Comments on: The Best of San Diego Comic-Con, and Goodbye to All That http://www.woodka.com/2009/07/28/the-best-of-san-diego-comic-con-and-goodbye-to-all-that/ “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:39:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: gerry rosser http://www.woodka.com/2009/07/28/the-best-of-san-diego-comic-con-and-goodbye-to-all-that/comment-page-1/#comment-162033 gerry rosser Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:18:43 +0000 http://www.woodka.com/?p=3510#comment-162033 I always seem to be grousing, and I don't really mean to. I was not a fan of comics when I was a kid. As an adult, I see them as amateurish drawing and writing. When you make a person with superpowers your protagonist, you have to include a vulnerability, and then every story, to have a story, ends up being, in essence, about that vulnerability (usually including an evil genius who has an angle for exposing that vulnerability and a laughable personal agenda. The things become a "one trick pony" sort of affair. Worst part, maybe, is the execrable genre of films based on comics. When you rub too much money up against too little plot, the result has little chance of being anything but a triumph of special effects, it seems to me. On the other hand, they say San Diego has the finest climate in the nation! I always seem to be grousing, and I don’t really mean to. I was not a fan of comics when I was a kid. As an adult, I see them as amateurish drawing and writing. When you make a person with superpowers your protagonist, you have to include a vulnerability, and then every story, to have a story, ends up being, in essence, about that vulnerability (usually including an evil genius who has an angle for exposing that vulnerability and a laughable personal agenda. The things become a “one trick pony” sort of affair.

Worst part, maybe, is the execrable genre of films based on comics. When you rub too much money up against too little plot, the result has little chance of being anything but a triumph of special effects, it seems to me.

On the other hand, they say San Diego has the finest climate in the nation!

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