Representing calamity
Mar. 8th, 2002 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI got a comics order in this morning. Just the usual montly selection, full of fun, frolics and the usual obscenities.
Oh, and the two 9-11 volumes.
I dithered over buying them, not sure what anthologies of other people's feelings would add to my own. Eventually the list of authors carried me over the brink and I added them to my order.
And they're pretty much what I expected - a mixture of the unquestioningly patriotic and the thought provoking, single page images and winding stories, big picture observations and personal moments.
Generally it's the personal reminisces that get to me, the intimate moments that made me empathise with somebody, bring some emotions to the fore.
Which isn't to say that Neil Gaiman's thoughts on meaning and answers aren't good, or that Alan Moore doesn't bring his usual intelligence to bear on the trouble of telling one pile of rubble from another.
But it's definitely the small moments of terror, relief, pain and joy that bring out my emotional side.
Oh, and the two 9-11 volumes.
I dithered over buying them, not sure what anthologies of other people's feelings would add to my own. Eventually the list of authors carried me over the brink and I added them to my order.
And they're pretty much what I expected - a mixture of the unquestioningly patriotic and the thought provoking, single page images and winding stories, big picture observations and personal moments.
Generally it's the personal reminisces that get to me, the intimate moments that made me empathise with somebody, bring some emotions to the fore.
Which isn't to say that Neil Gaiman's thoughts on meaning and answers aren't good, or that Alan Moore doesn't bring his usual intelligence to bear on the trouble of telling one pile of rubble from another.
But it's definitely the small moments of terror, relief, pain and joy that bring out my emotional side.
