The other Isabella quote he loved and used was:
Expediency is not heroism.
One of the last time I visited Ellison Wonderland, he had it on a plaque
on his office wall. I was speechless when I saw it.
Tony
On 1/18/2021 2:03 PM, Miki A wrote:
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
