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Empowered has been clawing back from that brink for the last nine volumes. It's definitely not for everyone, but it overcame its origins as somebody's heroines-in-peril bondage commission a long time ago.
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Lurdiak posted:Ah stuff it. People make excuses for that garbage all the time and I will never buy it. It's softcore bondage porn, just stop lying to yourselves. Nah. The last few volumes of Empowered in particular have been pretty much walking the line between playing superheroes straight and parodying them, particularly the last one. It's actually one of the more interesting turnarounds in the field as long as you can get through the first few volumes, although that is going to depend entirely on your tolerance for Adam Warren's style.
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You know, a superhero who has a body cam is, if anything, weirdly prescient.
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Gripweed posted:Empowered is bad. Yeah, I think that's a fair reading. I do like Adam Warren, mostly for his relentless inventiveness; he's got a lot of '90s Warren Ellis going on, where there are tossed-off one-panel ideas all over his work that other writers would use for the basis of an entire story, but for him, they're just world-building. There's a lot about Empowered's universe that I'd like to see him explore at greater length.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Speaking of Ellis, I've been rereading Transmetropolitan, and it holds up really well. I think I might like it even more than Planetary. There's a lot about Transmet that has aged surprisingly well, and a few things that were disturbingly prescient. Darick Robertson did a weirdly good job anticipating a bunch of streetwear trends, and that early issue where Spider attends the fascist rally was if anything not fictional enough.
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Dec 27, 2019 22:27
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Rhyno posted:Was cat grown meat, ready to eat a thing back then? It was one of the background things but I dont know if anyone except madmen had that notion. I know it's mentioned in passing in Neuromancer, so it'd at least been in the conversation at some point.
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Vincent posted:LOL at a journalist who only writes a column for one newspaper being able to make a living, though. They make it reasonably clear that Spider's leveraging his past infamy to get a real sweetheart of a deal, and that the City may encompass most of the population of eastern North America if not more. You can kind of see Ellis backpedaling late in the series with "feedsites" as the New Media started to take shape, but it makes enough sense early on.
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Madkal posted:I first hear about Blake from Batman: TAS which had an episode titled Tyger Tiger, and quotes the poem in the episode itself. I thought I was so smart for knowing that poem (thanks to the show). Also, did you know that you can't read in dreams? There's a section in Uncharted 3 that, while basically homaging the lost-in-the-desert sequence from Lawrence of Arabia, has the antagonist recite some of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," without attribution. I have often wondered how many students in the intervening years have gotten in trouble with an English teacher for not realizing it was a quotation.
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