Is illiteracy that widespread? Has the intrusion of the perverts into mainstream society affected also "comic books?" I keep reading rumors that that is the case.
You may be on to something.
Posted on 01/06/2012 5:34:36 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
If you are a conservative like me, you’ve been reading fewer and fewer comic books over the last 12 years. For those of you who know what I’m talking about, the weekly visit to the comic book shop has become either an exercise in irritation or a monotonous drill.
You pick up a superhero comic book featuring a childhood favorite of yours, hoping to reignite some of that magic you felt way back when and you see that the opening sequence in the comic deals with an oil rig disaster. You immediately and disappointingly know what’s going to be said, either by your childhood favorite or by some other character given credibility within the story. You turn the page, and sure enough, your childhood favorite grumbles about his/her country’s dependency on oil or how inherently dangerous oil drilling is to the environment and how it’s not worth it or simply mutters to him-or-herself briefly about the evils of corporate America. That’s when you put the comic back on the shelf and your local retailer loses a sale. (Sound familiar? Brightest Day #5 contained a similar scenario featuring Aquaman.)
You pick up another comic book featuring a superhero team you used to really enjoy and there’s a member on the team who shares a lot of the same socio-political views you do, but he doesn’t articulate them very well (by design, you can tell) and gets everything wrong (again, by design) and you realize that he’s the “team jackass” precisely because he is supposed to represent you. (Another Brightest Day example of this; issue #7 where Steve Ditko creation Hawk says he wrecked a restaurant’s juke box because it was playing a Dixie Chicks song. Hawk was created to represent conservatism during the Vietnam War era, but today he’s apparently a reckless caveman who doesn’t understand the very conservative idea of private property rights.) So you put that comic book back on the shelf and if you haven’t walked out by now, you’re sure to get at least three more experiences like these before finding a superhero comic that is, at best, not very political.
We see this all the time, don’t we? Black Canary just happens to make a comment about how supposedly unsafe SUVs are while pursuing a villain in one in the pages of Birds Of Prey. Over on the Marvel side, in the pages of Alpha Flight, a Canadian man parks in front of a fire hydrant while attempting to vote and he’s given a ticket for doing so. The man accuses the cop (Snowbird’s alter ego) of voter suppression and how she’s “harassing the patriots who are trying to change things”… to which she responds “Please, sir. We’re Canadian.”
Sure these little jabs and nods are individually nothing that can’t be dismissed… but they have a cumulative effect. They wear us down and eventually the excitement and magic of comic book superheroes becomes outweighed by our being annoyed. It’s happening more and more over the last dozen years: The people behind the scenes allowing their personal politics to bleed through into the stories of otherwise apolitical superheroes whose adventures are meant for everyone to enjoy. This in-and-of-itself wouldn’t be quite so bad if it weren’t always the same political views repeated over-and-over ad nauseum.
Simply put, there’s too much liberalism in comic books today....
I know comics are created by artists. I know that Marvel and DC offices are in New York City. I realized before I started typing this that asking for authentic conservatism in comic books from the Big Two to counter constant jabs, references and snide, preachy copy they print is like asking the mob to please leave garbage alone. I get that…
…but for the good of the comic book industry, this escalation and domination of liberal sentiment has got to stop and it’s gotta stop quick.
Everybody knows that when an entertainer goes political, he/she runs the very serious risk of cutting their audience by at least half. The comic book audience has been getting smaller and smaller and I think it’s time to honestly consider that a big part of the problem is the content...
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I popped this one of Stan at the last Dragoncon during the mass costume contest at long range. That was fun watching the people dress up.
http://tysonneil.smugmug.com/Events/Dragoncon-2011/18887174_vV3p6D#!i=1466962524&k=bdS4m4N
That would be a sufficient explanation for most people over about 15 years of age.
The only comic books we ever had were “Classics llustrated”.
Is illiteracy that widespread? Has the intrusion of the perverts into mainstream society affected also "comic books?" I keep reading rumors that that is the case.
I stopped reading comic books when I was about 11 years old. At the time, I probably would have thought a conservative was a sweet topping made from fruit for a biscuit or a slice of toast.
Is illiteracy that widespread? Has the intrusion of the perverts into mainstream society affected also "comic books?" I keep reading rumors that that is the case.
You may be on to something.
I guess the comic I collected most was Conan the Barbarian. I liked a lot of Marvel, including Thor, Fantastic Four, Daredevil. It's been decades since I've bought any.
They’ve been putting snarky liberal crap for 30 years at least. I remember the final straw back in 1991 for me when characters in Batman commented on the 10,000 Americans killed in the Oil War, during the first Golf War.
This was while it was still going on and I just quit right then. Cancelled all my orders for future comics and sold off my collection during the next 3 years and haven’t really read one since.
Sorry, but that Edward James Olmos is a flaming lib whacko.
As a comics pro myself, I would argue that there is nothing inherently “infantile” about the medium of comics, it’s a medium just like film, prose books and music are media. Infantile subject matter? Cardboard characters? Definitely, in the case of DC and Marvel. But check out Will Eisner to see the best of what can be expressed this way. He could put more substance in an eight-page story than most “serious writers” could manage in entire novels.
I know but my wife was a huge BSG fan. Me not so much. Hanging with Martin Landau for a few minutes (regardless of politics - I don’t know) was quite fun.
Libs slip the propaganda in everywhere. I was watching some doc about Area 51 on NatGeo tonight, and naturally the narrator talked about “cold war paranoia” as if the Russians posed no threat whatsoever. You’ll find lib propaganda in virtually every phase of American culture. I haven’t read comics for almost fifty years, so personally, it’s no big loss. But kids reading them now are probably getting a good dose of leftist slop slipped in whenever possible.
I suggest you stop buying the rope they are using to hang you.
Big dittoes on Eisner. What a talent; what a storyteller.
Groo. Did I err?
EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda (latest -Breitbart)
Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?The Obama administration purposefully reached out to the "arts" community to intentionally insert those messages into the works that people will see.That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big Hollywood entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?”
The question still requires debate but the facts do not.
The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable.
It was done to support Obama and his agenda.
-PJ
I have no doubt Obama would do that with the NEA. However, I have my doubts that the NEA is overseeing or funding comic books from giant corporations like Disney and Warner Brothers. More likely it’s just a case of lib writers pushing their agenda on their own
"Comic books...never read 'em..."
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