Baaaaa ha ha ha!!! Though a slight dilemma as I was actually reading it out loud in the classroom, as this relates to the arts, but I self censored (job security?) because one of my students definitely identifies woke.
Yes, a person really named Kibblesmith wrote a New Warriors reboot with a team of psychic twins named Snowflake and Safespace. I know it sounds like I made up that part too but no.
And yes, that cover is a mess. Any fair to middling Japanese woodblock print from the late Edo period (which print connoisseurs have long considered inferior to earlier work) beats this thing hands down.
You'd better get used to it. I have multiple comics projects starting up, motivated in part by the possibilities of preserving high culture in low culture implied by Japanese prints.
As you know, I am highly attuned to Japanese prints, which were, of course mostly made for a popular market, albeit an urban one (Tokyo). There were Osaka prints, but far fewer and of a much more limited range (nearly all had kabuki subjects). Your work may well be in line with that, but I was referring to what's put out by typical pop culture, for which my cynicism is now nearly total, so I'm scarcely open to even giving it the benefit of the doubt.
Baaaaa ha ha ha!!! Though a slight dilemma as I was actually reading it out loud in the classroom, as this relates to the arts, but I self censored (job security?) because one of my students definitely identifies woke.
I'm proud to be still poisoning young minds after all these years :)
I expect, Franklin, that you may agree with this:
"Above all else , the devil cannot stand to be mocked." C. S. Lewis
Wait.... This is real? See, this is a major problem nowadays -- The real thing is like a surreally ridiculous spoof of itself. Arrrrrrrrrgh... 😖
Yes, a person really named Kibblesmith wrote a New Warriors reboot with a team of psychic twins named Snowflake and Safespace. I know it sounds like I made up that part too but no.
See now that whole sentence just sounds like a parody.
And yes, that cover is a mess. Any fair to middling Japanese woodblock print from the late Edo period (which print connoisseurs have long considered inferior to earlier work) beats this thing hands down.
Franklin, I'm sorry, but I cannot relate, nor do I want to. I have a feeling this is meant for Hernan Bas.
You'd better get used to it. I have multiple comics projects starting up, motivated in part by the possibilities of preserving high culture in low culture implied by Japanese prints.
As you know, I am highly attuned to Japanese prints, which were, of course mostly made for a popular market, albeit an urban one (Tokyo). There were Osaka prints, but far fewer and of a much more limited range (nearly all had kabuki subjects). Your work may well be in line with that, but I was referring to what's put out by typical pop culture, for which my cynicism is now nearly total, so I'm scarcely open to even giving it the benefit of the doubt.