Saturday, February 24, 2007
Comic Art
Some villains are so lame they must be shared across multiple heroes because if they fought only one hero all the time, the hero would die from the actual lameness. Such is the case with this week's hero - Stiltman!Refugee from a broken down eastern European circus, Stiltman took to a life of crime in a clown suit....OK, not really, but somehow I think it would have been better than what he really was, another guy in another mechanical suit, this one with hydraulic legs.
Stiltman has been surprizingly popular despite being surprisingly lame. His popularity I think supports my theory that art makes comics, not story. He does make for some incredible visuals all up in the air like that.
And yet, he reamins so essentially lame. It is kind of hard to poke fun at him, as it appears to be great sport accross the comic internet. Consider for example here: dumb ways a dumb criminal has been defeated. These were not made up, they were actually written and published. Here is somebody illustrating lame villain comic writing at its very finest.
You may have noticed at this point a lot more material on Stiltman as a DD villain, than Spidey. That's where he started, and that is where he has appeared the most, but as the top cover illustrates, he has battled Spidey, qualifying for this series. Besdies, he is so essentially lame, that we had to work him in somehow.And now, a sad confession - I have this comic you see here in my collection - the Spidey one above too. Having the Spidey one is not too bad, it is from my days of very active collecting and I bought and held everything. But that original DD survuived the great high school purge, meaning I thought it would be really valuable someday. Guess what, I can't retire on it, but it's worthy. Proof I guess that lameness sells.
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