I always loved that Harlan quote.
I did not recall that you were the person that wrote it!
Miki A
On Jan 18, 2021, at 1:00 PM, Tony Isabella <tonyisabella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Since Malcolm mentioned Geoff Johns, let me add this:
Without Geoff Johns, I would not have gotten a much improved (however
imperfect) agreement with DC Comics. You would not have seen BLACK LIGHTNING:
COLD DEAD HANDS, which is my best super-hero writing ever and which is so
vastly superior to the crap reboot of BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS that it makes
me weep. You would not have four seasons of a Black Lightning TV series, a
series that is unfortunately ending because some cast members wanted to move
on to other projects. I don't fault them. They're good people who I love and
not indentured servants.
Geoff Johns is a hero to me and my family. I'll weigh his character and
talent against those of a disgruntled actor upset because some of his scenes
were cut and against the Synder cultists who want that director's dark and
depressing take on super-heroes to become the standard for DC's movies.
Geoff's accomplishments speak for themselves. If you had told me I would
enjoy a new Batman/Joker story - THE THREE JOKERS - I would have considered
you quite mad.
Harlan Ellison loved and used what he considered one of the best lines I have
wrote: Hell hath no fury like that of the uninvolved. What we see too often
are fans who don't have skin in the game attacking those who do. We've seen
fans savaging Jerry Siegel's heirs because Rao forbid the creator of one of
the greatest characters of all time and his family receive a share of the
enormous profits DC Comics had made from Superman. Just one example.
I think too many fans have lost sight of the fact that the super-hero genre
is, at its core, optimistic and progressive.
And with that, I yield the soapbox to the rest of you.
Tony Isabella
