[TheBigB]

Comics used to be patriotic. Having acquired more than a few Golden-Age era books, I love the flag covers, the ones with heroes punching out Hitler, Stalin, or Tojo, etc. But nowadays even Captain America has turned lefty. I'm hoping this was a onoe-shot thing that Kelly got out of his system. if it continues, I won't buy another issue of JLA.

[kallisti]

i remember the first JLA. at that time my fave was sgt. rock and the howlin' commandos.

[theFIRMbss]

>Comics used to be patriotic

Superficially.
But they always presented
"normal" people as

hopeless drek needing
a superhero to fight
their battles for them.

(And let's remember
that "Man of Steel" really meant
ol' Joseph Stalin.)

There has always been
an undertone of "people
are sheep" in comics.

(It's my belief that
"Marvel Comics" was named for
Marvel Parsons, and

that links comics to
a certain group of people
and links them to a

very organized
global movement built around
libertarian

thinking. And this thought --
sometimes -- has as much contempt
for "patriots" as

anyone. I think
the organized comic world
is a strange, strange place...)

[KC_Conspirator]

Comics used to be patriotic. Having acquired more than a few Golden-Age era books, I love the flag covers, the ones with heroes punching out Hitler, Stalin, or Tojo, etc. But nowadays even Captain America has turned lefty.

No kidding! I particularly was disgusted with the story where Captain America blamed America for the attacks of 911. And the idiots in the industry wonder why their sales numbers have gone into the trash? Oh how I long for the days when he fought real Nazi's like the Red Skull.