Looking Glass Hearts
March 24th, 2011
Being: an index to my recently completed series of posts on stories, mirrors and what happens when you mistake one for the other.
Since I botched the timing of these essays, I thought I’d link to them all in order, just in case anyone felt like humouring me and reading them all as part of the one big story:
- Short and to the Pointless #1: The Like Trap (a short post on reader identification in Phonogram and Eddie Campbel’s autobiographical comics)
- Short and to the Pointless #2: Josie Long and Dodgem Logic (about the deadly combination of bad comics and bad romantic advice)
- Looking Glass Hearts Forever (a long post on the Scott Pilgrim comics and movie)
- Short and to the Pointless #3: The Playwright (on the fact that you can no more write your way out of a story than you can jump your way out of freefall)
Come on, take a dive with me – you might not regret it!
All of that blather aside, I’m pretty happy with this little essay series. It’s properly modular, just like Seven Soldiers wasn’t, but I also think it pays to read the whole thing at once.
Agree/disagree/tl;dr?
Please feel free to let me know in the comments!
March 25th, 2011 at 11:23 am
Well, you know what I think already…
March 25th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
That I do mate, thanks for the encouragement! This is all your fault anyway, by the way – you put the idea of doing a series back in my head!
March 27th, 2011 at 7:21 am
I read the first post when it went up and have been meaning to comment, and I really must get around to that, plus, oh look, more posts to read, argh, I will find time, I swear, hey, this whole “timely manner” thing is just a fascist way to make us buy into “new things”, right? right?
March 28th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
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March 31st, 2011 at 6:48 am
David – yeah, fuck doing things in a timely manner! Especially when the “things” in question include my posts – I’m glad that you’re readingthem at all mate!
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