[UA] Cannibal Avatar?

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Nick Wedig
> Sent: Monday, 4 June 2001 11:05 PM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA] Cannibal Avatar?
>
>
> >See, this is exactly my point.  I can buy mythical kingship in a
> ritualistic, anointed way (which is exactly why I don't think
> it's very UA-- it's tied into an increasingly passe worldview),
> but True Kings of Comic Book Artists, Meter Maids, et cetera
> strike me not as "irreverent" but "goofy".
>
> What I was trying to suggest is that people actually do treat
> Jack Kirby as if he were a king.

So, you are saying Peter Corless is trying for true king of roleplayers?
Scary... 8)

> His name is almost synonymous
> with super hero comics (just as the european kings were
> synonymous with their kingdoms) and he performed various kingly
> duties (guiding those lower, etc).

Much of this is due to Stan Lee continually anointing himself as first
acolyte of the great man, though, isn't it?

>  I truly doubt he was the
> greatest comic artist there was,

Eisner...actually, Perez, but only after he gets the electronic advantage.


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