Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Kitty and Wolverine (spoilers and alternate plot.....) Message-ID: <539@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 19:31:09 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.539 Posted: Wed Dec 5 19:31:09 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:00:31 EST References: <663@pucc-k> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 77 Summary: In article <663@pucc-k> afo@pucc-k (Flidais) writes: >off to Professor Xavier's. So, I thought I would provide a plot >synopsis on how I would have liked it to go.... (switch into heavy >fantasy mode) > > .... Now, Wolvie, Puck, and Yukio break up to attack the > headquarters. What follows is an orgy of destruction; Yukio filling someone with poisoned blades, Puck hacking and shooting a bevy of female bodyguards, Wolverine popping his claws into several people... > ..., he obligingly dies. Wolverine, Yukio, and Puck > quietly survey the scene before they hear the sirens of the > Tokyo police, who arrive to investigate just in time to see > the threesome leap off into the night. > > I figure after this, Wolverine decides to stay in Japan, and > he, Puck and Yukio decide to go (back?) into the mercenary > business. The continuing exploits of the three would make a > great series ... >Comments? (do I get my script-writng badge now?) Nice comment : Kudos for writing an alternate ending; it's a nice change from the reviews everyone writes. Alas, a comment which no one likes to hear: But, I really disliked what you wrote. Gee. First of all, I LIKE KITTY and am glad they are keeping her around. As a genuine teenager (not some super-powered teen-titan punk) she is both believable and interesting. Then: What is so interesting about a 6-page no-dialog fight scene? One page, yes: I could see someone like Spain drawing it in a fashion similar to his "Trashman: Agent of the Sixth International" pages. But six? VERY hard to keep up one's interest: it's almost impossible to show plot development in a protracted fight scene WITHOUT dialog. I know of many places where I enjoyed a moment of comic book violence which would never have gotten past the Comics Code in the old days. For example, Daredevil dropping Bullseye onto the tracks (very out of character for DD); Elektra stabbing the reporter in "Spiked" . Everyone's favorite killer, Wolverine, in the "God loves, Man kills" graphics novel, threatening to spike one of the anti-mutant death-squad if they didn't talk. This violence is effective because it is EVIL. DareDevil spends most of the Elektra/Bullseye subsequence on the edge of sanity, trying to reconcile his belief in the law with his emotional tendency to vigilante action. Elektra kills a perfectly normal, middle-aged man with a wife, after we've spent the whole issue becoming acquainted with him (actually they moved the panel showing him in the hospital and confessing that he'd "spiked" the Kingpin story to the next issue, but we BELIEVE he's dead). Wolverine has said, many times "I'm the best at what I do. But what I do isn't very nice.", and given indications of a very strong sense of honor and personal responsibility for his actions. I like Wolverine because he restrains what he is capable of, not because he generally acts like a berserker for hire. Violence is not enough. Trite as it sounds, you need "good", "love", "honor" and all those other concepts to make the story interesting. -- "But Dinsdale...Dinsdale usedsarcasm!" we all know where this quote came from, don't we? Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick