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Broco







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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:22 am Post subject: Luigi's melancholy



I originally found this at



I never thought you could make such a bittersweet piece out of the genre of Mario reinterpretations. Bravo, unknown artist.















A comic that's been going around the web that I had to share.I originally found this at http://www.pressthebuttons.com/2010/09/life-after-the-mushroom-kingdom.html , but its original writer is unclear -- the guy on the facepunch.com forum said a friend sent it to him. I don't know what its real title is either.I never thought you could make such a bittersweet piece out of the genre of Mario reinterpretations. Bravo, unknown artist.

Mr. Apol







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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:53 am

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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:38 am I want more.

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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:08 am Blood potion ++

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Dracko







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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:52 am

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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:33 pm vision wrote: Where did the trend of character-extraction fan fiction�a cousin/antipode of self-insertion fiction; (artfully sequencing) the exposure of fictional characters to (the harsh reality of) reality, its rules, norms and resulting existential dread�start? and when will it end



Kafka�s Poseidon? Cervante�s Don Quixote?

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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:34 pm

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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:12 pm

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Haha, yeah. It's a clever hack, that one._________________

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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:49 am

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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:57 pm vision wrote: Where did the trend of character-extraction fan fiction�a cousin/antipode of self-insertion fiction; (artfully sequencing) the exposure of fictional characters to (the harsh reality of) reality, its rules, norms and resulting existential dread�start? and when will it end



Alan Moore's work kind of foreshadows this in comics - characters like Adam Strange regarded as lunatics for their claims of being spacemen in Swamp Thing, Watchmen representing old comic characters sucked into a realistic context.



It's the sort of thing Mark Millar has been hacking out artlessly ever since.



Grant Morrison's Animal Man is interesting, since there are layers of comic book reality placed on some sort of plane where completely abstract tex avery cartoons lie at one end and our world at the other. So when Whiley E Coyote gets sucked into the proto-Vertigo universe it foreshadows Animal Man getting sucked into "ours". The concept was used a bit more successfully at the end of Doom Patrol.



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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:03 pm Sonic Adventure 2? All of a sudden everyone's got a family of dead AIDS cousins and there are guns and people actually get executed by the military

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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:35 am

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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:53 pm JamesE wrote: vision wrote: Where did the trend of character-extraction fan fiction�a cousin/antipode of self-insertion fiction; (artfully sequencing) the exposure of fictional characters to (the harsh reality of) reality, its rules, norms and resulting existential dread�start? and when will it end



Alan Moore's work kind of foreshadows this in comics - characters like Adam Strange regarded as lunatics for their claims of being spacemen in Swamp Thing, Watchmen representing old comic characters sucked into a realistic context.



It's the sort of thing Mark Millar has been hacking out artlessly ever since.



Grant Morrison's Animal Man is interesting, since there are layers of comic book reality placed on some sort of plane where completely abstract tex avery cartoons lie at one end and our world at the other. So when Whiley E Coyote gets sucked into the proto-Vertigo universe it foreshadows Animal Man getting sucked into "ours". The concept was used a bit more successfully at the end of Doom Patrol.



(John Constantine made the switch seemingly without anyone realising)



The Sandman series is basically all about this, but with more of a post-modern interest in cultural relativism than any particular desire for "gritty" "realism". It's all a mash of (mostly failed) comic book characters, literary heroes, and old gods living beside and in our world. An extended metaphor for how powerful myths and stories become when we give them our credence, but how fragile and ephemeral such power really is.



I love Sandman.

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The Sandman series is basically all about this, but with more of a post-modern interest in cultural relativism than any particular desire for "gritty" "realism". It's all a mash of (mostly failed) comic book characters, literary heroes, and old gods living beside and in our world. An extended metaphor for how powerful myths and stories become when we give them our credence, but how fragile and ephemeral such power really is.I love Sandman._________________

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