Interview With Perry Moore
Newsarama has the first part of an interview with Perry Moore up today. Moore, author of the young adult novel Hero, announced at the San Diego ComiCon International that he and Stan Lee will be adapting the novel to a new medium.
What is the medium? We don't know.
Who is writing it? We don't know.
What's a vague time table? We don't know.
Essentially, the interview leaves us almost exactly where we were before. Here's hoping the second part is more in-depth and produces some information.
Goblin
Posted to Other on 18 August 2008
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If you don't have anything nice to say (in regards to this specific book), don't say anything at all.
And so ...
I wasn't putting the book down. Everything I said was in reference to the interview. While I stand by my statements about said interview I posted about it here because Moore is a big name in the genre at the moment.
Regardless of that, reviews of a work of fiction do not have to e positive. If I were to feel that the book was substandard, the review stating that would be just as valid as a positive one.
Oh, I wasn't saying you were putting the book down.
I actually meant I didn't like the book. Hence the ...
I actually pretty much despised the whole book. Which I don't think I've been shy of mentioning on here in previous related topics.
I just still can't believe people actually liked it enough to do something with it. It was unoriginal (save I guess that the main character is gay), ilogical and read like one of those bad fanfictions. The sort where the author gives their main character a laundry list of seemingly unrelated powers so that they're basically omnipotent. Which SPOILER is pretty much what Moore did by the end of the book.
Yeah, Perry Moore sucks. He put out this list a while back about how gays were treated in the comics, and, like, half of it was inaccurate. I emailed him and called him on it, and he didn't even care that he got his facts wrong. He is vapid and untalented and I don't understand how he could be popular.
I might lose my comic book cred but I thought it charming. Yes, it was a rip off of every comic superhero tale ever told but that seemed kind of the point. Remembering the days when you felt lonely as a teen because of who you were inside and what others might think about it.
Sitting through an episode of Heroes can feel just as ripped off or unoriginal - who can't list the characters on that show, or plot twists and consider them a hybrid of two known superhero comic heroes or Arcs? And I accept it for what it is and sit back to enjoy too.
It wasn't Watchmen in it's depth but as someone who knows LGBT youth I thought it was a wonderful way to offer them an inroad into superheroes, self esteem, and feeling special.
For all the disappointment with the lack of LGBT representation that we feel as a comic community I typically find myself confused by the negative feedback when there is some.
I do find the timeline vague and hope it's not just some stunt to say - comic industry is LGBT friendly and then no follow through but i guess we will see.
@ Nexus:
Sorry for the misunderstanding, my apologies.
I actually wasn't as big a fan of the book as most seemed to be either and I'm in the midst of writing a review of the book as a whole. I don't think I hated it as much as you did, but I'm not its biggest fan either.
@ Oraclechele
We shouldn't have to settle for just any LGBT representation. There should still be quality.
And you talk about characters on Heroes being recognisable, but they don't almost literally copy existing heroes, do they? Warrior woman or something? Dark Hero? The three diferent Superman clones?
And it shouldn't be Watchmen like in depth, but some depth would be appreciated. The main villain didn't even have a proper motive for doing what he did.