Posted on 02/26/2006 1:58:25 PM PST by Shade2
The Battle Outside Raging, Superheroes Dive In
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES Published: February 20, 2006 Embedded reporters on the front lines of war. The search for weapons of mass destruction. An attack on civil liberties. Sounds like a job for ... Spider-Man?
America's current real-world political issues will wind themselves into the lives of the heroes of Marvel Comics in "Civil War," a seven-issue limited monthly series set to begin in May. In the series, the beliefs of many well-known Marvel characters, including Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Spider-Man, will be challenged.
Marvel will also publish a related series, beginning in June, that is to appear biweekly. Plans for that series, "Civil War: Front Line," are to be announced by the company on Saturday at the first New York Comic-Con, a consumer and business trade show.
Joe Quesada, editor in chief of the Marvel Comics division of Marvel Entertainment, said the idea for "Civil War" came out of one of the company's creative summits, which are used to assess the state of the heroes. "Stagnation means death," said Mr. Quesada, adding that Stan Lee, the creator of many of Marvel's characters, often advised piling problems onto heroes to keep them fresh.
"Civil War" provides problems in spades. The story opens with a reckless fight between a novice group of heroes (filming a reality television show) and a cadre of villains. The battle becomes quite literally explosive, killing some of the superheroes and many innocent bystanders. That crystallizes a government movement to register all super-powered beings as living weapons of mass destruction. The subsequent Registration Act will divide the heroes into two camps, one led by Captain America, the other by Iron Man.
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Ah Iron Man. Tony Stark, the multi-billionaire industrialist. CEO of Hallibur... I mean Stark Enterprises.
I would expect Sub-Mariner will go to his roots and be the real leader of the "non-registering" heroes.
Yeah, but as long as Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark are around, they can't go liberal completely. Batman and Iron Man are too popular to get axed, even if they are rich white men running large military/industrial corporations.
Before about 1969, the comic were awesome. That was the golden age. But the late sixties, early seventies period saw even Spidey and Super Boy whining about the rights of criminals in prison.
Not that I minded the Lois Lane and Supergirl comics with mini skirts and hot pants though.
Currently, Hal Jordan (Air Force test pilot) is Green Lantern, and he's straight.
I'm not aware of any gay Green Lanterns. Of course, the Corps was, at its height, several thousand strong, with the majority being non-human, so it's hard to determine the sexuality of each and every one. As to the humans, Alan Scott has a daughter, Hal Jordan liked women (albeit not always human), Kyle Rayner had a couple of girlfriends, John Stewart married an alien woman, and Guy Gardner is a horndog (but perhaps compensating for something).
It's possible you're thinking of Kyle Rayner, who had gay friends, but was AFAIK straight. He almost knocked up Alan Scott's daughter.
Tony Stark served briefly as W's SecDef in the comics. He wouldn't admit to being either a Democrat or Republican. Oliver "Green Arrow" Queen is an uber-lefty. Carter "Hawkman" Hall is a conservative. Wally "Flash" West was an admitted conservative in his Teen Titan days, but I don't know about now.
This is just Marvels attempt to rip off DC's megapopular Infinite Crisis books.
Marvel the house of (stolen) ideas.
How long ago was this ?
I hope that was the comic I saw !
or another childhood memory shattered !
Ultimate Captain American is clearly a strong conservative. Mainstream Captain America and Superman are characters with old fashioned values and great patriotism, but they are portrayed as very tolerant of liberal ideas.
Canadian Hero Northstar caught The Gay about 14 years ago.
IIRC, he was the first.
Very sad, but at least he's Canadian ;)
WTF?
Right after Marvel started the Beyonder saga (1986 ?), DC came out with "Crisis On Infinite Earths" as a piss-poor copy.
DC.
The house with two heroes and a legion of clones ;)
It was in 2002. This is the only thing that I can think of that may give the impression that a gay GL was shown. There are about 5 human Green Lanterns and they have all been shown to be straight. Some have had relationships with aliens who were clearly female, but not gay relationships.
I can't even recall a gay alien GL, though some of the aliens may not be of any particular gender (may reproduce asexually).
True. And Civil War is quite different in content from Infinite Crisis other than both being big crossover events. House of M was quite different.
Clearly, DC's "All Star" line is a rip-off of Marvel's "Ultimate" line.
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