[weegee]

The mainstream comic industry (DC and Marvel, they've been around over 60 years and are the Big Two) has been pushing a lot of PC crap for the past 12 years.

They seem to have really stepped up their efforts.

I only recently learned that DC editor Bob Schreck is openly bisexual. What he does in private isn't the issue but it would seem that some of the top dogs are pushing a heavy liberal agenda.

Some kids may still read comics but I think that the readers are somewhat older now. They still shouldn't have to be subjected to crappy storylines that insult their political beliefs (and the leadership of this country). Comics are an escapist entertainment.

I don't read comics by DC or Marvel these days (although I did get the new Dark Knight sequel).

Most of my publications are by the West Coast (Seattle) publishing company Fantagraphics. It is safe to say that their politics are left of the DNC. It also doesn't seem to affect many of the comics that they publish (the majority are apolitical). Love And Rockets has some homosexual or bisexual characters but it isn't a part of the story to show that "they are good people once you get to know them" or to show how they are victimized. Other comics like Daniel Clowes "Eightball" have no recurring characters, they are just short stories. Chris Ware's work is about isolationism and rejection and doesn't make topical references either. Even Robert Crumb hasn't been political in his new comix.

It is an odd sanctuary that I've found in the comics industry in the most unlikely place. Now the interviews in the Comics Journal can run for 60 pages and get to be political but some of the ideas advanced are so off that they are easy to dismiss (the comments help to frame the mindset of the artist being profiled).

[weegee]

Such BS stories could at least be tolerated if the media bias wasn't so bad. The pendulum never seems to swing to the right in such matters. Never is the conservative position voiced or the liberal position shown in a bad light.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Batman (badly mischaracterized by writer Joe Kelly) states that to attack a sovereign country without UN authorization would violate international law.

Completely out of character. Batman has violated international law numerous times. Hell, he once left the Justice League specifically over their refusal to let him violate International law (which led to the creation of the Outsiders).

[rdb3]

[HitmanLV]

Comics have gotten impossibly bad. I'm glad I left them pretty much cold turkey back in 1992 or so. They just got too expensive, too contrived, too self indulgent. When I want a comic fix, I read my silver age reprints or old comics - it doesn't get much better than the original Amazing Spider-Man 1-150 or so!

As for this story, it stinks, but it smacks of some hacjk writer being late on a deadline and hammering this out in one night for a throwaway single issue. I could be wrong, though.

[Sofa King]

This is why I don't buy DC comics.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I haven't read the issue you reference... I haven't read JLA since Grant Morrison left the series. I got tired of it shortly after Mark Waid took over the writing. He really tried to ape Morrison's style, but couldn't quite manage it, IMHO.

[DM1]

this is the reason i gave up collecting awhile ago
Ultimate Xmen had a naked GWB cowering to Magneto, Green Lantern had a Gay intern that was in love with him and every issue was how to tolerate etc. Captain America i heard berates the US saying we use blacks as experimental Guinea Pigs and i remember a few years back they had Captain America against the A bomb
they are all lame

[BradyLS]

You must be an exception, but all the comic book readers I know are die-hard libs. And the comics (like the movies) are heavily left-leaning, IMO.