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So like that Grant Morrison CGI Mahabharata thingy is back...
...only now, the title has been changed to "18 Days." (Warning: trailer autoplays!) Frankly I think that the new name is a huge improvement over "MBX."
Oh hey look it's a shiny new website! By which I actually mean "shiny new URL" instead of "shiny new website," since this is the exact same website, no change whatsoever, that Virgin Comics used to host. Although the trailer is new-ish... Well, there's a little bit of new footage, and a lot of new narration, but it's still basically the same trailer that we saw a year ago, waaaaay back in August 2008. Man, has it really been that long?
Whether this is going to rock or suck, I will say that the 90's comic book version of Karna still looks freakin' awesome.
Of course, my usual reservations about Grant Morrison writing anything other than Batman or Superman applies here, especially in light of his recent epic Japanese!culture!FAIL. But we'll see. The "Notes from Grant" section has some lulzy passages, but nothing that's actually pinging my fail-dar yet. Then again it's the exact same "Notes from Grant" that I read in August last year, so I dunno. I think maybe I'm willing to forgive a lot of simplification, dumbing-down, and overselling (a "psychedelic Lord of the Rings" ORLY GRANT?!) considering that the three-headed Morrison/Perspective/Liquid Comics monster is trying to sell this story to an audience of (presumed white) comic book fanboys, who are extremely unlikely to be at all familiar with the source material or original culture. But then again I'm a white girl, so none of these sins are mine to forgive in the first place.
If I could give one piece of armchair-quarterback advice to the three-headed monster, however, I would say this: Stop assuming that your only target audience for this project is white and/or male.
Putting shirtless dudes in your trailer was a good start.
(It's nice to know that the whole KMHK "I'm sure that this tiny strap of leather across my shoulder will protect my entire chest from this incoming rain of deadly arrows!" school of warrior fashion is still alive and well.)
Oh hey look it's a shiny new website! By which I actually mean "shiny new URL" instead of "shiny new website," since this is the exact same website, no change whatsoever, that Virgin Comics used to host. Although the trailer is new-ish... Well, there's a little bit of new footage, and a lot of new narration, but it's still basically the same trailer that we saw a year ago, waaaaay back in August 2008. Man, has it really been that long?
Whether this is going to rock or suck, I will say that the 90's comic book version of Karna still looks freakin' awesome.
Of course, my usual reservations about Grant Morrison writing anything other than Batman or Superman applies here, especially in light of his recent epic Japanese!culture!FAIL. But we'll see. The "Notes from Grant" section has some lulzy passages, but nothing that's actually pinging my fail-dar yet. Then again it's the exact same "Notes from Grant" that I read in August last year, so I dunno. I think maybe I'm willing to forgive a lot of simplification, dumbing-down, and overselling (a "psychedelic Lord of the Rings" ORLY GRANT?!) considering that the three-headed Morrison/Perspective/Liquid Comics monster is trying to sell this story to an audience of (presumed white) comic book fanboys, who are extremely unlikely to be at all familiar with the source material or original culture. But then again I'm a white girl, so none of these sins are mine to forgive in the first place.
If I could give one piece of armchair-quarterback advice to the three-headed monster, however, I would say this: Stop assuming that your only target audience for this project is white and/or male.
Putting shirtless dudes in your trailer was a good start.
(It's nice to know that the whole KMHK "I'm sure that this tiny strap of leather across my shoulder will protect my entire chest from this incoming rain of deadly arrows!" school of warrior fashion is still alive and well.)
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SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET
I've been going through some serious Virgin Comics withdrawal (especially about the India Authentic series... I loved that).
And yeah, the KHMK school of warrior fashion is definitely alive and well. Just look at the new Sword of Truth series. The protagonist is shirtless most of the time, and he's only been injured once.
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Considering your treatment of the Mahabharata so far, I'd say you definitely have a right to blame/forgive them.
As an Indian girl and a practising Hindu, I am in two minds - I'm extremely worried about this, but also very excited. :DDD
Thank you for the link!
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All right, India Authentic was good, Ramayana was not so bad as I was afraid of. So I might give this a chance.
BTW, that Karna comic looks nice. Where do I get it?
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And on Pangaea, no less!
And apparently the war was *so badass* that it's actually responsible for splitting the continents apart.
Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if eventually "18 Days" included a scene with Krishna hooking up velociraptors to Arjuna's chariot. I mean, if they're going to go for historical inaccuracy, they might as well go whole hog.
Edited to add: Oh whoops, I forgot to answer your question.
BTW, that Karna comic looks nice. Where do I get it?
Ack, sorry for the poor wording choice in my post! That's actually just a concept sketch of Karna from the 18 Days/MBX project. I called it "90's comic book Karna" because he looks like he stepped right out of a 1990's era comic book by Rob Liefeld.