Posted by phone monkey at 1cust118.tnt1.minneapolis3.mn.da.uu.net on March 10, 2002 at 09:11:18:
In Reply to: The 9/11 Marvel Comic posted by thedarkspoon on March 10, 2002 at 06:19:58:
out - 9/11 Artists Respond, and a DC version. Very intense, but very cool. I plan to share these with my daughter when she gets older.
Lots of different artists contributed to these, mostly comicbook artists, but also others like Neil Gaiman. I'm working my way through it slowly.
The many perspectives shared in the stories are what really makes it important. There's not just one reaction that people had or have. It's still very ongoing.
An odd coincidence with the bombing. There was a documentary film crew following one of the rookie firefighters. They are airing some of that tonight. From what I've heard, I know that a lot of the people featured in it died that day doing their job. I'm going to try to watch it.
: I'm from the United Kingdom and untill the 9/11 Marvel comic was released over here, I never really had any feelings on the whole incident. It was something that happened over "there" and there was nothing I could do about it.
I'm in the midwest, miles away. But somehow it reached all the way here.
And there.
I've got a classmate who had to leave school after this happened. She had to go to New York to pick up her son's young children. He worked in the World Trade Center.
From there, she had to bring them to England, where their mother was. She was there caring for a sick relative.
The family then went back to Nigeria, where she is from, and she had to break the news to her father that they never found his son.
: I've just got hold of a copy of the 9/11 comic with Kevin's bit in and I don't think I've ever felt so strongly about a comic. When I read it I could just feel this overwhelming sense of community existing even though all hope seems to have been lost. That's something you just don't get over here.
: Well done on a great story Kevin.
: Gavin Murphy
: "Real is a Motherfucker"
Comics are ... they are an amazing way to communicate. "Real" can blow away any form of imaginative horror. Showing more of the gore doesn't seem to help the healing. I didn't cry watching the event when it occurred. The things that have made me cry are Jimmy Kimmel talking about screwing around with his NY friends before football games, David Letterman, and these books.