Swamp Thing index + the next obsessive project

[alibi_shop]

I've made a table of contents for all of those Swamp Thing blog entries on my website, here.

It turns out that I enjoy doing this kind of thing. So, as a follow-up—once I have time—I'll be rereading and writing about Grant Morrison's 1994-2000 SF/fantasy/action/philosophy comic The Invisibles, which was one of my favorite things in the whole world 20-26 years ago. I'm both looking forward to and slightly dreading this.

Comments

[psybelle]

I'm looking forward to this project - I reread The Invisibles starting back around November and finishing up in January or so (just because, at the time, it seemed like a reasonable thing to do.).. It will be interesting to see if your observations resonate with mine.

[alibi_shop]

Oh, cool. Well, I probably won't start for at least another week - I'm finishing up some other stuff and also I had a couple of related things I felt like checking out first: right now it's the early Morrison/Yeowell 2000AD series Zenith, which is a pretty quick read, and then I might take another look at some Michael Moorcock books to refresh my memory although I'm not sure I have the patience for that any more.

how many more split decimals?

[psybelle]

you keep teasing me....

(meanwhile, much sympathy on the question of patience for revisiting Moorcock - I had real trouble many months ago with finishing The Whispering Swarm - I knew better than to expect a "hero" but the intersections of the protagonist's flaws and issues having to do with a friend's divorce were just damn ugly...)

Re: how many more split decimals?

[alibi_shop]

I think part 0.9 will be however many Jerry Cornelius books I make it through (the first is a pretty fast read but I seem to remember they get tougher), and then I'll start on the main event.

I haven't read The Whispering Swarm or any of his other non-Elric and non-Cornelius stuff, so I don't really have any idea what Moorcock reads like when he's writing about non-superhuman people who ever do any regular things.

Re: how many more split decimals?

[psybelle]

*sigh* The lead character in Whispering Swarm (I hesitate to call him a protagonist) may or may not have ... "occult powers" ... but it's not like he uses his ability to cross into the past/a different timeline *for good*, this being Moorcock: wife in one timeline/dimension, mistress/girlfriend in another and he baldly states about the situation something like "My ego had never been in better shape."

*spits*