tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13848504.post5648129712342304679..comments2023-09-09T04:03:00.560-05:00Comments on The Fortress of Soliloquy: A cheap shotUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13848504.post-47899356943596428612010-04-22T03:45:01.530-05:002010-04-22T03:45:01.530-05:00Is it because he's no longer particularly boun...<b>Is it because he's no longer particularly bound by editorial constraints? Is it because revamps allow him to freely pick and choose what continuity to acknowledge and ignore, rather than to just try to untangle things as he did before? Is it because he has a tendency to write books past the time that his ideas have run out? Is it because his quirks have magnified exponentially due to a lack of backlash from fans to keep him in check?</b><br /><br />I'd guess all of the above, even though I'm not a DC reader and am only passingly familiar with Johns's work. I've seen that kind of long-term decay happen to other writers: as a Spider-Man dork, Bendis and JMS immediately spring to mind.<br /><br />And if you want to talk about exponentially multiplying quirks, let's talk Chris Claremont. His affinity for over-the-top, unnecessary internal monologuing aside (come on, Chris, we <i>know</i> Cyclops just fired an optic blast; we're reading a <i>comic book</i>, for fuck's sake), he never seemed comfortable without at least a dozen amnesiac antiheroes with mysterious pasts.Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06661441668625677468noreply@blogger.com