Readers, I come here today with a question I have in light
of reading Fantomas (still working on it), and rereading Century.
Is modern fiction better than old fiction? Was Alan Moore
right?
Well in my opinion...their more like equals actually.
Well in my opinion...their more like equals actually.
True, pop culture has gotten a bit sterile in some areas
(look at Twilight for example) but in others it’s really quite an advancement
over it’s predecessors.
Take a look at comic books and science fiction for starters,
during the early days of their existence our limited knowledge (while works
could be more flexible) kept us unable to devise more advanced scientific
concepts like the Multiverse and Quantum physics. Plus, the comic book stories
(while a tad too dark at times) can develop characters much better after their
years of development as a media form.
And then there’s anime, that stuff is fantastic, it never
caught on until the recent couple of decades but that’s kind of the point of
its introduction. Anime was largely unknown for many years, but when the late eighties
hit, we began to find a whole new set of wild and fascinating stories that only
the wildly imaginative Japanese writers could have created.
In fact, if my impression is right, the modern anime series
are even better than the older series. Quite the reversal of Moore’s
complaints.
Now then, webcomics are an area that’s extremely grey. Since
newspaper comics have peaked and aren’t even half as common as they were back
in the forties, when they were as plentiful as raindrops and sand, and as
diversified as a 32 color rainbow. Webcomics have became quite plentiful and
there are literally thousands of them.
But there’s a problem with that, because webcomics are so
easy to make, while all talented writers have a chance to show their talents by
creating great stories, any asshole who thinks they can draw also thinks their
the hottest thing since Jack Kirby, especially where Sonichu is concerned…so
while we have a lot of great comics, there’s a lot of horrible and shitty ones
too. It’s not a perfect system.
And then there’s video games, sure plenty of them have no
plots or stories at all, but there are a lot of them that not only have good
ones, but have some of the most epic plots of all, the master storytelling of
the Bioshock and the Grand Theft Auto series gives us some very important
examples. Not to mention Mass Effect, which NBC News referred to as one of the
best sci-fi series of all time. In fact, they might be one of the best kinds of
media forms in existence since the whole concept is that they’re stories you
can interact with in a way only very few other kinds of stories can offer.
So anyways, is new fiction better than old fiction? Well, in
my opinion, it really just depends on taste, personally I think that stories
from all periods of time are really just as good or bad as any look of fiction
can be. All that really depends is who makes it. There’s really no shortage of
ideas, so maybe there are some declines in pop culture but there are ways to
bring its quality back up too, we just need the right writer…
Anyways, that’s my thoughts on modern fiction vs. old timey
fiction.
I’d like to add to this that there’s going to be a change in
my updating schedule, to avoid rushed posts and deadlines, I’m just going to
post posts whenever I actually have one to post. Rest assured I plan to still
post them often, but this should help make sure I don’t end up sacrificing
quality.
Peace dudes, it’s a brave new world…and I hope to have
something really cool for my next post.
