You know, the wife and I just sat down and watched last Monday’s episode of Castle. In this one, the suspect is a real-life superhero named Lone Vengeance who commits a pretty gruesome murder. Castle and Beckett track down the inspiration of the costumed vigilante, which is a comic book published by neither Marvel nor DC (though it does, as Castle points out, pick up inspirations from Deadpool to Daredevil to Spider-Man to the Black Panther). It turns out that it’s not published at all… it’s available online (and has something of a fanbase … in story, anyway).
So the killer … is from webcomics?
I’m just kinda stunned that webcomics are now part of police procedurals … and an especially smart one like Castle, which did a pretty good job convincing me that Nathan Fillion was a bonafide geek (which he probably really is).
The four-page prop comic from the episode IS available online, by the way. If you read it, though, you have to promise that you don’t start chopping down people in deserted alleyways.
Youp, I can totally see the Spider-Man inspiration, especially in how well he cuts that L in the guy’s but cheek. :p
You know, this looks pretty intriguing and I somehow want to see more, also hurray for webcomics in mainstream media.
Man I really want to go out and cut people up with a Katana now!
I wanted to do that before it was cool. JK
However in a serious note, how much responsibility can a comic or a movie take? I know ethically speaking the work is not to be blamed but there must be some kind of moral responsibility.
in bakuman manga ,around chapter 130 there is a saga where a thief robbed a bank using the protagonist mangas as inspiration, the authors become deppressed its worth a read and becomes an scandal that hurted pcp manga reputation
I don’t know these pages:
http://www.mangareader.net/219-15573-17/bakuman/chapter-2.html
http://www.mangareader.net/219-15573-18/bakuman/chapter-2.html
http://www.mangareader.net/219-15573-19/bakuman/chapter-2.html
kinda make me lose interest on it.
Well, just to put your mind at ease without posting any spoilers, the comic itself was hardly ever blamed by the cops or the show’s writers. The show actually put a very positive spin on comics. Castle said his favorite hero was Bruce Wayne (which Det. Beckett thought was unimaginative), while Det. Becket mentioned that her favorite was Elektra, her first comic was Sin City, and maintained a pull list with the local comic shop.
Dj those pages are when they were in school as stupid kids when they grew up they admitted how stupid they were because they though they knew everything.
and you can see how they mature as the series advances
Deserted alleyway? Well that’s a pretty reasonably request on your part.