Posted on 05/11/2006 11:34:59 PM PDT by Lorianne
I like the "Batman vs. Al-Qaida" idea a lot better.
This sounds like Marvel ripped off the premise of Disney's "The Incredibles", but did it with a "let's-bash-Bush" spin.
In Disney's version, the ACLU goes after the supers, and the government has to create the Superhero Relocation Program, driving all heroes underground.
Rolling Stone magazine reviewed the movie in 2005, calling it, "a hidden right-wing agenda".
Proof for the masses, that lawyers are the real superheroes....
Interesting.
It's not as bad as DC where Bush is Lex Luthor and Batman is against unilateralism. And Superman is told that if he doesn't support the president then he sides with the terrorist.
Oh, not to mention they had Lex stage a terrorist attack on America in order to invade the Middle East.
What no illegal Mexican super hero?
I'm not buying the idea that it's so directly connected to real life, I think this author is just projecting his own biases onto the subject matter. I'll check out the first couple before I make my judgement.
Unfortunately, comics are mostly left wing these days. Google for Batman: Seduction Of the Gun, sometime.
Kind of stupid considering Batman is the poster child for unilateralism.
"Doctor Strange isn't taking Washington's side."
Read that as:
Doctor Strange sides with the Terrorists.
"I like the "Batman vs. Al-Qaida" idea a lot better."
Me too. I wont be buying this civil war thing.
How can they write it and not take a side?
They can't say this is good/this is bad? They're writing a COMIC BOOK and that's all comics do is explore good/bad.
It's sadly appropriate IMHO. I'm not from the greatest generation, not even from the baby boomer generation. I was in my teens in the 80s and that's old enough to remember how were were all supposed to be appauled at how the east germans tapped all of their citizen's phone conversations -- and yet the NSA is now plugged into our telcos and even has spy boxes at the major internet vendors (and had the EFF's lawsuit for illegal domestic spying squashed on a rarely used national security rule).
We were supposed to be appauled at how the cubans ran gulags and threw people in jail without trials and appeals and rule of law and then we opened a prison right next door that was just as bad.
We were' supposed to be the good guys, we didn't torture prisoners until Abu Garab.
The greatest generation would be sick, and it's no surprise their super hero is upset about the world as well.
This isn't the America we're supposed to be, not the one I grew up learning about anyway.
bump for Chris
I also doubt that that the Communiist gulags ever willingly provided religious literature & prayer times for the inmates.
Holy mackerel, really? There's a reason I don't read comics anymore. Sigh.
Why?
The only thing Marvel did right was when they had that traitor klinton kick Cap out of the country.
Steve Rogers was a 1940's Patriot who saw Pearl Harbor and signed up, who's side do you think he would take today?
Keep in mind that this was America when Hollywood had Jimmy Stewart, and the media wasn't trying to pussify the US.
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