Comments on: Comics in Context #37: High Noon for Mutants http://asitecalledfred.com/2004/05/07/comics-in-context-37-high-noon-for-mutants/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:02:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rick B. http://asitecalledfred.com/2004/05/07/comics-in-context-37-high-noon-for-mutants/comment-page-1/#comment-7566 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:02:24 +0000 http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2004/05/07/comics-in-context-37-high-noon-for-mutants/#comment-7566 You mention Nevin’s contention that Haggard is the father of the Lost World school of fantastic fiction, but I wonder if there is not an earlier and more obvious candidate, and that is Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Lost World’ novel, the influences of which are still very much with us.

I once read an interview with Moore in which he explained his idea that magic exists, and that literally it is language. I’m sure I won’t do this justice, but the point was that if magic is a kind of transmutation (lead
into gold), then that is what happens with the creation of fiction, and the characters of the alphabet are the tools of magic. Reading that interview was a jaw-dropping moment for me, a rare experience where I was suddenly given the insight for seeing something near and dear to me for almost my whole life, fiction, in a totally new way.

As always, thanks for a stimulating column.

Rick B.

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