tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post2077517718359649991..comments2024-03-28T13:39:03.094-07:00Comments on Edward Feser: Movies, comic books, and sequential artEdward Feserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13643921537838616224noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-24486045486583321552012-03-18T00:43:35.381-07:002012-03-18T00:43:35.381-07:00Hello Matthew, no, I haven't seen that, but I ...Hello Matthew, no, I haven't seen that, but I will have to look for it!Edward Feserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13643921537838616224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-77864555383982568252012-03-17T22:52:52.311-07:002012-03-17T22:52:52.311-07:00Hello, Dr Feser, I've been enjoying reading yo...Hello, Dr Feser, I've been enjoying reading your posts, but I haven't ever posted here because of embarrassment at the hobby-like nature of my philosophical understanding. Today, though, I was reading the 4th World Omnibus, and Mr Miracle no. 3 has a sequence on the second page that reminded me of the desire you expressed to see Act and Potency depicted in sequential form. Are you familiar with this issue? Since my knowledge of A-T scholarship is limited, there's a good probability that I am mistaken, but the "animates" in that issue seemed to illustrate that idea more or less. It seems to me it could at least be appropriated to that end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-76303879949636955992011-09-03T22:38:06.054-07:002011-09-03T22:38:06.054-07:00Don't know if you've seen it, but Chris Ma...Don't know if you've seen it, but Chris Marker's film LE JETEE is completely made up of still photographs. It's like a comic book, or photo album of sorts. It's post- apocalyptic science fiction as well. I'm wondering, where you think something like that fits in here?Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15776751666005563455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-25356848133420979262011-09-03T13:01:00.343-07:002011-09-03T13:01:00.343-07:00Gene Wolfe is a very good writer and a conservativ...<i>Gene Wolfe is a very good writer and a conservative Catholic, which I suppose will recommend him to many here. There's not much Catholic philosophy in his writing, though. If you want that sort of thing, you should stick to Chesterton. </i><br /><br />There's a lot of catholic philosophical material in his work. The entire <i>Solar Cycle</i> is full of it. But his interests lie a little broader than mere philosophy. <i>The Fifth Head of Cerberus</i>, for example, may be one of the greatest novels about colonialism ever written. By stripping colonialism from actual context (i.e. divorcing colonialism from real-world cases) he brilliantly illustrates the cultural impact of colonialism on both the subjects and rulers.<br /><br />I would say that Wolfe is a novelist fist, and a Catholic second. He also posits some rather interesting religious ideas (see <i>There are Doors</i> for a prime example of this). I'll also say that Wolfe and Peter Ackroyd are probably the two greatest post-modern novelists writing in English.E.H. Munrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09038816873823422488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-70331338224376132602011-09-02T17:58:34.528-07:002011-09-02T17:58:34.528-07:00Thank you for using our complete "Sound of Th...Thank you for using our complete "Sound of Thunder" scans as a reference. We hoped someone would make good use of them. It's one of our favorite stories!Mars Will Send No Morehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331176161987428508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-80384699089136494232011-09-02T11:03:08.680-07:002011-09-02T11:03:08.680-07:00BeingItself, you're just so cute. I wanna eat...BeingItself, you're just so cute. I wanna eat you up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-44081519137109847632011-09-02T08:14:26.758-07:002011-09-02T08:14:26.758-07:00Check out the graphic books Two Fisted Science and...Check out the graphic books Two Fisted Science and Suspended In Language by by Jim Ottaviani. Great stuff. Although I realize the science and critical thinking emphasized in these books may be uncongenial to the superstitious reader.BeingItselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13196126096999779200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-71189397090355804902011-09-01T20:03:10.968-07:002011-09-01T20:03:10.968-07:00I'd never heard of Rafferty. I'll have to...I'd never heard of Rafferty. I'll have to check him out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-79451482898423858252011-09-01T18:54:52.939-07:002011-09-01T18:54:52.939-07:00I just finished Wolfe's "The Fifth Head o...I just finished Wolfe's "The Fifth Head of Cerberus". He quotes Chesterton almost verbatim in that book. I know he wrote that Chesterton is one of his favorite authors in "The Castle of the Otter".<br /><br />There's a great deal of metaphysical musing in the Book of the New Sun series. Most of the names for God are also metaphysically descriptive (Increate, Pancreator, Panjudicator). <br /><br />Characters present some form of the cosmological argument in Book of the New Sun as well as Wolfe's Soldier series. I'll try to find the quote, but at one point Severian even asserts that atheism is irrational.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-82832392931296342562011-09-01T18:21:19.499-07:002011-09-01T18:21:19.499-07:00Gene Wolfe is a very good writer and a conservativ...Gene Wolfe is a very good writer and a conservative Catholic, which I suppose will recommend him to many here. There's not much Catholic philosophy in his writing, though. If you want that sort of thing, you should stick to Chesterton. If you'd like a sample of his writing, this very short story, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=bOfTt6U2-pkC&pg=PA374#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">My Book</a> should do.<br /><br />R.A. Lafferty is another conservative Catholic fantasy writer. His style is considerably wilder. A personal favorite of mine is <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Y_FoU_KMOmkC&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">Nine Hundred Grandmothers</a>, also quite short.<br /><br />Of course, there are many conservative fantasy writers, seeing that fantasy was a romantic reaction to the enlightenment.Jinzanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04155467948613318531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-25329606422106327372011-09-01T14:55:50.548-07:002011-09-01T14:55:50.548-07:00Dr. Feser, I've been wanting to ask you this f...Dr. Feser, I've been wanting to ask you this for a long time, but have you ever read any Gene Wolfe? <br /><br />He seems to write his sci-fi/fantasy from an A-T perspective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-88203113329268486962011-09-01T11:38:45.121-07:002011-09-01T11:38:45.121-07:00I was a big comic book fan in college, 20+ years a...I was a big comic book fan in college, 20+ years ago, but I got sick of the characters' CONSTANT angst and the immorality of their actions. Yeah, they were sort of about morality... but I remember giving up about the time that Starfire from The New Teen Titans (they were big at the time, so sue me!) had to go back to her planet to get married. Both of them were in love with other people they were sleeping with, but they got married because she was supposed to be queen or something. Her husband was immediately almost killed and she realized that she DID care about him -- that marriage really meant something -- and saved his life. And then went back to Earth to shack up with Robin. I was in college, for goodness' sake, and not particularly averse to people shacking up. But she was married. It really bugged me. After that I started noticing more and more similar things and got sick of them.<br /><br />But I really loved the way comics combined story and visuals. Every once and a while I would go back and pick up a couple, but they're still the same or worse. I used to love Alan Moore (Swamp Thing!!!!!!) -- now he's a pornographer AND an anarchist. It doesn't seem to be an industry that is particularly good for the soul.Gail Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11740482509910163332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-48987869272156788482011-09-01T11:13:34.517-07:002011-09-01T11:13:34.517-07:00I think an A-T comic book or cartoon would be a ve...I think an A-T comic book or cartoon would be a very handy teaching tool. Aristotle: A Graphic Guide was a big disappointment. The authors misread Aristotle and the illustrations do nothing to illustrate the concepts discussed. It's just a bunch of figures drawn under word bubbles filled with elementary metaphysics (and, as I mentioned, some of that metaphysics is incorrectly stated). <br /><br />Dr. Feser, you should hook up with a good artist and write your first philosophical comic book. That's assuming you one day have the time.Roy IVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15463605944132111455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-65171033885665089542011-09-01T09:52:07.611-07:002011-09-01T09:52:07.611-07:00Captain North America
What is this North America ...<i>Captain North America</i><br /><br />What is this North America you speak of as if there was more than one America? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-86646303261358268832011-09-01T03:12:59.156-07:002011-09-01T03:12:59.156-07:00Captain North AmericaCaptain North AmericaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-57196376794584118212011-09-01T01:05:38.636-07:002011-09-01T01:05:38.636-07:00When I was a kid I especially liked The Fantastic ...When I was a kid I especially liked The Fantastic Four, Thor, Captain America, and Spiderman, so it's been fun to see them as movies. In college I switched to Conan comics - Barry Windsor-Smith was a pretty good artist. The Conan movies of the 80s were kind of disappointing, though.crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-67214612456028746552011-08-31T22:33:07.022-07:002011-08-31T22:33:07.022-07:00Actually, one general shining spot with Marvel ten...Actually, one general shining spot with Marvel tended to be Daredevil. In fact, there was a fairly recent line I remember, after Daredevil (due to a series of calamities, which is pretty much what DD is all about) has an affair in a moment of weakness, and is remorseful about it later. I love the exchange after the fact.<br /><br />"Matt, stop beating yourself up. It's not like you committed a sin or anything!"<br />'Yeah, I think you may be wrong about that...'Crudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04178390947423928444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-76639248901797813202011-08-31T22:26:34.284-07:002011-08-31T22:26:34.284-07:00Josh,
You never know. I'm currently working o...Josh,<br /><br />You never know. I'm currently working on programming and game development as an amateur. I've thought about making a game world with an A-T backdrop - something like an Ultima series (prior to 8 before the whole series went to hell.) Dreams of an amateur for now, but who knows.<br /><br />I agree about the directly insulting trend Mercury notices. Though I did like the general Catholic / religion portrayal in Hellboy of all places.Crudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04178390947423928444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-50958430566768441502011-08-31T21:30:18.890-07:002011-08-31T21:30:18.890-07:00Crude,
I think the closest we'll get is Assas...Crude,<br /><br />I think the closest we'll get is Assassin's Creed where you can murder the Borgia pope in the Sistine Chapel.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03854212736162113327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-7563645304866371522011-08-31T21:26:51.261-07:002011-08-31T21:26:51.261-07:00This is "Ford/Kelly" friend, but the way...This is "Ford/Kelly" friend, but the way :)<br /><br />Anyway, I used to love comics a lot - still do. When I was in grad school I got hooked on them again.<br /><br />Lately though, I find that so many of the current stories and art, at least in Marvel's books are so in-your-face sexual and directly insulting to conservatives (not to mention religion) that it's no fun anymore.<br /><br />I still can't get over Cyclops shacking up with Emma Frost. Gimme a break. <br /><br />By the way, have you ever seen "Marvels", the miniseries by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross? It's a retelling of the Marvel Silver Age through the eyes of a "civilian", and the art is Alex Ross's almost photorealistic style. It's a great story - Busiek had to try to figure out all the events going on at the same time in those books in the 1960s. Pretty well done.Mercuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15864822194727243615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-24211759741559051812011-08-31T21:10:37.731-07:002011-08-31T21:10:37.731-07:00Comics are fun. Me, I'm wondering what it woul...Comics are fun. Me, I'm wondering what it would take to work A-T into a video game. I mean they made a video game out of objectivism with Bioshock. (Though I wonder what objectivists think of that.)Crudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04178390947423928444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-22285623856721829122011-08-31T20:17:07.837-07:002011-08-31T20:17:07.837-07:00Logicomix was really cool; I wish those guys would...Logicomix was really cool; I wish those guys would do more of those.<br /><br />Don't forget the film adaptation of <i>Dick Tracy</i>. That art direction was incredible.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03854212736162113327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-60730766530239791692011-08-31T19:32:59.493-07:002011-08-31T19:32:59.493-07:00Nerd!Nerd!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com