我先问一个最简单的问题好了.......
回文中有几个人真的读过编剧Nick Spencer的作品?
(甚至自己拿这一回的Cap出来翻过?
先讲讲几个事情好了:
1.用看起来颠覆角色性质的方式做开场,最后其实什么都没发生的做法,很少见吗?
答案是一点都不。而且这招非常惯用了,还是用各种不同的方式做过,无论是诈欺式封面
、诈欺式剧情还是诈欺式宣传都有。
封面式诈欺最好(而且比较早的)例子,先举World Finest。很多人大概知道World Finest
是收录蝙蝠侠跟超人一同合作作品的漫画。但其实最早的World Finest,头前50回之中的
封面每一回虽然都是超人跟蝙蝠侠和Robin快乐玩耍的样子,“但漫画里头完全没有这两
人一起合作的故事,一个都没有!”。里头反倒是收录了Zatarra、Green Arrow以及
Batman、Superman的漫画集锦,故事之间完全没有交集。等到World Finest真的开始连载
Batman跟Superman梦幻共演的剧情,好多年已经过去了。
情节诈欺?80年末的Superman v2时期的时候就曾经有过一个故事是仿佛让Lois Lane变成
魔化女巨人还跟超人打了一架,无论封面还是情节都在误导读者仿佛超人真的在
跟Lois Lane打架。最后结果当然是Lois Lane毫法无伤地走出来说那个不是她。
喔对,Scott Snyder也玩过这招。Batman猫法事件刚开场时,Batman是跟小丑站起一起对
抗阿卡汉诸神经病的。结果没隔几页,就揭晓那个人其实是Dick Grayson装成小丑样跟
Batman一起进行计画。
2.Nick Spencer是谁?他写过Marvel什么东西?
Nick Spencer上一个负责的Cap连载叫做CAPTAIN AMERICA: SAM WILSON。内容是讲猎鹰作
为队长代班老化的Cap Steve的故事。或许评价不到顶级神作,但各大欧美漫画评论老站
资料诸君可以自己参阅,是个风评相当好的连载。而Nick Spencer本身在Marvel已经写过
非常多的作品,无论是Secret Avengers (2013)、The Superior Foes of Spider-Man还
是他在IMAGE公司的异色作品Morning Glories都相当受到评论和读者欢迎。
3.所以访谈有人完整看过了没?原来的英文访谈在这:http://goo.gl/t1jLUF
我节录几段话好了:
"
SPENCER: Captain America is not just one of the most recognizable faces in
the Marvel Universe. He’s an inspiring figure, somebody who brings people
together. Everybody here obviously gets that. What you hope is that this
story, in its own very different way, highlights those things and only
continues to elevate the character in importance, and only serves to
illustrate how powerful that symbol is."
SPENCER: It’s a big part of our story, what Steve’s beliefs are about what
Hydra should be, where it should go, what it should focus on. To me, I always
get really fascinated by this kind of thing. Any World War II history buff
can talk your ear off about the internal power struggles of the Nazi Party.
There were some fun parallels to play with here. There’s also a little bit
of The Man in the High Castle here. It’s a difficult challenge to get people
invested in Hydra characters because their ideology is so repugnant, but what
The Man in the High Castle did so well was get you to pull for the lesser of
the evils. You might be seeing some similar things here.
(如果你不知道The Man in the high Castle是什么,那是Philip K Dick写过的一个
关于二战空想历史的传奇科幻作品)
至于有人说过Spencer讲过最争议的一段话:
SPENCER: Issue 2 will lay a lot of our cards on the table in terms of what
the new status quo is, but the one thing we can say unequivocally is: This is
not a clone, not an imposter, not mind control, not someone else acting
through Steve. This really is Steve Rogers, Captain America himself.
我实在不知道为什么这段话对那么多人来说有那么肯定"没有别的隐情"。这明明留下了
一堆没有解释的事情。像是Steve的童年跟现在的事件到底有什么明确关联?Hydra在这些
年Steve发生了什么事情?“这只是漫画的第一回”,他们什么都还没说。除非你默认了
作家真的只能想得到“洗脑、复制人、假货”这些方式来帮Cap是Hydra伏兵这件事解套。