Aaron’s inversion of the traditionally villainous role of Cain and the saintly role of Noah is a deliberate subversion and deconstruction of the Judeo-Christian myth of the Deluge… in which he critiques the most outwardly pious and devout but inwardly hypocritical and irreligious.
The Force Awakens is a new A New Hope… the very particular plot points of Episode IV hit with the precision Kenobi strangely attributed to Imperial Stormtroopers.
While Robinson’s still playing with DC’s archetypes, such are set within Marvel’s multiverse, and if he can replicate for the House of Ideas the success he had at the Distinguished Competition, Squadron Supreme should prove among the best books to come out of All-New Marvel Now.
In Darth Vader Annual #1, the power of the Dark Side is on display, upping the ante once again, not by destroying the world of Shu-torun, but by subjugating it. Vader tightens his grip, but to Leia’s inevitable dismay, this star system does not slip through his fingers.
There are few things I love more in life than a meaty drop of exposition. I don’t know how to say that without such sounding sarcastic, but it’s as sincere a statement as every I’ve spoken. My favorite chapters of The Lord of the Rings aren’t the battles of Helm’s Deep or Pellenor Fields;…
Heart of the Sea shows the [oil] industry, through the lens of ages past, simply as it is, for good and for ill: the danger, the greed, the politics… and the thrill, the upward mobility, the way to a better life headlong into hard weather and harder work.
That strange juxtaposition of dinosaur subjects and an old west setting is one of several examples of the film mixing motifs without purpose or payoff.
No little girl watching this show would look at Jessica Jones and think, “When I grow up, I want to be like her.” If there were tie-in merchandise for said little girl’s parents to buy her, it’d be a shard of broken glass and a bottle of cheap whiskey.
Moore is right in that some fiction really does have a god hiding beneath the surface of the page, and Promethea itself bears the marks of inspiration more than any sacred scriptures or any other product of human ingenuity.
The genius of Star Wars #13 comes from Jason Aaron taking all of the various evil incarnations of the aforementioned archetypes, as established by Kieron Gillen in his run on Darth Vader, and pitting such against their classic counterparts, often to comedic effect.
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