Galan007
|Quantum Observer|
Originally posted by Enzeru
Morrison in DC? Are you talking his appearance in Animal Man?
Didn't they turn him into an actual character called "The Writer", who got killed during a battle, because he couldn't type fast enough?
They are different characters fundamentally.
The character from Animal Man #26 literally was a metafictional avatar of the real-world writer(ie. Grant Morrison):
For all intents and purposes, that character was Morrison:
Conversely, "The Writer" character you mentioned appeared in an issue of Suicide Squad, and was written by Ostrander. The character was very obviously put there solely to mock Morrison's original intent(he even says as much), and was no longer written to be the Supreme Being. That depiction has absolutely NO bearing on the Morrison avatar, as he was written by Morrison himself IN Animal Man.
Writers can ultimately write themselves in a comic however they want. Sometimes they appear as average/lowly humans, which is how toon-force characters(like She-Hulk, Deadpool, Lobo, Doom, etc.) have been able to 'beat', or even 'kill', their own writers.
However, sometimes companies opt to go the full metafiction route with writers and put them in books with absolute Supreme Being status/privilege -- privileges which obviously transcend the boundaries/limitations of any other 'fictional' character(s) that appear in the comic book. As mentioned, we've seen this with writer avatars like Morrison, Carlin, Kirby, etc.
...And that level/status/caliber of Supreme Being is what is what I am referring to here. Because they are meant to be literal representations of the real world staff, they are above absolutely *any* fictional characters that appear in the comic book(s) by default... Even the likes of the Presence and TOAA(despite their 'omnipotence', they are still just fictional characters created by the people writing the issue, after all.) Again, this comes down to metafiction vs. normal fiction.
Originally posted by Enzeru
To me Marvels way is still the metafiction, if we ignore Starlins dumb "retcon".
Why would we ignore TOAA's depiction under Starlin, though?
I don't like the portrayal either(it's phucking stupid), but I still have to accept it for what it is. /shrug
