But it seems that I actually misinterpreted that image wrongly after all; the statue is Alan Moore, not Jesus. And it's debateable whether it's a beam being fired from the statue, or the van simply hitting the forcefield and fire spreading out across its surface.
As for the story, Joss's technique is actually reminding me a bit of my first term at university. School had been pretty easy, I'd coasted along getting good marks, but then I found myself in a tutorial with someone who was not only asking me searching questions about things I didn't know much about, but I couldn't even understand the concepts behind them. Let alone the vocabulary - I remember a couple of us afterwards having to go and look up exactly what "teleological" meant...
So I was floundering about trying desperately to understand what the hell was going on, and slowly slowly things started to fall into place, and I began to understand the tutor's questions and even (sometimes) come up with coherent replies. Reading Joss's comics feels a bit like that. He's operating on a higher plane than the rest of us, and storylines and plot developments that probably seem perfectly clear and straightforward to him are baffling to us ordinary mortals.
In other words, what he needs is a beta reader. :-)
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Date: 2008-08-13 06:48 pm (UTC)But it seems that I actually misinterpreted that image wrongly after all; the statue is Alan Moore, not Jesus. And it's debateable whether it's a beam being fired from the statue, or the van simply hitting the forcefield and fire spreading out across its surface.
As for the story, Joss's technique is actually reminding me a bit of my first term at university. School had been pretty easy, I'd coasted along getting good marks, but then I found myself in a tutorial with someone who was not only asking me searching questions about things I didn't know much about, but I couldn't even understand the concepts behind them. Let alone the vocabulary - I remember a couple of us afterwards having to go and look up exactly what "teleological" meant...
So I was floundering about trying desperately to understand what the hell was going on, and slowly slowly things started to fall into place, and I began to understand the tutor's questions and even (sometimes) come up with coherent replies. Reading Joss's comics feels a bit like that. He's operating on a higher plane than the rest of us, and storylines and plot developments that probably seem perfectly clear and straightforward to him are baffling to us ordinary mortals.
In other words, what he needs is a beta reader. :-)