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NERRRRRRD! vol. 85
"In the end?
Nothing ends.
Nothing ever ends"
The pioneer of serious superheroes – who is retiring – has transformed the genre over 40 years of rebellious invention
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Negation Aspiration vol. 172
In this sense, Instagram’s handling of the Devins photos is exemplary of a wider problem, but Russett says this is a particularly egregious example considering the elements of the case: Devins was an active 4chan user and a so-called “egirl,” or an aspiring influencer who coopted aspects of gaming culture in her Instagram persona, which has prompted many 4chan trolls to viciously mock her and share memes about her death. “There’s so much more violence and abuse around gamer girls than others it seems,” she says. The fact that Instagram’s community guidelines specifically make room for violent content when it’s explicitly intended to “condemn, raise awareness or educate” others about violence has also seemingly created a loophole for trolls to share the images: many captions accompanying the posts make reference to wanting to raise awareness of Devins’ death, in the same breath as joking about it or requesting more followers.
Why Are
Gruesome
Photos of a
Murdered
17-Year-Old Girl
Still All Over
Instagram?
The platform’s handling
of the Bianca Devins case
is arguably reflective
of a wider problem
NERRRRRRRRRD! vol. 84
Moore reiterates a lesson he last pushed in Watchmen and Marvelman, that superheroes and fantastical people are a terrible idea. They just cause massive chaos and carnage on the world and the universe. The climaxes of those comics bore this out. LOEG: The Tempest reiterates this idea, but this time as farce and ridiculous comedy. The added nuance Moore adds here is that superheroes and fantastical people belong in stories, not as models for real life. They are unfiltered expressions of the subconscious and release valves for our culture’s craziest impulses, and should stay on the page where the chaos is controlled.
This comic isn’t just Moore and O’Neill’s last hurrah as comics creators, but a love letter and a lost hurrah for the lost, forgotten British comics of decades past. These are the weird, haphazardly created characters from the Fifties and Sixties that Moore and O’Neill read as children. They were silly, bizarre, creaky, even conceptually broken, but they were expressions of a wild, unfiltered creativity by their creators. Every issue begins with an introductory essay paying tribute to a late, lost British comic artist on the verge of becoming forgotten. Moore lauds their eccentric, individual style or consummate skills for their uniqueness unseen in this age of corporate ownership and increasing blandness.
“The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #6”: Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s Bittersweet Comics Swansong
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