Video: Those Sparkly Blood-Suckers Have An Ancestor In Professor Xavier
This weekend, with its major movie release that needn't go named, is going to place you on one side or another of the sparkly vampire schism. Whether you're on Team Jacob or Team Switzerland (I've been told this is the official terminology for the apathetic plurality), the media buzz for this mega-event is inescapable, and the comics industry is no exception.
As much crap as the series takes, it owes a large amount to the otherwise male-dominated field of comic books. Looking at these crossovers, it's evident that there's actually not such a huge difference between Stephanie Myer and our beloved sequential narrative. No really. Read on.
In case you've missed it. Marvel.com's "Superheroes: What the--?!" released "Twi Harder", starring Morbius as the questionable love interest to Kitty Pryde's naivety. Something tells me that New Moon certainly would put MODOK to sleep.
Next up is a dazzling little article that delves into Stephanie Meyer's declared X-Men inspiration for the novels. Though there's been god-on-mortal romance since Zeus seeded Europe in bull form, tying in teenage angst to these trysts was mastered by the X-Men. The Op/Ed piece continues on to say
...as any comic book fan will tell you, the mutants of the Marvel Universe tend to develop their powers at puberty. It's the classic tale of feeling ostracized at that age, as the mutants congregate into outsider groups of others like them.In the Twilight book series, there's a group of Native American characters (including the beefy Jacob played by Taylor Lautner) who develop the ability to shapeshift into wolf form. When does this ability hit them? Right around puberty. What do they do? Start hanging out together, and they're outsiders among other teens in their tribe.
So there's more of a connection than just the upcoming Twilight Graphic Novel adaptation. There's a whole shared mythos that introduces some preteens without any previous literary interest to some very comic-like concepts. Though it could make you twinge to see your weekly ink degraded to the level of a glorified soap-opera, the truth is that both the Twilight series and the biggest superhero narratives both bear a common string in the ways of compelling story-telling that engage the most fantastic reaches of the imagination. They both present an impossible world that the readership internally worships. I won't be telling them off any Twilight fans. I'm just on team Red Rain Batman.
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Posted to Videos on 20 November 2009
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I'm afraid that I have been quick to judge the Twi-hards (even as I drooled a little over Jacob in the movie trailer I saw). I hadn't thought about the archetypes shared between Twilight and comics and now I feel like I should reconsider my kneejerk agreement with Team Nuke Them From Orbit.
That said: hilarious video!
Wait, what? A serious that glorifies racism, domestic abuse and pedophilia written by a homophobic Moron = Xmen, a series that confronted inequality in all its ugliness. Uhmmm, no. Just no.
Nice post & nice blog. I love both.