I wish I had written that.
Most of the time when I finish reading a comic or novel, my mind starts going over the story and seeing how I would have done it differently. Where I would have zigged when the author zagged. How I would, egotistically improper, improved the work. I think the more you write the more you do these kinds of things.
Very rarely do I put down a book and think: “I wish I had written that”. I wish I could write that type of story. A story that shows the author has gone to a place mentally that no one else probably has ever gone. I got that feeling last night. I had just finished reading the latest SWAMP THING trade LOVE IN VAIN and it left me with just one question:
“Josh Dysart… who hurt you?”
It’s a love story in the same way that Lord of the Rings is a “road movie’. Josh brings a very twisted take on Arcane and really makes him the centerpiece of the story. Swamp Thing has really become like an occasional god who sits and contemplates his navel until someone goes just a little too far and then he lumbers in to deal with it. The story is more about the things around Swamp Thing than about the title character himself and it works better that way. No disrespect meant to anyone who has touch the character in between, but to me this is the best Swamp Thing story since Alan Moore finished his run.
I actually sat and talked to Josh a month or so back and we talked about the art on the book. I’ll be honest, the art of Enrique Breccia made it hard for me to read the Andy Diggle trade and I told Josh as much. Well, I would like to retract this statement. Love in Vain is actually two stories, the first is Breccia the second is Timothy Green II and I know and really like Timothy’s work… but when I got to the second story I had gotten so into the story that I was missing Breccia’s work. He has such an organic feel to his work that it not only enhances the supernatural aspects of the story, but it gives you the feeling that you are reading an ancient epic. After writing this I’m going to go dig out the first trade and read it again.
If you haven’t been picking up the individual issues, then treat yourself to the trade. And if you have got the issues… by the trade anyway… we want to keep Josh and Enrique on this book for a very long time.
Most of the time when I finish reading a comic or novel, my mind starts going over the story and seeing how I would have done it differently. Where I would have zigged when the author zagged. How I would, egotistically improper, improved the work. I think the more you write the more you do these kinds of things.
Very rarely do I put down a book and think: “I wish I had written that”. I wish I could write that type of story. A story that shows the author has gone to a place mentally that no one else probably has ever gone. I got that feeling last night. I had just finished reading the latest SWAMP THING trade LOVE IN VAIN and it left me with just one question:
“Josh Dysart… who hurt you?”
It’s a love story in the same way that Lord of the Rings is a “road movie’. Josh brings a very twisted take on Arcane and really makes him the centerpiece of the story. Swamp Thing has really become like an occasional god who sits and contemplates his navel until someone goes just a little too far and then he lumbers in to deal with it. The story is more about the things around Swamp Thing than about the title character himself and it works better that way. No disrespect meant to anyone who has touch the character in between, but to me this is the best Swamp Thing story since Alan Moore finished his run.
I actually sat and talked to Josh a month or so back and we talked about the art on the book. I’ll be honest, the art of Enrique Breccia made it hard for me to read the Andy Diggle trade and I told Josh as much. Well, I would like to retract this statement. Love in Vain is actually two stories, the first is Breccia the second is Timothy Green II and I know and really like Timothy’s work… but when I got to the second story I had gotten so into the story that I was missing Breccia’s work. He has such an organic feel to his work that it not only enhances the supernatural aspects of the story, but it gives you the feeling that you are reading an ancient epic. After writing this I’m going to go dig out the first trade and read it again.
If you haven’t been picking up the individual issues, then treat yourself to the trade. And if you have got the issues… by the trade anyway… we want to keep Josh and Enrique on this book for a very long time.
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