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Posts tagged Kill Your Boyfriend
Posted 8 months ago
“Girls Can Read It Too.” - Kill Your Boyfriend, art by Philip Bond & D’Israeli. DC/Vertigo, 1995.
Posted 1 year ago
Riiiight… He’s objectified you so now you’re perfectly free to become a murderer. Nice “logic.”
Posted 1 year ago
GM: I try not to judge my characters too much. For the purposes of [Kill Your Boyfriend], I was writing from a place where I was totally behind their unlikely actions.
Sometimes, when you’re a powerless teenager, the very thought of an anti-social spree can seem like the only sane response to a cynical, world of lying teachers, hypocritical politicians and parents too caught up in their own bullshit. Who hasn’t smashed a few store and car windows, stolen stuff, tormented teachers all the way to the mental home or skipped school at one time or another in their young life? I know I have.
NRAMA: You state in the afterward of the 1998 edition that the boy is Dionysus, and Dionysus is mentioned just after the boy appears in the story. While The Boy does spur The Girl on by doing what she can’t he doesn’t meet Dionysus’ fate – he chooses death by his own hand, as opposed to being torn apart by his followers (in a way, he tears them apart). I’m curious as to how you see the myth as influencing the overall story, and whether you see the climax as a subversion of this myth.
GM: Actually. I think the Boy is torn apart by his “follower” - the Girl in this case - in the sense that she actually grows beyond him and becomes more of a genuine, empowered threat to society than even he is. She becomes a maenad.
The Boy represents the intrusion into the Girl’s life of wild, chaotic, liberating energies, like Dionysus or Tyler Durden in the later Fight Club, only real.
Established June 10th, 2010 as the first Grant Morrison fanblog on Tumblr, FYGM is curated by Alexander Ryking. This blog will also feature non-Morrisonian content.
