Comments on: How Does the Story End? http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/writing/how-does-the-story-end/ Science Fiction Novelist, Blogger, Web Programmer Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:11:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: David Louis Edelman http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/writing/how-does-the-story-end/#comment-1472 David Louis Edelman Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:12:43 +0000 http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/?p=301#comment-1472 Ha! I just <em>knew</em> I couldn't write something about Batman on my blog without getting a comment from you, Lou. ;-) Ha! I just knew I couldn’t write something about Batman on my blog without getting a comment from you, Lou. ;-)

]]> By: Lou Anders http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/writing/how-does-the-story-end/#comment-1474 Lou Anders Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:01:11 +0000 http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/?p=301#comment-1474 <i>Bruce Wayne perseveres when a lesser man would have given up. Whether he actually succeeds in capturing the Joker or not is of secondary concern.</i> Bingo. One of my all time favorite lines from the entire history of Batman is from an otherwise unmemorable Denny O'Neil tale from the 70s wherein, upon witnessing a murder scene, O'Neil writes "One more tattered shred of his faith in humanity breaks lose and falls to the floor." Dark Knight Returns was a perfect ending until Miller sold it out with a pointless and ill-crafted sequel. I'm pretty big on the Batman Animated series, btw, and their Return of the Joker is a pretty good ending in my book. As to the larger (non-Batman) context you speak to, "how you chop it" applies to characters like Batman. I'm not sure it applies to other narratives, where good <i>can</i> triumph over evil more permanently. Bruce Wayne perseveres when a lesser man would have given up. Whether he actually succeeds in capturing the Joker or not is of secondary concern.

Bingo. One of my all time favorite lines from the entire history of Batman is from an otherwise unmemorable Denny O’Neil tale from the 70s wherein, upon witnessing a murder scene, O’Neil writes “One more tattered shred of his faith in humanity breaks lose and falls to the floor.”

Dark Knight Returns was a perfect ending until Miller sold it out with a pointless and ill-crafted sequel. I’m pretty big on the Batman Animated series, btw, and their Return of the Joker is a pretty good ending in my book.

As to the larger (non-Batman) context you speak to, “how you chop it” applies to characters like Batman. I’m not sure it applies to other narratives, where good can triumph over evil more permanently.

]]> By: Al http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/writing/how-does-the-story-end/#comment-1473 Al Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:51:28 +0000 http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/?p=301#comment-1473 I thought stories ended when the editor says there are no more extensions to the deadline? :) I thought stories ended when the editor says there are no more extensions to the deadline? :)

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