I think it was Ayn Rand who said that most American males never really grow up. She said it came from a youthful and unhealthy fixation on comic books.
In her day, comics were one-off adventure stories that told silly stories. Now, comics are written at a literary level that is more Robinson Crusoe or Gulliver’s Travels.
Would she have said the same thing about Robinson Crusoe?
I wonder what she’d say about the perpetual mental teenagers we have running around calling themselves ‘women’ these days.
Scrooge McDuck, Sgt. Rock, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Woody Woodpecker . . .
Youthful and Unhealthy all the way.
She had a point. I was quite the comic book aficionado when I was 13. In fact, neighborhood kids would come to my house to check out my extensive collection because many of their parents wouldn't allow comic books in the house.
By time I was 16, comic books no longer had appeal to me. I had grown up. I also never got into video games except a brief fixation with PacMan and Space Invaders in the early 1980s at the Marine Corp e-club in Camp Pendleton. But I eventually ran out of quarters. An enlisted man only makes so much.
Movies based on comic books never appealed to me. I found the much ballyhooed "Dark Knight" pretty awful and completely not believable. Now a suspension of disbelief is essential to appreciate most movies, but this was just way over the top.