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Subj: Did you try looking for it under the sofa Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 05:08:36 am EST (Viewed 1 times) | Reply Subj: posting again after my first attempt was lost... Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 01:37:59 pm EST (Viewed 4 times) | ||||||
Quote: New Avengers: H.G. Wells (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau). Obviously, I'm looking to fulfill the promise of the New Avengers as the catch-all for adventure in the Marvel universe. Skrulls invading? Kang conquering? Mutants running amok? Scientists causing strife? Go to the source, I say.I'd go for someone who can write the characters interacting and "get" the high concept of a band of heroes striving for justice. I'd pick T.H. White of Once and Future King fame, just because I'd love to see one of my favourite writers on my favourite team. Quote: Captain America: Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Planet, Jeckyll & Hyde) I felt like I should name an American author here, but really what I want most out of Cap stories are high adventure, and Stevenson brings that in spades. (Actually, my second choice was probably Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers), so forget the American thing all together.)I could really see this one. I was wondering about what Walt Whitman could do with Cap. He'd certainly get the speeches right. Quote: Superman: I can't think of a great Superman choice right now. For "Batman", however, I'd go with Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). A dark genius driven by a personal loss to defeat an abstract enemy that preys on humanity (crime/death)? I think she can get into that head... as well as the understanding the obsessive relationship between Batman and the Joker.For Superman I'd go with H. Rider Haggard, creator of two-fisted adventurer Alan Quartermain. Haggard could blend the amazing with the everyday so he could get the Clark/Supes divide, and he always made sure there was a spark of romance in the stories. Batman has such pulp roots it's easy to try and fit one of the classic pulp writers to him, but I think I'd go right back to Chaucer. The range of characters and situations in The Canterbury Tales could fit right there in the streets of Gotham. Quote: Astro City: Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days). Average citizens finding themselves swept up in the adventures of godlike characters and madmen? Society leaping forward with new advances while struggling to understand them and the impact they may have? Verne's the man. (Also my top choice for "Fantastic Four".)I think Astro City's uniqueness comes from its oblique take presenting human stories behind the superhero stuff. Hemingway, perhaps? Quote: Star Wars: George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm). Who could better make the Empire all that George Lucas dreams it could be?"Dark Side Good, Light Side Bad." Forn this one I'd unship Narnia writer and pre-eminent theologian C.S. Lewis. Star Wars is at its heart a struggle between good and evil played on a galactic scale but also in the hearts of the protagonists. Lewis did all that seventy years ago with That Hideous Strength. Quote: Buffy: Jonathon Swift (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal) Buffy needs to be written by someone with a satirical eye and a knack for casting traits of everyday social pressures into fantastic creatures and set-ups. Swift has that down pat. Plus, Spike could really make an excellent case for eating babies.I like that match. I'd go right back to the source, though, and appoint Bram Stoker himself. Dracula is a book about a band of heroes desperately combining to protect the world against supernatural menace, guided by a wise scholar with an extensive library. Quote: Pet Avengers: Jack London (Call of the Wild) Probably self-explanatory.How about Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories? "We'll catch that 'ol Ducktor Doom alright, Bre'r Lockjaw, jest you see! Why I wus born an' bred in Avengers Mansion!" | |||||||
