DMZ2112
Chaotic Looseleaf
I mean, sure, that's true. Nothing's new under the sun, as they say. I have difficulty believing that the authors of the MCU do a lot of reading from the '30s.Hard disagree.
Whedon, despite being a man of many sins, is merely a whipping boy for the sins of others here. He didn't start the fire, it was always burning - and you can see that all the way back to the 30s (perhaps even the 1600s - the Rude Mechanicals etc. - but I think that's stretching it) in various forms. He just was particularly influential briefly in the '90s, but the reason he was influential was that we were already talking like that - as is easily seen by looking at game-related comic-strips from the era.
You think so? Can't say I share that opinion, but it's a matter of taste, I suppose.Whedon also had relatively good judgement about it - when to use it, when not to, and so on, and that cannot be said for the majority of his imitators.
I agree that his imitators are worse.