Jim,
Guess it's only fair, since I recently mistook your comments
for Bill's, but Channing wrote the posting you're responding
to (though I have posted comments in general agreement with
most of these points).
However, let me respond to one thing:
"And Hammer's enjoyment of killing ALWAYS comes from the fact
that he's dealing out deserved punishment to killers, not
from homophobia."
It can't be both? I don't remember enough specifics of
Vengeance Is Mine to comment on it in particular, but while
Hammer may "ALWAYS" be meting out "deserved punishment," that
doesn't mean it's ALL he's doing. Of course, it's here that
Spillane and Hammer become blurred. If the author
consistently makes the killer a woman (or pseudo-woman) of a
certain type, then the hero is killing both the killer AND a
certain type of woman. The two evils become one.
Mark
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