Posted on 04/28/2011 9:22:29 AM PDT by mandaladon
Left-wing storylines generally are not box-office blockbusters, yet Hollywood liberals insist on making message movies anyway.
The same is true, and has been for decades, for comic books.
The latest example involves the quintessential American superhero, Superman (h/t e-mail tipster John Craig).
According to Laura Hudson of ComicsAlliance.com, the Man of Steel will renounce his U.S. citizenship -- although, technically, isn't he an illegal alien? -- before the United Nations in Action Comics #900:
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MAGNIFICENT!
It wasn’t the UN who changed his diapers, kept him from being dissected by scientists and brought him up the American way.
Why would a leftist even read a Superman comic book? Wouldn’t this hurt the profits?
It disappeared in the last movie, roughly ninety minutes before we learned that Superman is secretly a deadbeat dad.
The new film had upset some Superman purists before its opening, once news surfaced that the plot of the movie had the Man of Steel learning that girlfriend Lois Lane had given birth to his illegitimate son. Others objected to news that the flick's screenwriters had insisted that the famous phrase "truth, justice and the American way" be exorcised from the story in order to avoid offending other nations.Related thread:
-- from the thread Superman Returns, Crashes, Burns at Box Office (liberal hollywood once again turns off America?)
I didn’t even know he was an American citizen.
That's Hollyweird in a nutshell! Nothing original has come out of that sewer in decades.
What kind of idiot lets their kids read modern-day comics at this stage of our cultural decay? They’re all aimed at morally numbed teens these days.
One of the reasons* I stopped taking my kids to the public library is that they had an enormous comic book collection- Scrooge McDuck and Pokemon mixed in with stuff like League of Extraordinary Gentleman and The Watchmen- right next to the children’s section. I don’t know where sanity has gone....
*The other reason being that they had rather graphic sex education books shelved on the same wall as the toddler board books- and at floor level, too. Nothing like telling your two year old to pick out a book and having them come back with http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-You-Getting-Smart-Private/dp/0142410586/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
I still want to get Bugger Wars: Burning Earth, even though it’s developed by Marvel.
I expect there will be a costume change.
Even Superman hates 0bama.
Get the Kryptonite.
Makes me think we need our own distinctly Christian cultural sources. What do you think? Either Superman is substantially Christian or we don’t buy the product whether it be movies or toys? Or reminds me of the debate only select Christian professors for your Christian college or do you let “Satan” teach if he is actually the best in his field, such as medicine or physics. I love a diverse example of entertainment yet when some actor gets up and tells me how I should be shunned or damaged for my beliefs I have started to shy away from spending money on media with which that actor is connected.
How can he? He wasn’t born in the US. He wasn’t formally adopted by his earth parents.
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