[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

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[Richard Kimball]

Gosh. How original. Let's see...Dark Night Returns, The Watchmen, The Incredibles, the X-men, gee. Ten thousand titles I don't even recall. Guess they're going to run the same plot for another ten years until the next Frank Miller comes up with something new.

[Personal Responsibility]

This is what I always disliked about linking comics with reality. In any superhero-based world, there would be no invading armies looking for WMD. There would be a telepath or super-speed type searching everyone and everything.

In DC, any President not named Luthor could have had Superman do this by himself with reasonable certainty that Supes would go for it.

The Flash, Professor Xavier, Jean Grey, Psimon, Zatanna, Dr. Fate etc...all could tell within minutes if any country had WMD. Making it a running plotline as if the super-beings were bound as we are is more than silly; It defies the nature of the comics themselves.

[Pox]

So, artists will be mostly coming from Liberal Arts education, and it's not particularly hard to see where this will lead.

Certainly not surprising, seeing as Liberal/progressive/socialist/communist thoughts are already what are primarily bouncing around in the heads of the cartoonists, IMO.

Can't stick to good vs evil with shades of gray, gotta go hard left ya know!

[sig226]

Was it a Spiderman comic or a Superman comic that was written to push Virginia to pass their, 'one gun a month,' law?

Whichever one it was, I was amazed that a state could tell people they were proud to write laws taken from a comic book. That was when I gave up on them..

Now I guess we'll have Captain America dress up in pink and go beat up a few of Fred Phelps' morons at a soldier's funeral (they're evil right wingers after all.)

[supercat]

Indeed, the mutant creatures of the X-Men are widely considered to be metaphors for the struggles of outsiders in American society, including minorities and gays. (The third X-Men movie reaches theaters Friday.)

How about gun owners? Minorities and gays don't have to be registered.

[LS]

In the '60s, Marvel used to be solidly American. I mean, "Captain America?" They had a character the Fantastic Four fought called the "Hate Monger," who turned out to be Hitler; there was the "Red Ghost" and his commie apes. By the late 60s, they started to get more PC. Now, Marvel is much like the rest, although the treatment of SpiderMan 2 was good.

[Fintan]

I'll stick with more intellectual pursuits...

[mewzilla]

Civil War, for instance, explores the issue of civil liberties in the wake of a deadly explosion in a Connecticut neighborhood during the filming of a superhero reality show. Soon, superheroes are at war over mandatory registration, with dissenters facing terms in a prison that will remind readers of Guantánamo Bay.

Snort.

[sig226]

And here he is: