As a guy who crafts stories for your entertainment, believe me when I tell you it sure is gratifying to have thoughtful guys like good ol' Tim O'Neil turning the pages on your stuff. While quickly addressing the vagaries of creator-owned publishing, Tim turns his practiced eye on The Black Diamond and totally gets nearly everything Jon and I were going for with the book.
"But still, does it work? I've given a qualified 'yes', even though I admit I'm still chewing it over. Ask me again in a few years how the book has aged. It took me a while to 'get' Planet of the Capes after my initial read, after all. I 'get' Black Diamond: it's a ballsy piece of storytelling sleight-of-hand that almost careens tragically into the 'too clever by half' column but just manages to stay on the side of the angels, due pretty much single-handedly to Young's sure hand. I will repeat what I said a few hundred words ago: Young is a much better writer than a businessman (and he's no slouch as a businessman), and it's a shame he doesn't write far, far more than he does. For better or for worse, I could do with another dozen or more comics that challenged and stymied me as much as Black Diamond."
And, honestly, there's not an author alive who wouldn't appreciate reading this about his own work: "I don't think I've ever read a Larry Young comic I've disliked. I still recommend Astronauts in Trouble as one of the best hard-sci-fi series of the last decade, and likewise, Planet of the Capes is a criminally underrated bit of deconstructionist superhero narrative." Thanks very much, Tim. You may be heartened to hear I'll have at least two more out this year.
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...and a shout-out for my man Jon Proctor, who's blogging about his post Black Diamond mini Shadrach Stone, written by Giant Robot Warriors ace Stuart Moore.
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