Saturday 3 July 2021

Inns And Demons In Different Multiverses

This blog appreciates the three story-telling media:

narrative, which is verbal;

drama, which is usually audiovisual but just visual in mime and just auditory on the radio;

the sequential art story-telling medium, which is usually visual-verbal, rarely just visual.

Interconnected prose narrative fantasies by Poul Anderson present the Old Phoenix Inn and Satan whereas interconnected graphic fantasies by Neil Gaiman and Mike Carey present the Inn of the Worlds' End and Lucifer Morningstar after he has retired as Lord of Hell, an extraordinary concept.

When I want a visual alternative to prose late at night, I usually turn to graphic novels rather than to dvds and then find dramatic parallels like two inter-universal inns and two versions of the Devil.

2 comments:

S.M. Stirling said...

Ordinary writers have influences; great writers steal.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!

Paul: Drama can also be verbal, as when you simply read the text of a play.

Mr. Stirling: And the GREATEST of writers plunder, loot, and sack! (Smiles)

Examples I've thought of being Homer, Virgil, Dante, among the poets. And some of the greatest prose writers in English were Swift, Sam Clemens, Kipling, etc. Others might well include others.

Ad astra! Sean