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Post by gothos on Feb 7, 2015 14:34:59 GMT -5
Simple challenge:
For every bad superhero comic-book series-- or limited run of a creative team on a series-- can you match that to a really bad TV sitcom?
Example: Rob Liefield's CAPTAIN AMERICA matches up with HOMEBOYS FROM OUTER SPACE.
Granted, most TV sitcoms can't be found as easily as bad comics-- for the latter, there are comic-store bins, for the former, services like Youtube and Hulu-- but there are some sitcoms just as memorably bad as the worst comics, methinks.
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Post by gothos on Feb 12, 2015 16:52:37 GMT -5
Well, this idea went over like a plutonium balloon, so while waiting for it to sink to the bottom of the forum, I'll sum up the reason I thought of it:
I can't count the number of times I've seen critical essays talking about how bad superheroes are. But I got to thinking, even if that were the entire truth-- are they any worse than bad situation comedies?
The comic book industry, both in its newsstand and its DM manifestations, is a industry that depends on serial entertainment, just like television. And while comic books since the 1970s have been increasingly dependent on one genre, television's *defining* genre-- not the only popular genre, but the one the medium arguably does best-- is the sitcom.
I don't have anything against the demands of serial entertainment; it requires a special "make it up as you go along" genius that not everyone can do well. Since there's so much demand, mediocrity is always going to be rampant-- though as I said in the first post, television's failures are more frequently forgotten. In comics, even a bad idea that never gets published, like Kanigher's "Black Bomber," gets a "revival" of sorts when it appears as a joke in Dwayne McDuffie's JLA.
That's it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 12, 2015 23:34:26 GMT -5
I don't really watch much bad TV. I was trying to think of a really bad TV series to match up with "The Long Halloween," but I realized that if I saw a TV show that bad, I would stop watching it.
Oh, wait! I saw one episode of "Reba" and I couldn't believe how awful it was. So I'll match up "Reba" with "The Long Halloween."
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