforementioned </a></span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/hurting-gazette-25677400" target="_blank">Gazette,</a></span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> also available now for $2 subscribers. It has a <i>subscriber-exclusive</i> essay on Captain Marvel entitled “A Few Words About Carol Danvers.” </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">And if you </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">really</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> like it? The entirety of </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Dan Magic</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> is available right this moment for $5 subscribers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">(Also: Just $1 a month still gets you an ebook of </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always The Best Day Of My Life,</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> as well as collected editions of the first two sections of </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Zeroes</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> and </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Whistling in the Dark: A (Very) Short Book About They Might Be Giants. </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">And of course, </span><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/22388190" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">The Hurting Sampler</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> is always free.)</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Every dollar helps and makes a difference. So does every reader, so if you like what I see pass it along and give your friends the hard sell on my behalf. Thank you so much for your patience, maybe I’ll put up a comic book review or something. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Hi, I’m Dan Magic, and this is my grimoire. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Bet you weren’t expecting that! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">First of all, let’s talk a minute about just what a grimoire is and what a grimoire isn’t. I mean, sure, you probably might think a grimoire is a book of magic spells and potions and various other bits of technique and lore. I’ve read a few of those. More than a few of those. I mean, basically – I’ve read all of them. That’s kind of the point. I’ve read </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">every </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">grimoire I can find. And I’ve found a lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">But it’s been a long time since I’ve bothered because it’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">new</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> in the spell racket, at least anything I thought was more than just purely derivative. A few nice touches here and there, maybe. Some planets still have a pretty decent magical culture but the best minds are in archaeology. Obsessed with ruins. That’s sort of the mindset I’m trying to fight, I guess you could say. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I recognize that I’m sitting here talking from a position of genuine privilege. I can tell you that most grimoires are terrible because I’ve had the pleasure of endless – often </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">literally</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> endless – afternoons cramming my eyes with every spell and rune I could find, gorging myself on the best libraries in the galaxy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">But growing up I was </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">also</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> that kid who could only afford a crappy used spellbook that did a lot more harm than good in terms of things like proper form and psychic hygiene – I mean, if you have to teach </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">yourself </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">how to summon the wills you’re going to emerge with scars. People who had private tutors aren’t going to </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">have </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">those scars. I’ve come up from nothing. I’ve </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">been</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> nothing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So here’s the thing: the thing is, this isn’t a grimoire with a bunch of spells in it. This is a grimoire dedicated to </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">one</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> spell. And not just </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">any </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">spell, mind, but the most difficult single spell I’ve ever attempted. It’s going to take pretty much everything I have to be able to pull it off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">And if you’re paying attention in the course of performing this spell I will teach you everything you will ever need to know to successfully cast any kind of spell in your own practice. </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">Any</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> kind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">More important than how, though, is what. If you want to know how to cast a spell, you need to understand what spells are. What </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">magic </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">is. All those big ideas that you’re just not supposed to think about when you’re learning the basics of – well, whatever magical practices are considered “basics” in your local culture. It changes. All these big ideas that you’re not supposed to think about when you’re a kid and, honestly, you’re not really encouraged to challenge as an adult, either. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">That’s how you </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">cast </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">the big spells, though: you understand how and why magic works the way it does. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s not about formulae or math or ingredients, it’s about knowing where the levers of power in the universe are and how to push them. If you’re going to be more than a weekend warrior, if you ever really want to, ahem, “run with the big dogs” and cast real spells, you really need to understand all the stuff they usually try to gloss over in school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">There’s a reason </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">why</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> they gloss all that stuff over. There’s a reason why most magic cultures teach magic very badly. Magic serves many uses but it’s also very dangerous and most stable societies work to limit its effect on public life. One of the best ways to do that is to teach kids wrong and harmful shortcuts that they will never be able to outgrow. The kids grow up thinking they are perfectly functional master wizards, barely able to do more than maintain seasonal rainfall for medium-sized agricultural basins. You know, genuinely useful things that don’t actually do a lot to upset the balance of power in world relations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I can’t honestly say that’s a </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">bad</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> thing. No one has a right to be a wizard. No one is born having more or less right to access magic than anyone else. People who want to learn magic – well, it is a privilege, and also dangerous. Stable societies usually figure out that the best way to </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">remain </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">stable societies is to heavily regulate magic use, with an eye towards eventually eradicating the practice altogether. I can’t honestly say that’s a bad thing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">But this isn’t a book about magic policy. What this is, at least in part, is a book about magic </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">ethics,</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> because magic without ethics really is the most dangerous force in the universe. If you want to be a magician you probably think you’re doing it for all the right reasons – but I realize that’s an assumption – </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">You may already be a rotten little shit. If that’s the case this book really isn’t going to offer you much. You’re welcome to keep reading, but do so at the risk of actually learning something about the universe in which you live. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">If you want to understand how to use magic well you need to understand first of all that magic is </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">kind of terrible.</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> It lets people do things they shouldn’t. It’s extraordinarily easy to use magic for unscrupulous ends. It becomes difficult at times to imagine a wholly </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">scrupulous </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">use for it. It makes good people bad and bad people worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Again, that’s my privilege to say that, because I’ve already </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">made</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> the mistakes. I’ve already read all the other (boring) grimoires and done all the things they explicitly say you shouldn’t do, and I can tell you in most instances that they’re right to do so. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">But now that we’ve acknowledged my privilege I think it’s also important to assert my </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">experience</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">: I promise you there are some things that it is </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">not </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">a privilege to have learned. There are lots of spells I wish I could uncast. Lots of decisions I wish I could have back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Now, of course, you might be thinking to yourself, </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">“well, Dan, if you’re such a great magician, can’t you just undo your mistakes with magic?”</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> To which I can only reply: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">The significance of names to magic lore and practice has been historically overstated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">It’s not that names </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">aren’t</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> important. The first rule of magic is that </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">everything</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> is important, and everything is </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">always</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> important. But names aren’t really important in the same way that most people think they are and the reason why has to do with a pretty basic misunderstanding of the way that magic operates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Magic is the means by which humans can coerce the universe to go against its own better judgment for our benefit. That’s pretty much it in a nutshell. A magician is someone who learns, usually through years of study and practice and apprenticeship, how to bully the universe into doing what they want. And you can dress it up any way you like but that’s really all it is. Everyone has different ways of doing it, different ways, if you will, of expressing that bullying – but it’s still bullying. And it’s something that should only be done advisedly . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">. . . but if you’re reading this book I guess it’s probably too late for that!</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> Anyway. If you want to know magic, essentially you want to know how to wield a certain degree of coercive authority over the basic building blocks of reality. That’s really scary. It </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">should </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">be scary. It should be something </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">you do not undertake lightly</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">. It really, </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">really </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">should. The consequences of magic put to frivolous ends are simply too great. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">So what does all this have to do with names? Well, I’m glad you asked! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Magic is the means by which individuals can effect great change in the shape of the universe with nothing more than willpower. It’s very much centered in the individual practitioner and their understanding of reality. In a real way the practice of magic is the extension of the individual’s will into the universe by means of their aura, so they – we – </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">are literally changing reality with our minds.</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">I hope you understand just how dangerous that is. I hope your mind immediately jumped to whomever you believe the least responsible person on your planet to be. Imagine the worst person who ever lived, whatever genocidal dictator or cannibalistic serial killer is exalted on your world as </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">the epitome of all evil</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">, imagine what that guy </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">(chances are good it was a guy, sorry fellow guys)</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> would have done had he been able to bend the shape of reality with his will. Just for a second. I’m sure you’d rather not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">If you happen to hail from one of those worlds where your epitome of evil could </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">actually </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">bend the shape of reality to his will – my most pressing sympathies. I don’t need to explain magic ethics to you. You could teach me, I am certain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Names are actually a great example of this principle. Anyone can change reality directly with their mind simply by changing their name. People change their name every day for reasons both profoundly moving and deeply frivolous. It doesn’t matter </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">why</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> they do it so long as it’s a sincere change. Magic inheres to a person’s</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;"> actual</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> name, not their first name or given name or whatever bullshit some outdated source is telling you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;">Magic is big on obfuscation and illusion, all in the service of distraction. A magician tells you to look over there so they can do something over here, </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">presto change-o what the fuck-o there you go,</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> here’s a rabbit. And certainly, I guess, that’s A Way of doing things. I don’t see the point. I don’t want to distract anyone. I’m kind of over trying to get anything over you. It’s not a healthy way to be or a good way to live. And I know that might sound kind of rich coming from someone named Dan Magic who is currently writing a book about just that thing – magic. But it’s the truth. Some magicians really like the power trip. That’s why they call it a </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-italic"; font-size: 15pt; font-style: italic;">trick</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 15pt;"> in the first place, I suspect. </span></div>
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My Patreon subscriptions have been flat. That's actually <i>really good </i>considering I sometimes go over a month between uploading content, and <i>then</i> randomly upload 15,000 words in one go. It's a bipolar schedule for a bipolar writer, and I think by now if we've learned anything from this almost <i>fifteen year experiment in terror </i>called The Hurting it's that I work best when I accept the natural ebbs and flows of my writing schedule. As eccentric as that may be. </div>
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I'm trying not to be so critical of myself because, by <i>any </i>measure, I have had a <i>phenomenally</i> productive year. If not a lot of that productivity has actually trickled down onto this, my long-standing personal blog, it's because much of it has been landing behind the paywall of my Patreon. Where my subscriptions have been flat and steady<i> despite </i>an erratic writing schedule that would sink just about anyone else, because <i>literally no one</i> has actually caught up to my writing yet just from this calendar year.<i> </i>I am writing four books at once and that's only because I just finished the first three I started this year. </div>
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There's <i>a lot</i> of material behind the paywall, is what I'm saying. I actually have a little bit of backlist to flog. Considering you get pretty much everything for $2 a month I think that's <i>beyond</i> reasonable. </div>
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I barely wrote anything for a month because I was depressed, as happens in 2018. That became a blessing in disguise because a few people actually used my down time to catch up on the fiction. Since I began the<i> Gazette</i> I've been really hoping to build an audience to follow a story develop in real time. It's not like I don't have a few ideas about the structure and form of serial fiction . . . that a few people are finally on board makes me very happy to push forward. </div>
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So with that in mind I'd been casting around for an idea for another promotional giveaway that might bring new eyeballs to the Patreon heading into the end of the year. I've done a couple giveaways - the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/hurting-gazette-18135558" target="_blank">first</a> and <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/hurting-gazette-20098818" target="_blank">seventh</a> issues of the <i>Gazette,</i> both giant sized, both still available <i>right now. </i>I'm looking to finish all outstanding projects before 2019 - that's the goal, at least. The first objective for this giveaway was to give people a direct opportunity to catch up on my fiction, now that there's actually a fair amount of it to catch up<i> on. </i>Accordingly, the opening chapters of my first four fantasy books were the first things included. When I thought about what e<i>lse </i>could go in I realized I'd done enough work in the last year to justify a rather more exhaustive survey. And when I thought about <i>that</i> I realized I could put another section in the back with a handful of my favorite pieces from the site's almost <i>fifteen year </i>history, maybe some rarities and B-sides . . . and the next thing you know I had a pretty thick volume. </div>
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Suddenly what was conceived as just another loss leader for the Patreon (and which still is, obviously) became something a bit more fun, a chance not <i>just </i>to advertise the Patreon and my writing but also maybe give my most loyal readers an early anniversary present. Fifteen years in January! <i>What a trip! </i>Some of you have been following since the beginning, since even before then when I was just another mook in the <i>Journal.</i> I'm more grateful for that than words can convey. </div>
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<i>It's a tough world out there. </i>One of the things that gives me comfort and strength is that there are people who enjoy my writing and who are willing to spend money on it<i>.</i> I struggle <i>mightily </i>with monetizing my skills.<i> </i>Every attempt to sell my writing invariably falls flat. It has recently occurred to me, however, that I've got it precisely backwards: nothing good has ever happened in my career when I have<i> tried</i> to sell my writing. Every breakthrough I've seen these past few years - new connections, gigs, opportunities - has come as a result of trusting my writing to sell <i>me.</i></div>
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Most of this stuff is still available freely online in various places (save for the fiction, obvs), but there <i>are </i>a few things you won't find anywhere else. "Letter 4.5" was only available behind the paywall previously (although I believe I may have used it as a giveaway once or twice), and stands as the only halfway decent survivor of my brief sojourn into punditry in Winter of 2017. "A Journal of the Plague Years" was previously only ever printed in issue five of Australian arts magazine <i>The Lifted Brow, </i>and that was over ten years ago, so I guess it qualifies as a genuine rarity. It's ten thousand words on the subject of the comics industry of the 1990s, which I know you love from me. </div>
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Anyway. It's a rough time in the history of the republic. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/hurting-sampler-22388190" target="_blank">Have one on me.</a> Do me a solid and pass it along to the publishing industry executives in your life? </div>
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So lets talk about Ships.</div>
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Everyone hates
the Ships minigame. Everyone has also been pretty vocal about that since they
introduced it. Let’s talk about why.
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>A normal Arena match
is played with five characters against five other characters (unless you’re
playing something like a raid and therefore attacking the computer). Ships
started out that way as well, with five ships against five ships, with a
carrier for each side. Every fleet needs a carrier – currently the most
powerful and popular carrier, without question, is Thrawn. You do see Admiral
Ackbar and Tarkin as well, but very rarely Mace Windu. </div>
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Poor Mace.
Between Clones and Jedi, the Galactic Republic faction actually has a strong
fleet – just not Thrawn strong. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Anyway. When
Ships started, the max time for any game was 7:30, up from the 5:00 of timed
Arena combat. Between the carriers and reinforcements (something unavailable in
any other part of the game), ships games naturally run longer. At the
beginning, they ran so long that they had to nerf half the ships’ defensive
capabilities and reduce the opening number of ships from five to three. They
lowered the max time down to 5:00 at some point in there, and it plays better
now but games still run a lot longer than Arena contests. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>If I had to
describe the experience, I’d say if the regular game was baseball, the ships
minigame is baseball for people who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i>
like sabermetrics. It’s the same game, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">roughly.</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Galaxy of Heroes</i> is a wonky game in a
lot of ways – by which I mean it encourages a wonkish mindset. It’s OK for
things to be kind of boring or even kind of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">elaborately</i>
boring to an asinine degree, because what they’re trying to do is entice
players to spend money. Much of the game, for me, and I imagine for the
developers as well, consists of testing the patience of even the most committed
free-to-play users, such as myself. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Ships takes the
regular game and adds another layer of fiddly shit in order to scramble
expectations. The presence of static carriers and the use of reinforcements
does give combat its own distinctive feel, but it also makes for longer games.
That’s only a bad thing if people aren’t having fun, but the fact is that the
earliest incarnations of Ships were terrible. It was a slow game seemingly for
no other reason that defenses relative to offensive capabilities were poorly
balanced. People avoid Ships still because, frankly, it just wasn’t very fun
for a very long time. </div>
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But something
important regarding Ships, which I believe I’ve mentioned before: the Fleet
Arena is the only source for Fleet Arena tokens, and those are the only tokens
you can use to buy Zeta materials. And as I know I’ve mentioned Zeta abilities
represent the most significant upgrade in the game. </div>
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So if you’re
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manage a pretty tight grip on the metagame, and they do this primarily through making
powerful new characters that lead the game precisely in the direction they want
to go. Sith were dominant in the meta for a long time – and still are, as of
this writing – but they’ve been putting a lot of effort into rebuilding Jedi
the past few months. They’re not completely competitive yet. Twenty-two out of
the top twenty-five teams on my Arena node are currently led by Darth Traya,
with two led by Bastila Shan and one lonely team led by good ol’ Emperor
Palpatine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Jedi have been on
the receiving end of a concerted effort to reboot the faction for a few months,
after being completely unplayable for most of the game’s existence. General
Kenobi has always been good, but General Kenobi was also the only playable Jedi
for long stretches of the game’s history. They started with goosing Grand
Master Yoda’s stats to make both of his Zeta abilities more effective. His
Leader ability still isn’t anyone’s favorite, but otherwise they succeeded in
making him a lot more formidable. Actually kind of a tiny green cyclone of
pain, which is probably what Yoda looks like to you if Yoda wants to beat your
ass. </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beat your ass I will, but enjoy the
exercise of violence I will not . . . much.</i></div>
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But, everyone
already has Grand Master Yoda, and a lot of people even already had his Zeta
abilities, so that one upgrade wasn’t going to push anyone to spend a lot of
money. Which is why they introduced Bastila Shan right after, telegraphing her
significance before putting her on sale for a month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></i>And that makes sense. They want me to
drop either crystals (which cost money) or, preferably, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">human</i> money. There’s no way to get enough crystals to be able to
afford to buy the latest character packs when they appear – and I will point
out, the character packs in the store often do not include set amounts of
shards. Right now the going rate is 1,299 crystals for anywhere from 5-330
character shards. And I probably don’t have to tell you the payoff for those
isn’t always the best.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Or you can pay
$19.99 American dollars for 30 shards, guaranteed, which is about the going
rate. It varies a bit depending on how hot the character is. After the first
month or so they start selling premium characters in the Shipments store for a
slightly better freight – right now you can get 4 Bastila shards for 320
crystals, so you can do the math on that. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The only way to
get that many crystals, the amount you would need to ever be able to justify
actually buying new character shards in the store, is by winning in the Arena.
First place in the Arena – which goes out every night at 7:00 PM – gets 500
crystals and 900 Squad Arena Tokens. (Squad Arena Tokens aren’t that valuable
except for the fact that the Squad Arena Store is the only Store that sells the
Prestige ability materials which you need to upgrade your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carriers </i>for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ships </i>–
there was an old lady who swallowed the fly.)</div>
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By contrast,
coming in First in Ships gets you only 400 crystals, along with 1,800 Fleet
Arena tokens. (Remember, Zeta mats cost 2,000 Fleet Arena tokens and every Zeta
ability requires twenty Zeta mats. See what I mean about the math starting to
stack up?) </div>
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thinking, wait a minute, 400 really isn’t a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lot</i>
less than 500, well . . . that’s a very good point. Because the thing with the
Ships minigame, it’s simply a much smaller game. Ships didn’t start until the
game had already been going for a while, and there just aren’t as many ships in
the game as characters. Even once they started releasing ships at a steady pace
alongside characters, there are just fewer ships in the Star Wars universe than
characters. Around the time of the release of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rogue One</i> they added nine Rebel characters to the game, but only
two Rebel ships, to give you the idea. Now, you needed many of those characters
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/05/if-this-goes-on-ii.html" target="_blank">If This Goes On - II</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So let’s talk about how I got decent at this damn game.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Notice I didn’t
say “good,” I said “decent.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is a great
deal of humility in learning how to do something not well, but decently, and
being aware at all times of just how large the gap remains between decent and
well. Perhaps I aspire one day to reach beyond mere mediocrity – but you’ve got
to pay your dues before you can pay the rent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something about
video games that I never appreciated before is that they present a windows into
worlds where actions have consequences. Things make sense because players have
to be able to depend on some degree of consistency. Even given the element of
randomness inherent in the game system for something like <i>Galaxy of Heroes, </i>the randomness is predictable. You can set your
watch by it. I know that every different kind of item to be farmed is meted out
according to odds that range from “parsimonious” to “grim.” And it sucks,
sometimes, to do something like drop 200 Cantina Energy in one fell swoop –
which buys 12 shots at node 8-F at the Cantina Battles table, at 16 points a
pop, with half of one left over – and get one measly Veteran Smuggler Chewbacca
shard for my trouble. But I know the next time I have just enough for three
shards – 48 points – I could just as easily get all three shards from all three
chances.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s consistent
enough that I can make reasonable common-sense estimates regarding how long
certain things are going to take. In the case of Veteran Smuggler Chewbacca –
well, I didn’t pick just any random character. Right now as of this writing the
biggest question mark on my horizon is whether or not I am going to be able to
get the aforementioned Veteran Snuggler up to the requisite seven stars by the
next time the event comes around for Jedi Training Rey, currently one of the
most powerful characters in the game. He’s one of the five characters you need
to finish the mission to unlock her . . . and he’s the last one I need,
incidentally.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">(I should point
out that I literally just now picked up the game, saw that I had 21 Cantina
Points, and bought one go at 8-F – and got one snuggly shard for my trouble. So
it’s just luck. And algorithms.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps I should
back up a bit here . . . it’s easy to get lost in the weeds because long-term
plans for this game tend to metastasize, as they generally follow the story
logic of the “swallowed the spider to catch the fly” type. The important thing
to remember is that the most powerful character in the game is currently Darth
Traya.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yeah, <i>her.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So powerful is
she that the all but two of the top twenty Arena teams in my node have Traya,
and some of them don’t even have her all the way up to seven stars yet. If you
recall, there’s only one way to get Traya, and that’s the Heroic level of the
Sith Temple Raid. And it so happens that the absolute best character for
getting past the most punishingly difficult level of the temple – that’s right,
our boy Captain Tryhard himself, <i>Darth
Nihilus</i> – the character who does it best is none other than <i>Jedi Training Rey.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Please don’t ask
me how. The reason <i>why </i>Nihilus is so
damn annoying in the first place is that he has </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">some kind of weird protection
regeneration ability that deflects the vast majority of damage – <i>unless,</i> that is, you know how to slide
your damage under the protection, and the character who can do that the
absolute best is Rey with a dedicated Resistance team. The most common team I
see when I look is usually Rey (“JTR”), with the game’s other Rey (“Scavenger”),
BB-8, R2-D2, and the powerful generic Resistance Trooper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">(An aside about
generics: faceless characters like Resistance Trooper, Resistance Pilot, Hoth
Rebel Scout, and Hoth Rebel Soldier are actually important, even though it
really <i>hurts </i>to have to allocate
resources to get my Resistance Trooper up to Gear Level XII when other, cooler
characters who are also significantly less important languish. I’m looking at <i>you,</i> seven-star General Grievous.
Perhaps the most useless rare character in the game, but I love him perhaps not
despite but <i>because </i>of his
uselessness. He tries his best. I’m proud I got my angry son up to seven stars
even though there was <i>literally no reason
to do so</i> except my vague suspicion that he will one day be a Fleet
Commander in the Ships minigame, same as Holdo. Presumably either Hux or Snoke
will one day also be a Fleet Commander for the First Order, since they already have
a lot of ships but still no carrier. Neither Snoke nor Hux are playable yet,
and one must assume the developers are aware of the absences.)</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(“Holy shit,” the developer gasps, “you
realize we could do . . . Snoke! He’s in that movie too, we could make him a
playable character!”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Let me see if I understand you
correctly,” the other developer answers, “Snoke . . . from that movie we saw?”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Yeah! I was just reading – did you know</i>
<i>that was a Star Wars movie?" </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“I suspected as much,” the second
developer mused. “Call it a hunch. But this – this changes </i>everything.”<i>)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So anyway. JTR does something really
quite clever but very complicated and leads her team to a considerable amount
of damage against that punk Nihilus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is an
example of everything I hate about the game, by the way. They designed an
essential challenge such that there is really only<i> one</i> viable option, meaning that you’re stuck playing the game at
their pace. Which, I mean, fair enough, it is their game. But I hate being
siloed into a very specific set of actions, <i>especially</i>
when it’s a multi-step process that forces me to build my entire medium-term
plan around accomplishing <i>just this one
thing.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i></i>There’s not a lot of creativity in
that kind of game play. In fact, there’s quite a bit of <i>white-knuckle grim determination.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here we see a big
difference between the game play in <i>Galaxy
of Heroes </i>and the kind of game you’d buy (hopefully as much as possible) all
at once and play in its completed form at home on your TV. My game playing
experience is free, yes. Never paid a single dime. But the game is <i>obviously</i> not designed to help players
like me in ways that discourage us from spending money. There are always
opportunities to get ahead if you’re willing to part with actual hard-earned
currency.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> So it’s not as if
long stretches of boring languor are going to get me to rage-quit the game. I
mean, they might in theory. But whereas another type of game might put a
premium on never consciously<i> trying</i>
to frustrate players through sheer tedium, <i>Galaxy
of Heroes</i> has such tedium structured as part of the experience. They always
play fair with free-to-play players – by which I mean, everything is available if
you have the patience. They’re counting on people not having that much
patience. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But over the long
term? As of this writing they have just introduced a maddeningly fiddly new
system for mod enhancements, one that introduces yet <i>another </i>currency into the game economy. Doesn’t look as if they
have any plans to stop expanding the game anytime soon. There’s just a lot to
keep up with. In lieu of being an oil tycoon the only way to stay competitive
in the long term is just to <i>show up and
do the damn farming. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">With that said,
there’s really no way for me to be competitive in the Arena anytime soon. I’m
stuck around one hundred on any given day – on a good day I can maybe beat a team
in the seventies, and on a day I don’t pay any attention my team on auto will
tend to settle somewhere around the one-teens. Pretty consistently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So they’re not a good team. Not even close.
Every character <i>in</i> it is good, but
ultimately they’re a team of utility players without much direction – Emperor
Palpatine on lead, with Vader, Thrawn, Tarkin, and right now, the generic TIE Fighter
pilot in the fifth slot. Even if my team is maxed-out there’s still only so
much that set of characters can do in Arena. Not compared to the wall of Trayas
at the top, or the Jedi and Resistance teams scattered among the Sith for most
of the rest of the Top 50 on any given day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s a
placeholder, basically, because I <i>know</i>
I’m not competitive in that realm. The problem is that the game doesn’t sit
still. Traya is on the top now, but as sure as the sun rises, in a few months
it’ll be someone else. Traya will undoubtedly still be important but will in
her turn recede into precisely the kind of utility player represented by the
likes of . . . Emperor Palpatine, Vader, Thrawn, and Tarkin. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because, I mean,
I finally got my General Kenobi up to seven stars. Remember him? It’s been an
eventful summer. He’s still <i>very </i>playable,
especially since they’re slowly building Jedi into a competitive faction – all
the Jedi teams in the Top 50 are led by Bastila Shan, another Old Republic
character, about whom I know only that she whomps ass.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It took a couple
years for me to get that General Kenobi. They introduced him, and the original
Tank Raid, when I was just fresh out of my nervous breakdown rushing like a
freight train towards the climactic end of 2016. A different world ago. I was
patient.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The long and the
short of it is that I don’t anticipate being competitive in Arena anytime soon.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am, however, <i>quite</i> competitive in Ships. And that
might be almost as good. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Galaxy of Zeroes</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/02/galaxy-of-zeroes.html">Introduction</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/03/of-mos-espa.html">Of Mos Espa</a></span><span style="color: #454545;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/03/much-ado-about-nihilus-part-one.html">Much Ado About Nihilus - Part One</a></span><span style="color: #454545;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/03/much-ado-about-nihilus-part-two.html">Much Ado About Nihilus - Part Two</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/03/which-one-is-starck-again.html">Which One is Starck Again?</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/18135558">The First Star Wars Essay</a></span><span style="color: #454545;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/04/ready-player-none.html">Ready Player None</a></span><span style="color: #454545;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #454545;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/05/if-this-goes-on-i.html">If This Goes On - I</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/05/if-this-goes-on-ii.html" target="_blank">If This Goes On - II</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/06/if-this-goes-on-iii.html" target="_blank">If This Goes On - III</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/07/if-this-goes-on-v.html" target="_blank">If This Goes On - IV</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com/2018/07/if-this-goes-on-v.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">If This Goes On - V</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span>Tegan O'Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345577.post-24111086227096271392018-08-27T07:07:00.001-04:002018-08-27T07:07:24.726-04:00An Announcement<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>CW: Suicide,
self-harm, politics.</b></span></div>
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So let’s talk.</div>
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There’s a quote commonly attributed to Karl Rove, from an
October 2004 feature on the Bush Administration written for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rolling Stone</i> by Ron Suskind. Everyone
who could have said it has subsequently disavowed it. </div>
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You may know the quote. It’s pretty famous: </div>
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People like you are still living in
what we call the reality-based community. You believe that solutions emerge
from your judicious study of discernable reality. That’s not the way the world
really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own
reality. And while you are studying that reality – judiciously, as you will –
we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and
that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors, and you, all of you,
will be left to just study what we do. </div>
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You knew when you saw it that it was going to end up in the
history books. Such a naked display of arbitrary power – reality itself is just
another constituent to be heard from in its turn and then, perhaps, heard from
less as time goes on. </div>
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It was also nakedly delusional. It’s almost like something
they might say in a comic book. Not a particularly good one. </div>
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Anyway. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Those guys
failed spectacularly at everything they tried.</i> Only it was a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">funny</i> kind of failure, one that came
with very little in the way of personal, professional, or political
consequences. That’s really weird, I mean, when you<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> think</i> about it. </div>
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I think about it a lot. I sincerely hope you do too. </div>
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So the National, of all people, used this famous quote on a track
on their 2017 album <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sleep Well Beast.</i>
That was my favorite album of 2017, but 2017 was a weird year for me where I
didn’t listen to a lot of new music. 2017 was also an emotional charnel house
from January through to December. It’s that kind of album. If the idea of doing
a rock album about the heat death of a tired grown-up relationship seems
unpleasant, well, it’s probably everything you think it is. But like I say, my
2017 was pretty rough. I think there’s a chance yours may have been too. It was
that kind of year.</div>
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It’s a very inward facing album, filled with observations
that could perhaps be described as “musings.” It’s . . . well, I’m beating
around the bush here, but it’s a rock album about being middle aged. And not
the Springsteen “Glory Days” middle aged – no, this is a contemporary middle
age, all quiet despair and disassociated bonhomie. It’s not an album about
longing for youth. Being older is just taken for granted, and there’s something
really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reassuring</i> about that. It’s
not an album I think I could recommend to a twenty-year old and expect them to
love – I mean, it’s just kind of sad. The kind of thing you listen to when you
want to think about old memories, not make new ones. </div>
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If you know anyone who’s really into this album, maybe ask after
them? </div>
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For a good while in the late Summer and Fall of 2017 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I </i>was really into this album. I bought
it the week it came out at Target, because that’s the only place that sells CDs
next to the dog food. That still sells CDs. This would be right before my mom
went into the hospital for a couple months, so I would have a lot of time in
the car driving back and forth by myself, listening obsessively to this and a
few other things, the most recent Ariel Pink (which dropped the week after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sleep Well Beast</i>), a newer band called
Alwways. </div>
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So think about that quote from above, from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rolling Stone </i>piece, and imagine a
recitation of that played over a low-key instrumental section of a song about
being emotionally disassociated in the last days of a doomed relationship –
“I’m always thinking about useless things / I’m always checking out,” he goes,
before cooing “I only take up a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">little</i>
of the collapsing space.” Only. Matt Berninger has been reduced almost to a
tiny pinprick of wounded beffudlement against the horizon. I hadn’t encountered
that quote in a while. I heard it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a lot </i>over
those few months, by now I can probably recite it from memory, to give you an
idea of just how maudlin things were (well, maybe, get a couple drinks in me
and I’ll show you my Karl Rove if you know what I mean). I puzzled over that
quote in the song, on the album, an album without any other kind of political
content whatsoever. It was perhaps an unexpected bit of “wisdom” to be chewing
over in the first year of the Trump Administration, but maybe not by quite so
much as you’d think.</div>
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The National put that quote in a different context and made
it a lot easier, once I had thought about it for a while, to see the emotional
tenor of those words. The reason why it seems so cartoonishly evil is that, to
me at least, it sounds like something you<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
imagine </i>someone saying, in terms of the fact that it lays clear the malice
at the heart of the sentiment in a way that would usually only be a dog
whistle. Imagine sitting in traffic and drifting off in boredom, putting these
fateful words in the mouth of the impossibly beautiful woman who no longer
gives you the time of day. Like the woman in these songs – only described by
her absence, a chiaroscuro person. </div>
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Those words are<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
arrogance</i>. It doesn’t seem plausible that a real, live human being would
actually say those words out loud because the philosophy described in them is
so obviously, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">patently</i> absurd and
self-defeating that you’d need to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extraordinarily</i>
high to have it make even a passing kind of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">resemblance</i>
to sense. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore” – famous last
words for conquerors since time immemorial. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
underlying premises behind reality do not change simply because the ruler deems
them inconvenient. </i></div>
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So why is this woman absent? Why are there no songs about
her on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sleep Well Beast?</i> I puzzled
over that a bit but I think the answer is fairly straight-forward. He’s not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blaming </i>her. This isn’t “Idiot Wind”
with its suffocating bilious rage. The fact is that the relationship died, and
sometimes when that happens it’s no one’s fault. The album knows this. It
doesn’t really want to drag the other party into it on anything other than the
level of allusion, because it knows that it would just be petty, vindictive,
possibly just repellent. Two people who once loved each other are now on
completely different planes of reality. He doesn’t try to blame her for his
behavior, or use the album as an opportunity to air a one-sided grievance. There’s
a power differential between the semi-famous rock star and the person who
isn’t, and Berninger never oversteps, in my judgment. The person who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">isn’t</i> a famous songwriter doesn’t
usually get many chances to settle the score. </div>
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I mean, sure. There’s lots of pleading, appeals. The core of
the album, found a little over halfway through, is a song called “Empire Line,”
whose chorus is the simple question:</div>
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Can’t you find a way? </div>
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Can’t you find a way?</div>
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You are in this too,</div>
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Can’t you find a way?</div>
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It’s the worst sound in the world. It sticks in your throat
because you know what the answer is. He<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>knows
what the answer is, too. </div>
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But crucially he doesn’t try to represent the conversation
as equal when he knows it isn’t. It’s not actually about her at all. It’s about
him. She’s not<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>in this too. She left
a long time ago. That’s kind of the problem. She’s not there, and neither is
anyone else: </div>
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I’ve been talking about you to
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‘Cause there’s nobody else</div>
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And I want what I want </div>
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And I want everything </div>
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I want everything.</div>
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Maybe that’s the problem.</div>
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One of the best pieces of advice I got in my entire college
career came in the form of an observation about the Great American Novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moby Dick</i>. </div>
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I am certain the person who made this observation had made
it a hundred times before to hundreds of undergrads. I didn’t even like this
person, truth be told – but this one very simple thing has stuck with me long
past almost everything else. I’m paraphrasing, but this is the gist: </div>
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The most important parts of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moby Dick</i> are the parts with the whale minutiae.</div>
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If you’ve read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moby
Dick </i>you know the feeling of huffing along somewhere in the deep thicket of
the novel and coming across those first chapters of factual recitation of whale
lore. It’s not a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fun</i> feeling because
it’s an acknowledgement that this wonderful book which had begun as such a
rousing pulse-pounding adventure story and buddy comedy in jolly old Nantucket
was actually maybe going to get a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tiny</i>
bit dry and tedious before all was said and done.</div>
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Now, I’ve read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moby
Dick</i> twice and I can assure you that the tedium is intentional. It’s a very
contemporary impulse, actually, the construction of an archive of interpretive
material beyond merely the symbolic or metaphorical or psychological level.
When you read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moby Dick </i>you have to
grapple with the fact that the significance of whales to human myth and
imagination – no<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> small</i> significance,
either, as whales remain the only animal whose sheer size naturally conjures
associations with divinity – is no greater than the significance of whales to
human science and economy. It is at the intersection of these that we see the
process of dismantling the living creature into pieces precisely measured for
separate sale by capital, the process which consumes so much gory (and
homoerotic) real estate in the middle of the book. </div>
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What’s the whale a metaphor for? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maybe there is no metaphor.</i> Maybe the point is that the whale is
bigger than we understand. To make any creature or person or phenomena into a
metaphor is to rob them of the most basic right of standing for themselves. The
whale is its <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</i> reality. When the
whale asserts himself the book promptly ends. He alone survived, etc. </div>
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Star Wars isn’t a metaphor. This book is about a lot of
things but this book is still always consistently <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">about </i>Star Wars even when it’s about everything else, and the
reason why isn’t because Star Wars <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">represents</i>
anything at all. Star Wars doesn’t stand for anything but itself. Culture
writing in this late capitalist hellscape of 2018 resembles nothing so much as
the crew of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pequod</i> setting out to
hunt, capture, and vivisect the mighty leviathan. It’s gruesome business. We
filet every square centimeter of meat for piping hot takes, served daily all
year round. </div>
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I mean, come on. This book could have been about anything,
really, but the reason why it’s actually about Star Wars is that by being about
Star Wars there’s a chance more people might read it. I don’t think I’m giving
away any trade secrets there, hoss. </div>
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But Star Wars – well. Star Wars is big enough to accommodate
even the most capacious intellect because it’s a beast designed around the idea
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scale</i>. From the very first moments
of the very first movie you are seeing things that are designed to impress upon
the audience, and convincingly, the illusion of size. People like seeing really
impressively large things on the movie screen. Give people a window into a
universe where really impressively large things happen on a regular enough
basis and they’ll make you a billionaire. </div>
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Star Wars isn’t a metaphor. When I lost my shit in the
grocery store parking lot because I left my keys in my car, I really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i> going back and forth between having
an active breakdown and figuring out how best to use Starck and the Phoenix
Squad. I’ve been on this farm for a year and I still have not missed a day of
farming my game, even in the midst of the most grinding depression and poverty
and despair and apocalyptic current events, it’s still a reason to get up in
the morning even after two and a half years. </div>
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I used to think I should feel ashamed about that but I guess
writing a book about the process has, at least so far, helped me appreciate the
significance of wringing whatever meaning from life that you possibly can while
you can. And honestly, after doing this for two and a half years and counting
the scale of the endeavor has sort of become the point. It’s a part of my life.
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And now it’s been a year. </div>
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Didn’t plan it that way, certainly, but I write these words
on the July 4<sup>th</sup>, 2018 – one year to the day after I last saw my ex
outside the terminal of the Cleveland airport. </div>
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How has it been a year? It doesn’t seem long ago now, just a
little bit. A year on the almond farm with my parents and their dog and cats. </div>
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How has it been a year? </div>
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I bought a chain a while back to wear around my wrist –
beautiful piece, stainless steel. Fits my general motif. I wore it for a few
months and it was quite comfortable – fit perfectly on my wrist, not too heavy.
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You see . . . it was a hard thing, a very hard thing, to
realize that I have within me a streak of slavish dependency. That makes me
ashamed of myself. I avoided being alone for decades because I was afraid of
what I might find out about myself, and sure enough, I only had my final
revelation about being trans after I’d been living semi-independently from my
ex, then at art school. I was afraid of being alone – so afraid,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> terrified</i> of something I knew was
hiding in the back of my head, getting ready to leap the moment I let my guard
down. </div>
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Peoples’ emotions are very loud for me . . . and I think
just that fact made me desperate to stick to as many other people I could. If I
was around someone else I didn’t have to listen to my own problems. I could
just ignore them, which I did for over twenty years – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. </i>But
you can’t outrun a faulty premise. I found it exceedingly difficult to make
good decisions while acting under an incomplete understanding of myself.</div>
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So what happened? Lying to myself did nothing but compound
every problem in my life. It led me to a place where my only options were
simple: change or die. I’ve hurt people . . . more than a few. Not
intentionally, certainly, but that’s cold comfort. I didn’t know anything about
myself, in so many ways . . .</div>
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Suddenly I nod off. I’m trying your patience. More than
usual. I’m having trouble getting through the fog, this last section has been
hanging pregnant over my head for the better part of the week. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span></span>I jerk awake. The
room is dark and my computer is on the floor next to me. I don’t remember
turning the light off or putting the laptop up . . . I’m still listening to
Stars (“Sunrise / oh sunrise / when will the night be gone? / It won’t let me
go”) on my headphones. I turn the music off. I hear a scream . . . </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">yeah ok I like helvetica what's your point</td></tr>
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So let’s talk about good and evil. </div>
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There’s a reason why political discourse in mainstream media
leans heavily towards technocratic discussion of process: it’s a really good
way to talk about politics if you want politics to exist in a vacuum. If
politics is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">system</i> – rule and
mechanism and Discourse, all very orderly concepts that can be discussed
without passion or bias – then you can discuss the proper maintenance of system
without any acknowledgement of what system actually does – that is, the people
who it supposedly serves, and who it <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actually</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
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So let’s talk about why I’m wearing a brace on my left hand.
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I know I shouldn’t read so much into the kinds of small and
incremental triumphs that mark my progress in the game, but really, that’s the reason
I play the game: the feeling of satisfaction I get when long-term plans pay off
is simply extraordinary. I am not being at all facetious when I say that this
game has taught me serious grown-up life lessons about patience and economy.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
It’s been a hard thing to understand just how thoroughly I
had lied to myself for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so many years</i>
about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so very many</i> aspects of my
life. The mind is a strange thing, to turn on itself so rigorously and
ruthlessly. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Think about the fact that a significant percentage of the
population of the United States thinks that feeling bad for their fellow human
beings is a dirty trick being played on them by people who pretend to care in
order to “score points.” The implication, if you follow, is that an active
minority in this country really very enthusiastically does not perceive the
active and ongoing suffering of fellow members of its own species as a
significant crisis, and think that people who do are making it up for ulterior
motives, and naïve to boot. Do you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">now </i>feel
any obligation to extend the olive branch to people who so willfully abrogate
the most sacred responsibilities of being human? </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Last week they released a rather obnoxiously large new
update that centered around the Ships minigame. Essentially it was a whole
bunch of new levels that were going to be useful for farming gear that hadn’t
previously been available to farm, but in the moment it was merely a pile of
busywork that needed doing. In order to be able to farm the levels I have to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">beat</i> them first, of course, which means
beating every rinky-dink level on my way to the top. Which I did. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
So why am I wearing a brace on my left hand? </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
But it’s not like it’s any different here, now, in the United
States of America, than it has ever been anywhere. It <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> isn’t. That’s neither consolation nor fearmongering, it’s
simply a fact: there’s always been people who care and people who don’t, along
with people who don’t like suffering so much but are OK with it as long as they
don’t have to see it, and finally and most fatally <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">people who really, really get off on projecting their will onto other
people simply for the sake of it.</i> That’s . . . all of history, basically.
We’re not immune to history. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
For the longest time I lied to myself about hurting myself,
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so</i> many ways. I have spilled a lot
of digital ink exploring all the ways I’ve denied hurting myself, and all the
ways I’ve worked to overcome that. So far. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
It was a half-hour of tedium using my team (currently
placing consistently in the teens for the Ships rankings, on the days when I
have the time set aside to battle right before rankings are set at eight), but
my Ships brought me unexpected gifts in the form of a pile of Zeta mats that
were given as bonuses for completing the top tier of the new levels. So my
Emperor Palpatine got his second and final Zeta ability slightly ahead of
schedule. And that means Thrawn will get his first Zeta ability that much
sooner. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Perhaps my favorite aspect of Political Theory, at least
inasmuch as I really enjoyed the discipline as it was taught me by the faculty
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is that it’s a discipline still tragically
in active dialogue with its earliest theorists. In terms of the basic insight
into the structural deficiencies of representative governments, what Aristotle
observed in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Politics</i> remains
essentially axiomatic. It gives me sincere comfort to know that fucking <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aristotle,</i> of all people – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hardly </i>my favorite philosopher, I stress,
actually one I greatly dislike in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">many</i>
other contexts – would be able to look at our political situation in 2018 and
say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">oh, yeah, that’s a “demagogue,”
sorry, that’s on page twelve of the</i> Politics,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> pretty much the terminal point for democracies, which are
fundamentally unstable, which I kind of already pointed out but no one ever
fucking listens . . . </i>the human race has been here before. We understand
why these things happen now a lot better than he did, and certainly the shape
of our societies would be unrecognizable, the value sets illegible. But it’s
still the same <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">forces,</i> the same pantomine
torsions between competing interests masquerading behind virtue to hide a stubborn
dedication to the preservation of inequality as the invariable basis for
societal wealth, undergirding society then as now. Now we have smartphones. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
As dark as it gets, we’ve still been here before. Not
everyone makes it out, but that’s precisely why I’m writing a lot, so that,
like Walter Benjamin, I can be a patchy and undisciplined writer and member of
a persecuted minority whose large but unorganized body of posthumously
published work galvanizes a generation of postwar intellectuals after my tragic
death. I mean, if you put this on your shelf next to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Arcades Project</i> you can <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">barely
</i>tell the difference. Strong narrative focus. Good beach read, accessible.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I mean. It’s the name of the blog. Still. Never changed it. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Spring was hard. One of the reasons why it was hard was that
things were supposedly going <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">better</i>.
It’s easy to be a deep-sea diver. But suddenly the pressure gets relieved and
there you are, back on land, trying once again to acclimatize yourself to regular
atmospheric pressure . . . and there’s always something new. Every time I sit
still for longer than five minutes I feel the hot breath of revelation on the
nape of my neck. The wolf finds me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The incremental improvements some of these supposedly
game-changing abilities offer really do not seem that impressive on first or
second pass. In this instance, Emperor Palpatine’s Leader ability – his second
and final Zeta ability, so he is now officially completely filled out . . . except
of course for the new Level XII+ gear slots that just opened up, even if they
haven’t yet rolled out any of the activities where we can get the new kinds of
gear. So, you know. The mods need improvement. EP went from, heh, please pardon
the expression, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">zero to hero</i> so
quickly he’s still got some decent-but-not-exemplary mods on. He could be a lot
faster. He’s getting regularly beat in mirror matches against much faster
versions of himself. So much of the game depends on EP’s board-locking Power of
the Dark Side ability, which has a high chance of immobilizing your opponent’s
entire team. I’m not saying it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">impossible</i>
to come back from getting Power of the Dark Sided first, but you’re fighting an
uphill battle, and especially not one that the team is going to be able to do
on auto half the time in the Arena. You need to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">faster,</i> and that’s that. Even just a few ticks off the clock might
make all the difference He’s a naturally slow character, and right now his
speed is 196. He needs to be well over 200 – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">well </i>over – but I need time to farm for really good mods. That’s
not a small thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
(I never really figured out quite how the timing mechanisms
work, other than that bigger numbers correspond to faster characters. Someone
in the guild chat tried to explain it once but there’s no shit a lot more math
than I can deal with, and I’m willing to deal with a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">surprising</i> amount of incidental math in this game.)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
He left a lot out, obviously. I’m a woman who can vote and I
sure don’t own property, so I can attest that Aristotle left out <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">plenty.</i> But I don’t think about it in
terms of him being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some great dead white
male who successfully defined the world with his mighty brain,</i> but as a
smart guy who long ago made some very, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very
</i>rudimentary observations about the political organization of human
societies, and whose observations regarding the ways in which those different
kinds of human societies inevitably and tragically falter remain sound. Think
about it this way: we are still using an iteration of governing technology that
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the fucking Ancient Greeks knew was faulty,
full of bugs, and in dire need of constant patches.</i> We’ve had a long time
to figure our shit out but we keep getting stuck on page 12 of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aristotle’s</i> fucking<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Politics.</i> If we’re constantly stuck arguing with troglodytes over
the very purpose of the species in terms of communal responsibilities to one
another, it doesn’t leave a lot of time for paid sick leave or police
abolition. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
At the end of 2017 I wrote an essay called “Delaware.” (I
mentioned it once already at the very beginning of the book.) The reason why
“Delaware” was so terrifying to revisit after writing is that it signified on
some level that I was still playing double-column bookkeeping with my emotions.
I wrote an essay about all the trauma and turmoil of my 2017 and when I looked
back at it, when I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actually sat down and
read what I had written,</i> I was shocked by the picture of myself that I had
drawn for myself. I was surprised by my own words about myself. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Thrawn isn’t even at level XII yet, I should mention,
doesn’t have either of his Zetas, but he’s already quite useful. A fun
character once you get the hang of his tricky abilities – a feat I stress I
have by no means accomplished myself. Well worth the effort. With any luck <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he’ll</i> be at Level XII by the end of the
week. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
(Update: Dear reader, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he
made it.</i>)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Do you see why that might seem so terrifying? I put it right
down in black & white over half a year ago that I react to stress and anger
with self-harm. I devote a page to hitting the refrigerator of my old apartment
as hard as I can, so hard I’m amazed I didn’t break my hand . . . </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
So many people are hardwired to accept powercults as
rational and good organizational models. Our President is the head of an
unstable powercult. There’s no organization here other than the stultifying
hierarchy of a dysfunctional family suffering under the arbitrary whims of an
imbalanced and abusive patriarch. The only people who thrive under a system
like this are the ones who get off on suffering. I hope that’s not a familiar
dynamic from your own life. It’s all our dynamic now. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">few</i> people in
and around the political center are waking up to the status of the powercult in
our midst, and the fact that the relationship between the two major political
parties in this country has for years been purely abusive and largely symbolic.
One fun thing to look for when you have the daily pundit shows on in the
background: the frequency with which guests drop pretense and actively appeal
to the TV audience to become more engaged. It’s happening a lot more now than
you might think, if you didn’t often watch those kinds of shows. Measuring the
frequency with which the pundit class manages to overcome their professional detachment
in order to express human fear is as good a measure as any other to judge the
severity of the day’s cavalcade of atrocity.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Things aren’t going badly. Life-wise. I realized a few more
things about myself, over the Spring – a couple more new demons bubbled up from
the bottom of the cauldron. Only this time it turned out that I had been lying
to myself to cover up something <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">good</i>.
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
There’s a more cynical way to write the last sentence of the
next-to-previous paragraph: Measuring the frequency with which the stifled
humanity of the pundit class manages to reassert itself in the form of active
terror bubbling behind a surface of placid disassociation is as good a measure
as any other with which to judge the severity of the day’s cavalcade of
atrocity.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Some things are still personal even for me and even in the
context of these essays. I don’t talk about other people here, for one. That
may give my work a slightly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">haw haw</i>)
hermetic or even self-obsessed quality – well, I don’t think I have the right
to air anyone’s dirty laundry but my own. Take me at my word, however, when I
say that the work of becoming a better person must also be done at subterranean
levels of the soul unglimpsed by passers-by, and just like those marvelous
cross-sections of superhero headquarters in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Official Handbooks,</i> there’s whole underground complexes somewhere
around my basal ganglia filled with snakes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you
don’t even know about.</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
One thing about these kind of abusive powercults, though:
they don’t outlive their founder’s success. They <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">can’t. </i>The only thing keeping the structure in place is the
inexorable downward pressure being exerted from the apex of the pyramid. When
the exchange of power in an organization is purely vertical – that is, strictly
hierarchical – there’s no other glue but every individual atomized actor’s fear
of the authoritarian. There’s little loyalty, save perhaps the bitter camaraderie
that naturally arises from the shared experience of living in the wake of emotionally
vindictive abusers. To the shrugged delectation of the hard father they make
elaborate ritual of stabbing each other in the back. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Anyway. I want to compliment the designers and developers
because they’ve really done a good job at keeping the game just new enough to
be interesting. I know it’s all different ways of packaging the same kinds of
incremental changes to the same infinitely complex game economy – but they keep
me interested. They keep me feeling invested even if I don’t spend any money.
That’s a neat trick. They add something significant to my life. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I tried to forgive myself for something that happened a long
time ago that wasn’t my fault. The problem with forgiving yourself is that
sometimes you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> don’t want to. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I don’t even remember what specifically pissed me off. Some
piddling petty bullshit with my parents. The kind of kitchen-table bullshit
that shouldn’t really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">get </i>to a grown
adult who pays taxes and votes by mail and everything. The gap between thought
and deed was the span of a razor’s edge and the impulse to hurt myself was
relieved as I hit the floor with my left fist as hard as I could. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Just because a powercult doesn’t operate under the same
rules as a standard political party it doesn’t mean any of the consequences,
damages, dead bodies, anguish, are any less real. On the contrary, because it
operates without any consideration of a future horizon beyond the emotional
register of the hard father, it operates completely without foresight of any
kind. People who try to discuss the political strategies of the moment are comprehensively
unable to perceive the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reality </i>of the
moment – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">which is that a powercult does
not operate under any rules </i>but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
capricious rule of the hard father.</i> When he is gone so disappears his rule
– if not always his machinery. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The satisfaction that I get from successfully jumping
through the game’s infinitely reiterating hoops is disproportionate to the
significance of the events themselves in a vacuum, I freely admit. The longer I
plug at it the more confident and in-control of the game environment I feel –
even if, as I’ve pointed out, it’s not any kind of immersive game in the sense
of role-playing as another person. It’s nice to feel shitty in so many other
parts of my life and have a place I can go where those matters really don’t –
matter. I guess I never <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">got</i> that part
of gaming before. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Some people just like telling other people what to do. Some
people like being told. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I’ve always done this. I’ve always lied about it. Always
managed to convince myself that it wasn’t really a serious problem, that it
couldn’t really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be</i> any kind of
serious problem. Self-harm was cutting or fire – the stuff I saw when I worked
at the hospital, like the kid whose forearms were covered in parallel rows of
the most precisely measured scars. Serious business. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Dudes just hit shit when they’re pissed, right? Right. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Anyway. Emperor Palpatine’s Leader ability is called,
naturally, Emperor of the Galactic Republic, and it reads, in full:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;">
Empire and Sith allies have +35%
Potency and +35% Max Health. Jedi and Rebel enemies have -35% Potency and -35%
Evasion. When an Empire ally inflicts a debuff during their turn, they gain 20%
Turn Meter. When a Sith ally inflicts a debuff during their turn, they recover
20% Health. When a debuff on an enemy expires, Empire and Sith allies gain 5%
Turn Meter. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holy moly.</i> Got all
that? The beauty part is that Darth Vader, of course, gets both faction
bonuses, which actually makes him quite decently playable with his master. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
(Trump voters wouldn’t know a real hard daddy if one choked
them off in front of the entire chain of command using only the Power of the
Dark Side.) </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Only this time, well. Not only did I do it in broad daylight
in front of two other people – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my
parents,</i> no less – but I seriously hurt myself. I went to the store and
bought a brace that I’m still wearing a week later. Typing isn’t so bad but
it’s still dicey to pick anything up.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I have a picture of my arm two days after I punched the
ground. Although I hit the ground straight-on with my knuckles the entire back
of my hand up through to my wrist was a single yellow bruise. It still hurts
right now. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The Zeta ability was the last sentence of that passage:
“When a debuff on an enemy expires, Empire and Sith allies gain 5% Turn Meter.”
Does that seem like much? It doesn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">look</i>
like much to see it in action. It’s a small but consistent incremental boost
that basically leads to Emperor Palpateams dominating any battle in which they
can draw first blood with the Emperor’s board-sweeping AoE attack. Remember,
every negative status effect in the game – including the Stuns he inflicts with
Power of the Dark Side – are carried via <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">debuffs.</i>
And now every debuff, when it expires, gives a little boost to the Empire’s
turn meters. It’s diabolical. Perfectly in character. Early advantage leads to
late-game domination, and there’s no relief from the onslaught once it gets
going. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
And I think – how many times have I done this? The knuckles
on my right fist are already sensitive and stiff. I always managed to forget.
It’s easy to tell yourself that you have “a little temper” that might need a
bit of work when you keep the kind of double-column books that erase all
outstanding accounts after around 48 hours. Hard to see a pattern when you
actively work to suppress the memories. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Why do I hate myself so deeply? Why do I hate myself <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so</i> deeply that even just the bare idea
that I could in time find the strength to forgive myself strikes such a deep chord
of fear and anger within me? </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I mean, can I just say – </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Going back to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
Police</i> of all bands in 2018 – trust me: it’s all going to make sense
eventually. The last year has been rough. The Police and Sting are figures from
my childhood who stopped being culturally relevant to my family before the end
of Reagan’s first term. It’s music I never got to hear a first time. They were one
of my parents’ bands for the duration of their career, so they played in the
car a lot. And then they stopped making music, and when he picked up again on
his own it was never the same. He’s got a new album out, I see it in Target
when I’m in there, it’s on one of the small shelves where they still sell CDs
for the few last weirdos like myself who don’t think it’s such a great idea having
all our music on diaphanous clouds that can be deleted at an oligarch’s whim. (Hey,
when Bowie died I walked across the room, pulled out the CD I wanted to listen
to, and had already ripped the crystal-clear audio to my computer in the time
you were still figuring out which streaming service had the Bowie catalog and
what restrictions applied which week.) It’s him and Shaggy, the reggae guy. Honestly?
Good for him. He’s 66. If he wants to fart around with motherfucking Shaggy and
fart out a reggae album in two thousand mother fucking eighteen it’s not like
he hasn’t been playing reggae on rock radio since Jimmy fucking Carter. He
still <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">somehow,</i> when I sit down and do
the hard work of measuring such things, has some cred in the bank, and considering
every fucking awful solo jam this man has done since 1983 just that fact should
impress upon you how much of a big deal those first five albums actually were. Did
you know he saved a giant chunk of the rainforest? No joke, he put a lot of
effort into conservation charities in the 80s at the height of his fame and
helped preserve millions of acres. There’s caveats that should go on that, I
believe, in terms of international charity being a profoundly crooked racket
and all the stuff that accrues around the field – they spend a lot of money on
parties. But still. Using the windfall of sudden fame and fortune to try and do
something for the world – there are arguably better ways to do it but
inarguably a lot worse. He saved a chunk of the rainforest <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> wrote “Every Breath You Take.” What have<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> you </i>done with your life? I mean, what I’m getting at, really, is
maybe not so much that Sting is 66 but that I’m 37. The Police released <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Synchronicity</i> in 1983, he was born in
1951 – do the math, dude peaked at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thirty
fucking two</i> and then got to spend basically the rest of his fucking life
taking a victory lap for writing “Every Breath You Take.” Nothing at all wrong
with that. I know, I’m a critic so I’m supposed to walk around and say things
like<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> honestly, everyone knows the
Replacements should have called it a day after </i>Pleased to Meet Me<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> and those last discs are just Paul
Westerberg albums in all but name </i>but that’s not how my mind works. I love
prolific artists. I fucking adore Guided By Voices even as I practice very
selective purchasing habits regarding the band’s output. I can appreciate
people who know their limits and act accordingly . . . but I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">admire </i>people who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">go hard on the fucking paint</i> every single fucking time even when it
isn’t working as well as it used to, and I mean, come on, I know <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> don’t like those last five R.E.M.,
but I love and cherish them, even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Around
the Sun</i> which I will still swear up and down under torture is the only
truly bad slash unlistenable album my all-time favorite band ever made (I’ve
done the numbers, trust me, I could never hear “Harborcoat” again for the rest
of my life and that would probably still remain true). A good band is
interesting even when they’re bad. The Police discography is very good but it’s<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> not</i> perfect, every album has stuff that
hasn’t aged well, Sting’s lyrics are what they are. There’s another world where
Sting sticks around for a few more albums and it’s perfunctory and he’s
obviously just eyeing the door and sticking around for his mates, that version
of the Police ends in a lot more acrimony; there’s another world where Sting
quits just like he did in ours but critics carpet bomb <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dream of the Blue Turtles</i> so hard it makes Travis Morrison
wince and he comes crawling back for five more perfect and better albums with
the other two. That version of the group does a leg with Jane’s Addiction in
1989, loves the sound so much they decamp to LA right before grunge hits the
west coast and end up recording a less maudlin <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Achtung Baby.</i> It’s wild, you’d love it. If you didn’t get that
Travis Morrison joke you probably have better things to do than be weirdly
obsessive about Pitchfork’s rating system – specifically, weirdly obsessive
about how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bad </i>it is. I have never
written for Pitchfork and honestly that’s something I wouldn’t still mind
checking off the ol’ bucket list at some point, if there’s time, but I also
know I really hate working within . . . basically <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any </i>kind of structure whatsoever, so the chances of me doing any
freelance work that isn’t strictly by invitation are slim and none and slim
just caught the last train outta town if you know what I mean. So those five
albums – that’s all they had in the tank, for better or for worse. And the
weird thing is that I used to be a lot more cool about that stuff when I was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">younger. </i>More accepting, if not
appreciative (if you see the distinction). But the older I get the more I
think, you know, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’d have really liked to
have another half-dozen albums from these guys. </i>I’d have loved to hear what
they did when they got bored. Now it’s not like anyone has a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">responsibility</i> to be artistically
fecund. No one owes me <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">personally</i>
sticking it through to the bitter end. It’s not even like Sting stopped making
music. But I didn’t make a Walter Benjamin joke lightly. He weighs on me, as
much as I actually dislike much of his writing – he was just brilliant <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">enough</i> that his unfinished and
disorganized scraps changed the course of western philosophy. Of course,
there’s some context I’m omitting. I used to think I liked Benjamin because he
was a fellow disorganized bloviator with a large book collection who got by
because his biggest fans were other writers. We never got to see what mid or
late period Benjamin had to say about the world because he killed himself while
trying to escape fascists. I don’t<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> think </i>I’m
going to die that way. But just the fact that I have to precede the statement
with a serious pause should tell you all you need to know about how confident I
am in said statement. I don’t think it’s going to happen not because I don’t
think there are people in the upper echelons of the United States government
who get hard every night imagining Queer Genocide ’18 but based primarily on
logistics and geography. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s about where
we’re at.</i> We’re all in the same basket now. We all join hands and walk
together in the light of truth. Sting could have retired at the age of
thirty-three, never again recorded another note of music, and died secure in
his legacy. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What’s this really about?</i>
Is it about waking up at 37 and realizing even if by some miracle you manage to
survive the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">action packed fascist dystopia
of 2018 </i>you still have to deal with the fact that you’re almost forty and
you have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nothing to show for decades of
your life spent marking time in anticipation of the arrival of the realization
that there was nothing left to wait for?</i> I wonder if he ever thinks about
what he lost, sitting around whatever kind of grand palatial English
countryside estate “Message in a Bottle” buys you. I can’t do anything about
the fact that I didn’t find out I was trans until I was 35. There’s nothing in
that box but a deep hole of inchoate howling regret unfixed to any signifier –
there’s no one to blame, I just didn’t know, it went down the way it did for a
lot of weird fucked up reasons that are just the way they are, and I wasted so
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">I don’t think there’s anything on the band’s first album, 1978’s </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Outlandos d’Amour, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">that quite prepares the listener for the sophomore effort</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> The debut isn’t a</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> bad </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">album. It’s got “So Lonely” and “Can’t Stand Losing You” on it, and if it were those two songs long it’d be five stars. Unfortunately it also has “Roxanne,” a song I didn’t like when I was younger and which I </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">really</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> don’t like now that I’m older and know that sex workers have more important things to do with their time than assuage the feelings of sensitive young men. </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Outlandos d’Amour</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> also has a song about a blow-up doll, which should tell you how young these guys were. The latter is far more forgivable than the former, especially since the former doesn’t get a lot of airplay anymore. It’s actually funnier than I’m making it sound. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">Now let’s talk about what writers block is and what writers block isn’t, at least for me. It’s never a matter of ideas – goodness, no. I never struggle </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">there.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> What I struggle with is mental illness. What I struggle with is my mood and my energy. What I struggle with is feelings running hot and cold like a broken spigot at all times of the day. What I struggle with is being able to </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">focus</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> my thoughts, not a lack of them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">The problem with Sting is that he was – objectively speaking, that is, as someone with no interest in men – a </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">spectacularly</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> attractive person. He also had a pretty distinctive voice with a good range, and could even play bass pretty well. The problem was that he didn’t really have a lot of ideas in his head. Everything good about the Police comes from the energy those two talented young men and one not quite as young man summoned while playing together. Everything bad about the Police can be summed up in the lyric sheet for </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Ghost in the Machine</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">This book exists because I knew I’d need it. Writing fantasy books and comic book reviews is fun, </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">extraordinarily</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> good fun. Healing. But then I also wrote another book that genuinely meant something to the world, meant something to people, to </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">a lot </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">of people who’ve read it and reread it and told me so, even before it’s ever been published anywhere but on my blog. It brought me closer to people, and brought people into my life . . . it’s funny, the other week someone made a comment under one of my articles at the </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Journal</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> that I was a famously self-obsessed writer. That’s true, I mean, you’re reading a book about my cell phone game right now, and if you think about that it’s kind of a </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">baller move</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> to get up in the morning one day and decide </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">you’re going to frogmarch your most dedicated fans through 50-70K words about your cell phone game.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> But somehow people, I have always suspected, would get the point, that the game was always just a spark for the essays, something to build thoughts around since people really seem to </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">like</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> me talking about Star Wars, and it’s a good commercial hook for when they end up between two covers. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">The Sting we meet with the Police is someone who really </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">wishes </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">he were a deep thinker, but just isn’t. He wrote a song that namedropped Nabakov – since we’re discussing questionable attitudes towards women. Young men will be lascivious, it’s part and parcel of rock & roll, well baked-in by now – but then he turned around and wrote a generational wedding anthem that just happened to also be about stalking a woman? Again, it’s not like it’s isn’t a decent song – but, I mean, </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">come on. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">How can anyone ever really hear “Every Breath You Take” again? We’ve all heard it too many times. It makes sense on </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Synchronicity,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> so I don’t have a problem with it there in context. It’s a dark song on an album stuffed with dark songs. On its own and in the wild it’s thornier and unsettling. It’s not </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">supposed</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> to be something you hum in the checkout line. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">There’s no one way I compose essays. It changes depending on the challenge. </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Zeroes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> was always conceived as an exercise in improvisation: I wanted to do something else in the vein of </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always The Best Day Of My Life</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> but knew I didn’t have it in me to write another book </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">quite</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> like that one. Some of the lessons I learned from that book were negative ones. It doesn’t always pay to know precisely how my essays are going to end because when I work with that kind of determinism I can struggle to stay engaged in the writing. Writing is a very spontaneous process for me and its very easy for my brain to get sick of an idea before I write it down. That gets to be problematic when I get occasionally blocked. When I am too exhausted or emotionally drained to vent my ideas they curdle. Like the last few chapters of the first book of </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Balthasar Foeman,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> which have been written in my head for a month but which I can’t bring myself to write. Sigh. I’m sorry, Balthasar. It’s not your fault. </span></span></span></div>
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Sometimes your life changes in dramatic bursts, thunderbolts that appear from the blue heralding new ways of living. It doesn’t always, however – most of the time change is slow and needs to be shepherded. You don’t just get up in the morning and say “I’ve changed!” Nope! You have to work for it. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">But here’s the thing about those Zeta mats: while they are by far the single most valuable resource in the game, they are also directly tied to the Ships minigame that most players justifiably loathe. I don’t loathe it but it’s still not my favorite. I do </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">really</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> like one aspect of it: because there are just naturally fewer ships than characters, the Ships metagame changes a lot more slowly. That’s why I’ve focused so tightly on building the characters who work best for the ships. The Arena meta changes frequently – every time there’s a significant new update a new faction takes hold. Right now it’s Sith, led in most cases by a significantly improved Emperor Palpatine. Getting two Zetas in an update took him from being mostly unplayable to the vanguard of the meta in the blink of an eye, which should tell you how valuable those abilities can be. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">Sometimes when you do the hard work of changing, of rebuilding yourself into something new and different, the changes can take on a life of their own. I came to understand a while back that the velocity of change in my life had advanced beyond my ability to control. My initial instinct was to frame that statement by saying that it was a fearful realization, but I don’t really think it was. Even good change can be jarring, though. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">My frustration with the game stems largely from the fact that it’s still a young enough game that the developers are able to very forcefully dictate the shape of the metagame. My prediction – my whole long-game strategy for </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Heroes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> – is premised on the fact that this is a </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">very</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> rich game environment that could conceivably support expansion indefinitely. They’re certainly not going to stop making Star Wars any time soon. It’s a rich enough game environment that, if the game sticks around long enough, the meta will gradually grow more sophisticated in a way that enfranchises people who have been playing the game since release. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">I got a box of snakes in my head. That’s my metaphor, that’s the way I choose to deal with the fact that for whatever reason life has chosen to compensate my writing ability with a head that is absolutely stuffed with reptiles. When it gets bad I can feel them wriggling around in there. I honestly can’t say how much dysphoria I feel because the rest of my brain is so loud that on most days it’s just not on the forefront of my mind. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">Would it surprise anyone to hear that I really like Copeland? Occasionally his drumming skips ahead a few years to post-hardcore. He’s not beholden to playing the same fills as any other drummer in rock history – he likes to play with his fills in the same way that a guitarist plays with a riff. Listen to “The Bed’s Too Big Without You,” later on </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Regatta de Blanc</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">. The song is an excuse for Copeland to play every kind of fill he can think of around a really quite intricate rocksteady template. The lyrics are, eh, whatever. Bed’s pretty big. OK. Can we get a mix without the vocals? </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">I’m making a number of assumptions here, any of which could turn out to be wrong. The first assumption is simply that the game will </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">last </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">long enough for this effort to pay off in any significant way. It’s a product of Disney’s contract with EA Games, a contract that was recently sorely tested when the release of one of the </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Battlefield</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> games was so botched it made world governments to pay serious attention to the idea of regulating the industry. But </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">this</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> game remains profitable, I can only assume, from the fact that new expansions and promotions are thick on the ground. It’s essentially a rolling advertisement for whatever the latest quarterly Star Wars product is, so it sort of sells itself? </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">That’s also another reason why I’ve never been tempted to spend any real money on the game: it is, at it’s core, an advertisement designed to get me excited about spending more money on Star Wars. I don’t need </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">any</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> extra inducement to do that, thank you very fucking much. Paying for the privilege of being advertised at seems like the dictionary definition of foolish. Also why I try never to wear clothing with big obvious logos, with the exception of shoes where it’s pretty much unavoidable because, yeah, Nikes really </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">are</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> that comfortable when you’ve got painfully broad and flat feet, and Doc Martens really </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">are </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">kind of inevitable when you’re this gay.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">It is sobering to recognize the amount of effort I put, previously, into denying that I was indeed mentally ill. Dear reader, I assure you, I am. This is just one of those things literally every person who has ever got close to me figures out, usually sooner rather than later. When someone sees a part of you that you can’t really control, that changes their opinion of you. If someone sees you lose your shit and stays in your life, they’re probably pretty decent. (Shout out to the three people who I still talk to from high school, all of who saw me lose my shit on pretty much a daily basis for four years solid. You’re all good people for sticking with me even though my life took a few </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">pretty unexpected twists and turns!)</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">This explains my desire to get the Phoenix Squad characters wrapped up as quickly as possible: they’re not going anywhere, yes, but by that same token </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">they’re not going anywhere.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> They will </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">always </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">be powerful in certain aspects of the game because they work extraordinarily well together, and were designed to. They were also designed to be strong in Ships, which they are. They’re great in Raids. They tick all the boxes for characters who I am confident will continue to useful in many aspects of the game for a long time to come. They are next to useless in the Arena, but they are good in all the things that enable you to build up the supplies that allow you to respond more proactively </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">to</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> the Arena meta. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">So I knew if </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Galaxy of Zeroes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> was going to work it needed something at its heart to fill the same role as “Let’s Talk About What We Talk About When We Talk About Teaching </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Let’s Talk About Love</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">” from my last non-fiction book – that is, it was time to look at what I had assembled in the first third of the book and see where to go from there. Some of what I was happiest with in that book were the sections where I gave myself a specific challenge to improvise about. It doesn’t perhaps seem as obviously improvisational to you, dear reader, but that’s how I built “Let’s Talk About …” </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">The lyrics to “Message in a Bottle” aren’t that bad but they’re not that great either. Like the best of Sting’s lyrics, they’re functional and broadly descriptive. Not one for investigating complex interior states through rock lyrics, our boy. “Love can mend your life,” he says before also noting, “but love can break your heart.” It sounds good in the moment but it doesn’t pay to linger. It</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> really</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> doesn’t. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">A funny thing happened halfway through the writing of </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always The Best Day Of My Life</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> . . . well, maybe not so funny. We had a presidential election that didn’t quite go the way we were expecting. Suddenly a book that had been conceived as a group of quieter personal essays had to change. It took a while to figure it out – if you go back, there’s a significant gap between “Trifles, Light As Air” and “Let’s Talk About …” The book changes because the situation changes. If I’ve done my job it’s </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">supposed</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> to read as a disruption. I want to communicate, to anyone who wants to hear, how much it sucked to be on the cusp of a new era in my life and suddenly discover that the timeframe to dystopia was actually a lot shorter than I had anticipated. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">Of the five Zeta abilities required for a fully operational Phoenix Squad, I’ve still got Hera and Zeb left to get past Level VIII (of XII, for context). But the other four (Kanan, Ezra, Chopper, and Sabine) are all at Level XII, Ezra and Chopper are completely filled out, and Kanan and Sabine are only short a couple gear slots each. They’ve all had their Zetas (except for Chopper, who has no Zeta but is very powerful without it). It didn’t take anywhere near as long as I anticipated to get those four up. I’m putting Hera and Zeb aside for the moment because there’s really no reason I </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">can’t </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">go for Palpatine right this second. I decided to focus more aggressively on the Sith and Empire characters who make up the bulk of the meta at present, because – well, at this point why </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">not? </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">It’s a </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">cell phone game,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> why am I hesitant to compete? </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">But the song!</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> It’s a monster from the first bang of the snare to the last fade. It seems effortless, just three guys jamming together in the studio – but it’s because they’re good that it looks so easy, and that you don’t mind “a hundred billion bottles / washed up on the shore.” </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">See, people are isolated! </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">I’m not really that concerned about trying to sell </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Is Always</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> … right now. It sells itself. I anticipate it will perhaps be an easier thing to sell fantasy stories than multi-genre autobiographical critical essays about – well, about fucking </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">everything</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> to such an absurd degree that the Venn diagram of people who share my unique tastes is pretty much just me in the center listening to Interpol and writing about Star Wars obsessively while also, like, being newly but </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">enthusiastically</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> gay for girls. As #brands go, it’s not a bad one? </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">What seems to work for me is trusting that my readers will care about the things I care about for the same reason they always have: if I’m doing my job as a writer I can explain to you why it matters to me, and if I can explain to you why it matters to me, you’ll understand a part of me that you didn’t before. I just dyed my hair bright neon red and that can’t hurt either. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">Getting there is just a matter of farming. And I’ve been farming every day </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">– every single day –</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> since January of 2016. I downloaded the game just a few days into the year that changed my life forever. It was the last good decision he ever made, because the game gave me something to hold on to in the lowest moments of my life. And it hurts to admit that something so small and petty as surviving to the next drop was literally the only thing keeping me alive for a while in the Spring of that year, but it’s not something I’m likely to forget anytime soon. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">I can kid Sting because he gets to cry himself to sleep tonight on a mattress that costs more than I will make this year, no doubt. And that’s even probably if I sign a book deal tomorrow. The joke is that Sting is rich enough and well-ensconced in the pantheon of rock that there is very little anyone could say at this late date that could possibly change that (barring an awful #MeToo moment, which, yeah, please,</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> no</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">). But the </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">real</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> joke is that </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">this guy,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> this same guy who’s always so excited about desert roses and brand new days and seems</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> really</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> eager to sell me something even when he’s not – he used to </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">have</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> something. </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;">You know, that’s life. When you say you’re going to get your shit together you don’t work on getting </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">some</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> of your shit together. You work on</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> all</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: small;"> of the shit. What’s the point otherwise?</span></span></span></div>
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