PRIVATE. CONFIDENTIAL. STATE. SECRET.
PRIVATE. CONFIDENTIAL. STATE. SECRET.
Well, it’s been a while. Why no new comic reviews? Because I promised you a review of a bad comic and when the time came I couldn’t be arsed to willingly read a bad comic to review? Ha ha ha ha ha you blind fool.
I missed a week of my life because I read the final issue of THE FILTH. The final issue of THE FILTH is a lot like the final episode of THE PRISONER, in that I followed the damn thing up until then and understood every single word and scene, god dammit, but this one finally defeated me and I don’t know what it’s about yet. Note the word ‘yet’. Vic Fluro – F-l-u-r-o Mister Guardian Man - is not some goddamn pussy who flinches and claims ignorance just because Batman’s soul has been sucked into a bottle by the Batman of a million months into the future and then fired into a clone body on Pluto. I don’t take that as an excuse to moan and bitch on some crappy newsgroup - “I’m not STUPID or anything, but this is FAR TOO DIFFICULT for me and so there is some inherent problem with the WORK and not with MY SLOW SLOW MIND THAT DOZ NOT FUNNCTION LIKE NORMAL BRANE DO UH MY HED HURTS.” YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, Elaine.
No, I will understand THE FILTH the same way I understood the Prisoner. I finally understood The Prisoner by watching it more than once and then coming up with my own ideas about what it means and not being particularly surprised when these views disagree with those of the mad mad Patrick MacGoohan aka Doctor Lu-Ney. Similarly, I will return to THE FILTH and understand that. I WILL. And when I read some interview with The Hyper Grant or whatever mind creature he’s mutated into I will not be knocked back into a stupor when he reveals that it means something utterly different and mad. I SHALL NOT. I will take it in stride, for at the end of the day THE FILTH or any other comic is what I DESIRE IT TO BE! Hopefully that relates to what the artist (by which I mean writers too) wants it to be, but diversity of opinion is no bad thing.
(Dear God! Did I write that? Diversity of opinion, dear reader, is only good WHEN YOU AGREE WITH MYSELF and diversify from the opinion OF A FOOL.)
But I’m getting ahead of myself. That was last week. This week we have BATMAN/WILDCAT - that bad comic I promised – and BORN. To be continued.
Vic Fluro in The Brown Wedge • 356 views