FANTASTIC FOUR post

[Gothos]

I just killed a hour comparing the Fantastic Four to Joseph Campbell's four functions on my blog. See whatcha think.



http://arche-arc.blogspot.com/2008/04/campbells-fantastic-four-functions.html

[MDG]

I tried to do this with the four Myers-Briggs Type Indicator temperaments once.

[MichikoS]

Let me guess...

Reed - INTP
Sue - ENFJ
Ben - ISFJ
Johnny - ESFJ

This is the "classic" Lee-Kirby FF lineup, of course. There has been little consistency in characterization in the modern era, as far as I can tell. In fact, one could make a case that "character" is not recognized at all by post-modern storytellers.

Michi

[Sir Tim Drake]

Let me guess...

Reed - INTP
Sue - ENFJ
Ben - ISFJ
Johnny - ESFJ

This is the "classic" Lee-Kirby FF lineup, of course. There has been little consistency in characterization in the modern era, as far as I can tell. In fact, one could make a case that "character" is not recognized at all by post-modern storytellers.

Michi

According to the deconstructionist critic J. Hillis Miller, a "character" is just a collection of arbitrary signifiers.

[MichikoS]

Signifiers, yes. Arbitrary? I don't think so. But that is the essence of the deconstructionist critique, isn't it? That there is nothing essential "underneath" the signifiers. Well, I'm not there. Too much of the Romanticist in me.

Michi

[Gothos]

Let me guess...

Reed - INTP
Sue - ENFJ
Ben - ISFJ
Johnny - ESFJ

This is the "classic" Lee-Kirby FF lineup, of course. There has been little consistency in characterization in the modern era, as far as I can tell. In fact, one could make a case that "character" is not recognized at all by post-modern storytellers.

Michi

Postmodernism pretty much killed the Marvel Universe, didn't it? After thirty years of fan-writers trying to keep the FF's backgrounds reasonably consistent, who knows what to go by any more? Now there's Morrison's version and Waid's version and (I think) Ellis' version-- do any of them have anything to do with one another, much less the original FF?