Comments on: Mummification https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification Lollards in the high church of low culture Sat, 05 Apr 2014 11:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification/comment-page-1#comment-1154585 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:51:42 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=24360#comment-1154585 I’m still not clear on the subtleties, it turns out – do you reckon that he means that there’s more than is explained on page 15? Because I’m not sure of the connection between Mother knowing as soon as Loki turns up in New York and the spell as explained.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification/comment-page-1#comment-1147083 Tue, 28 May 2013 12:49:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=24360#comment-1147083 The actual plot w.r.t “Mother” turned out to be rather more subtle than my reading of it (and most others) detected: http://kierongillen.tumblr.com/post/51404901044/writer-notes-on-young-avengers-5

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification/comment-page-1#comment-1123715 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:25:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=24360#comment-1123715 I haven’t actually read any Miles Morales issues – everyone has raved about it so I decided I should, then in typically me fashion I decided I should re-read the Peter Parker USMs first, which is, er, 160+ of them. Lucky I have some longhaul flights this month.

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By: Hazel https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification/comment-page-1#comment-1123696 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:37:37 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=24360#comment-1123696 Faiza Hussain’s parents are given relatively substantial screen time in MI:13. Although it is basically to tell her off for super-hero’ing around with Dane, which is fair enough, really. They do later get plot-jacked for angst purposes but they originally appear as just her mum & dad. I am looking forward to baby Cage-Jones’ plots.

Back on topic tho; I very much like the ‘everyone’s parents have lost it and the one person (indeed, parent*) who could’ve helped them has just had his massive weakness (parent) reappear’ premise. It’s a great way of knocking the Hip Replacement Beamslinger into a teenage format, since ever since Kieron and Jamie were messing with him in Siege it’s been obvious that Loki’s Laufey issues are possibly the only things more extreme than his Odin Issues. I am looking forward to more.

(my piece on #2 is so extraordinarily trollish I am actually not sure I can allow myself to do it yet)

(Also another vote for Miles Morales’ family relationship- I love Ultimate Spider Man, although it has sadly led to me reading THE ENTIRE OF SPIDER MAN and thus having to give up normal social activities, working and sleeping)

*Canonically, Loki turns up in Spider Man to rescue a mortal daughter of his. The MCU fandom don’t know this yet for some reason, SHHHHHH.

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By: Alex S https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification/comment-page-1#comment-1123055 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:18:20 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=24360#comment-1123055 Surely the first few years of the fifties have another, arguably more significant teen superhero presence in Captain Marvel Jr – who ties in to the birth of pop by directly inspiring Elvis’ look? Also, as I understand it, more dark and rock’n’roll in general, fighting grittier threats than his patron.
(And the only superhero who can’t say his own name without powering down, but that’s another issue)

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification/comment-page-1#comment-1123006 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:02:32 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=24360#comment-1123006 There’s a modern superhero comic which does it well too in places – Ultimate Spider-Man (for the uninitiated, this is a different version of Spider-Man than the normal Spider-Man) – but I’ll talk about that in another post at some point.

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By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification/comment-page-1#comment-1122990 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:57:16 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=24360#comment-1122990 My impulse is to argue that Modern Parents or Ab Fab actually continue to pay homage to the unevolved vew, precisely by setting up “60s parents” as monsters (albeit loveable comedy monsters).

Actually one comic that very much DOES tackle the modern family romance is Love and Rockets. But of course its setting is not really white suburbia. And it is backweighted against the present as a moment released from the continued effects of the past

In fact, this is its topic I guess: the roots of punk rock rebellion in small-town rural mexico in the 20s :)

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By: tm https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification/comment-page-1#comment-1122989 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:46:37 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=24360#comment-1122989 Viz has Modern Parents (pretty rub one joke strip, not one of their best)

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By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/03/mummification/comment-page-1#comment-1122970 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:36:37 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=24360#comment-1122970 To run with one (somewhat non-comics-related) ball, where in pop culture IS the (post-60s) parents stuff dealt with well?

Sit-coms? No, on the whole it restates what you’re saying I think — that the hand-me-down generational layers as imagined in the 50s are treated as archetypes (my parents were war-babies but some readers had parents who got their kit off in hyde park and released butterflies: this is a fact and a thing, and yet while a handful of sit-coms have tackled it, it has not become its own archetype)

Adverts? Yes. Here I think it has become a running joke, occasionally well handled.

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