[Absolutely Nobama]

Ping!

[screaminsunshine]

Supercomrade is on the way.

[LRS]

What next? Bizzaro gets elected as President?

Oh, wait a minute...

[KarlInOhio]

Yesterday, Reuters reported that in Action Comics #900, Superman is mulling over renouncing his American citizenship and becoming a citizen of the world.

Neal Boortz's replacement today pointed out that Superman got honorary citizenship from every country in the United Nations in Superman, issue C-31, November 1974.

So I guess that means he's a citizen of every country except for the US and Switzerland (and a few new ones which joined the UN after 1974).

[chickadee]

You're not heartless and you are absolutely right. CBS runs a series of "public service" (CBS cares- barf) ads that are just revolting. This particular one really offended me. I usually tape shows now so I can fast forward through this gunk.

[Anima Mundi]

While he is at it (changing his citizenship) he should also change his name to Stupidman.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Not a bad rant for a new arrival.

+1

:)

[djf]

Totally agree!

I have commented on other threads how these days, it seems like everybodys got a gimmick.

Something. Something to sell you. Something to convince you. Some group/person that’s got a major problem and needs your help, a real tear-jerker...

Plastic, plastic, plastic. Agendas and victims everywhere. You can’t get away from them, they will chase you down and haunt your very soul.

[Salamander]

It’s everywhere.

I listen to a conservative Christian radio station off and on all day and two days ago, there was a message about the cross-dresser/”trans-gender”/*whatever* who got beat up in McDonalds.

Not once but *many* times, the Christian preacher referred to the beaten up male creature as “she”, “her” and “woman”.

I was mortified.

I do not care how much butchery and surgery is performed on a body-dysmorphic individual, until they successfully “change” every single chromosome in their body to the opposite one, they’re *still* the man or woman they were born as, originally.

To hear this “PC” sermon was heart breaking.

[chickadee]

I know I already put my 2 cents in, but this topic really hits home with me. Another thing I can’t stand is all these businesses that advertise that they are “green” and the endless sponsoring of various “charitable” events, bike rides for various cancers, mailing in seals from yogurt etc. It never stops. It makes the whole world seem like one big disaster that can only be saved by me spending money on their product. It has the opposite effect on me.

[Dr. Sivana]

Here's a news flash for DC Comics, Archie Comics, and the NFL: [ . . . ] We don't want or need to be preached to every waking moment.

As a lad, I bought comics in the '70s with the expectation that they would appreciate in value like the comics in the '40's did. The truly valuable collectibles are those things that no one would think to keep. I also liked reading them.

But I was of the last generation of kids reading comic books.

If you look at Gesell guide to child development (written in 1950s), ten years old is the peak of boys reading superhero comics. Now, go to one of the few stores that still carries comic books (e.g. Borders) and pick up sone of the non-Manga superhero titles, and it is clear that they are now trying to sell comic books to the same generation that was buying them in the '70s. Too many insider references, certainly a lot of subject matter innapropriate for youngsters.

IF a comic book can find a way to make its story onto the newswire or blogs, then the odds of a bunch of people who ordinarily don't buy them might pick up a copy. Collectors always like round numbers, and #900 is pretty impressive in terms of comic book numbering (Action beginning in June, 1938).

So, it's like when Superman or Batman gets "killed" (always resurrected), Superman marries Lois Lane, or the entire comic book universe gets destroyed (Crisis on Infinite Earts), it is all about selling books. Then, after the comic sales drop off, it is time to bring back Superman, Batman the Barry Allen Flash, and all the rest.

Now, in the case of the Archie comic, I think that was a HUGE mistake. Except for the too perfectly shaped Betty, Veronica, Midge etc. wearing too little starting in the '60's, these comics were considered harmless compared to the horror/crime/satire genres erupting in the 50's (See "The ten cent plague").

Once in a while, Archie comics were even open to explicitly Christian mesages (sometimes coming from unlikely characters like Mr. Lodge).

The homosexual character introduced certainly gave Veronica #200 a big bump in sales. Tens of thousands of aging sexual deviants bought a copy to place next to the Playbill from La Cage Aux Folles and a stack of Barry Manilow CDS.

The cost to Archie Comics is that parents can never trust the content of said comic magazine ever again. And youngsters who don't want that stuff in their comic books will avoid them. And frankly, they should NOT have let Jughead anywhere NEAR that character; he takes enough abuse as it is.

Comic strips, and by extension comic books, have a reader base that is more averse to change than most. Dagwood must never get a new hair cut. Dilbert's tie must (almost) always be sticking out. Lex Luthor and I (Dr. Sivana) must always be trying to take over the world. It could well be that we are pretty much at the end of (non-manga) comic books as a medium. Better to let it die than to ruin an entire epic history with cheap shots of heroin like a deviant Archie character or a Superman who rejects the American Way.

[McGruff]

[Dr. Sivana]

Of course, the whole Superman thing could be a ruse that will be explained later (Action #901)

[GSWarrior]

I am on your side about Superman and Archie, I don’t see breast cancer awareness as being as insidious as the other two examples.

[Lazlo in PA]

A rant on comic books. I know who you are now.

[GOPJ]

Here's a news flash for DC Comics, Archie Comics, and the NFL: (And this goes double for the bourgeois socialists in Hollywood) We The People want to be entertained. We don't want or need to be preached to every waking moment.

Liberals are incapable of walking in another person's moccasins - - but wouldn't it be wonderful if the insensitive jerks on the left could imagine what their world would be like if every movie they watched preached a conservative line?

And every comic book series took stands against people who welcomed illegals? Or laughed at gun control 'nuts'? Or if TV shows routinely mocked union members? Would THEY want to pay to see that 'entertainment'?

Then again, few have ever met a liberal elite capable of empathy...

[Repulican Donkey]

Superman was an illegal alien “coyoted” in by his old man in a space ship.

[ßuddaßudd]

F U S M

[wideminded]

We The People want to be entertained. We don't want or need to be preached to every waking moment. If the entertainment industry would stop being so self-righteous for a second, it would realize that We The People are not idiots. We know the world sucks and sometimes we need an escape from it.

"Nowadays the theater has left its innocence behind, taken upon itself the task of instructing and saving humanity. ... That sense of enjoyment, the fun it all used to be, has disappeared. Some of todays dramatists seem to think that a play need be nothing more than a placard advertising the inequality of the homosexual in society or the difficulty of practicing incest in public. They no longer trouble to entertain."

- Robert Morley, 1966 (from his autobiography)