Damn! You are invisible! I missed it!
Sorry.
Thanks. I’m not familiar with the book (not a sf fan at all) so I can’t speak to that. I like the movie for its cheesiness. The premise is silly, the acting is pretty lame, and the sets and art direction cheap. All of that adds up to a really entertaining movie for me. A classic example of “so bad, it has to be good” sort of thing.
A chapter from “Generation of Vipers”, on Momism:
www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/momism.html
I’m getting a little disenchanted . . . He’s just gone on for half a chapter about Freud and Jung and how every man in America is screwed up because of their blood-sucking mothers . . . Let’s get back to the plot, Phil?
Wait…I just figured it out–Philip Wylie is Dave Sim* :eek:
*You have to read down a ways to get it. But if you don’t want to, Dave Sim is a comic book artist/writer who went insane and decided that women (mothers and wives in particular) are eeeeeeeee-vil (“Demons, vipers and scorpions”) and intentionally screw up men. Just 'cause they’re evil. And crafty. Oh…and not as bright as men. (Which is quite a trick, that.)
I have Tomorrow! right at hand. It was first published in Jan. 1954, and it is a run of the mill story of the affect of a nuclear attack on America on a Middle American city. I don’t remember it as a particularly good example of the genre.
OK, I’ve about had it with Philip Wylie . . . This book, at least, seems to be just an excuse for his long-winded theories on Freud and Jung and why all American men are pussies and how they were screwed up mentally by American women and how HE, Philip Wyle, is the only person smart enough to tell everyone where there faults lie, and why does everyone resent him so much just because he’s right and we’re all wrong?
Jesus, it’s like talking to my father! No wonder he had this book . . .
“Their” faults. As I’m sure Mr. Wylie would point out, smugly adding that “there is no unintentional typo. It’s in Jung, people!”
Roy Thomas adapted Gladiator for comic books. The first half appeared as “Man-God” in an issue of Marvel Preview (or some similarly-titled black and white comic) and the second half in, I think, Young All-Stars for DC (as part of Iron Munro’s backstory).
Yeah, I seem to remember reading about the Young All-Stars connection somewhere.
Yeah, mea culpa. Still, you should check outMan-God.