Ghost of a flea: Ode to the Flea

July 26, 2004

Ode to the Flea

An ode! Just for me! And sensible thoughts about Dark Knight Returns and a bad turn in comic book history can be found at Let It Bleed.

DKR, Watchmen, Maus. These are held up as comics as �art�, the moment when the potential inherent in the medium was realized and brought to a large audience (Maus, of course, is not a superhero comic). While Maus was innovative, but not terribly good (I think it�s renown is largely due to the fact that it�s conceit was so striking, not that it told the story in a particularly good way), DKR was both: it was innovative and good. But good in a self-defeating way. Good because it was aesthetically pleasing. Bad because it ruined everything.

It should be obvious I have quite a bit more to say about this. Off to the comments section...

Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 26, 2004 08:38 AM

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I dedicate an entire post to further the flea's sex symbol status, and nothing. Fine.

Posted by: Rue at July 26, 2004 01:34 PM

Hey... this is not nothing!

Posted by: Flea at July 26, 2004 01:37 PM

Very well. I may have overreacted a little.

I blame my memory loss on the Okanagan's blazing heat.

Posted by: Rue at July 26, 2004 02:41 PM

I should see about something better nonetheless.

(It took me several tries with this post to discover I had Blacklisted the word "none"... does nobody use the expression "nonetheless"?)

Posted by: Flea at July 26, 2004 05:05 PM