11-29-2005, 10:53 PM
In High School I was really into Michael Moorcock. He has this concept of the Eternal Champion, sort of a Platonic ideal hero that would manifest, along with aspects like a sidekick, a magic weapon, etc. It tied all of his pulpy fantasies together and made them overlap, so Eternal Champions could meet each other and such through dimensional rifts. Now that I think about it, it's very comic book, but I still think that some ambitious filmaker should take on Elric, his tortured albino Eternal Champion with the cursed sword Stormbringer.
Maybe you'd like Chinese epics because all the characters reoccur in later books in the form of their descendants. The only problem is that there are so damn many characters. Reading Outlaws of the Marsh before reading Three Kingdoms is a bit like watching Voyager before the original Star Trek.
Maybe you'd like Chinese epics because all the characters reoccur in later books in the form of their descendants. The only problem is that there are so damn many characters. Reading Outlaws of the Marsh before reading Three Kingdoms is a bit like watching Voyager before the original Star Trek.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse