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May 13, 2004
It's A Bird - Part III
There's another review of "It's A Bird" in Salon.com:
"But if you still believe at this late date that comics are strictly for kids, take a look at DC's adult readers' line, Vertigo. Hitchcock would be proud of that title, as the protagonists of Vertigo's newly released or upcoming "Lovecraft," "Y: The Last Man" and "It's a Bird" are harried males at the mercy of oppressive -- sometimes feminizing -- forces arrayed against them..."
"Steven Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen's "It's a Bird" seizes upon the Superman mythos as its point of departure, but it is actually about Seagle's struggle to write a Superman comic as his family succumbs to Huntington's disease. "The two subjects collided in a unique amalgam of family history and Superman deconstruction," Seagle explained to me in an interview. "I realized I could tell one story using the other as an emotional punching bag, and that seemed like something I had never seen done before."
"There have been other metafictional moments in comics -- Grant Morrison's appearance as himself in his own superhero comic 'Animal Man' comes to mind -- but 'It's a Bird' is a bigger departure for comics than just metafiction," he added. "This is a book about the real-world Superman, the one who exists only as a comic book character. It's about the absurdity of trying to chronicle a man of infinite powers while living in a world populated with people whose 'powers' -- to speak, to walk, to feel -- are waning."
Posted by Dave at May 13, 2004 05:45 AM
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