[B5JMS] Is "Supreme Power" going anywhere?...

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From: scott34494 at yahoo.com (Scott Dubin)
Date: 29 Dec 2003 18:13:57 -0800
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smileoftheshadow at aol.com (SmileOfTheShadow) wrote in message news:<20031229182545.04179.00002164 at mb-m29.aol.com>...
> >Some of us dig it quite a bit. I am enjoying the character studies, 
> >the humorous shots at the superhero genre (wearing glasses as 
> >a disguise, etc.) and the adult way that the material is being 
> >presented. 
> >
> >Thanks for that, JMS.
> 
> Agreed. but us crazy JMS fans know exactly how his stories tend to flush out
> and that it's always worth the wait :)  Has anyone else noticed that his
> writing just keeps getting better?
> 
> Jon

I find Amazing Spider-man man to be pure bleh, but Jeremiah season 2
is fantastic.  Judging from Jeremiah season 2 I'd say yeah, he's
getting better and better.

Supreme Power is great too.  The problem with Amazing Spider-man,
possibly due to the nature of the book, is it's so often unambitious.

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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 30 Dec 2003 07:27:54 GMT

>Supreme Power is great too.  The problem with Amazing Spider-man,
>possibly due to the nature of the book, is it's so often unambitious.

I always try to break up criticism into fair and unfair, productive and
counter-productive, and I think that's a fair criticism.  When I came onto the
book, it had been angst ridden and kind of a downer for so long that one of the
things I wanted to do was make it a fun book, the kind of book you feel good
about reading.

Of course, the trouble with this is that it necessitates less ambitious stories
because you only get the big stories by putting your character up a tree and
throwing really big rocks at him.

Having said that, though, I think I'm nearing the limit of what I can handle on
primarily fun stories...I think it's about time to start throwing rocks at him
again.

We all come up snake-eyes sooner or later, y'know....

 jms

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