Ron Marz does it again! And with only minor variations!
The man who brought us Women in Refrigerators is back and he's partying like it's 1993, shoving yet another woman into a major kitchen appliance in the pages of Green Lantern. Be sure to come back for the conclusion of this heart-rending trilogy in 2015, when Kyle Rayner finds his grandmother in the dishwasher.
Sadly, time has passed by the old warhorses like Ron Marz, who probably could have sold a lot more comics in this summer of Identity Crisis if he'd remembered to have Major Force rape Kyle's mother first. Once it was enough just to kill them, but you know what they say... it was the comics that got small.
For what it's worth, I suspect most of us who scoff at Marz's stunt are repulsed not because we care for Kyle's mother - that would presume that we'd read anything by Ron Marz - or because Identity Crisis has made us all hypersensitive, but because it's yet another example of a hack writer killing off a woman as a convenient means of adding tragedy to the hero's life. Compounded, in this case, by the transparent impoverishment of an author who's reduced to plagiarizing himself.
Goodbye, Ron. Don't let the oven door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Discussion questions:
1. Which is more the more serious artistic problem, endemic misogyny or mindless repetition?
2. At what point, if any, can we qualitatively distinguish between "hackwork" and just plain repugnant writing?
Posted by Marc at August 28, 2004 6:53 PM