I have no investment in comic books. I don’t want to generalize this, but I really don’t recall anyone in my social circle – or anyone I knew at all, really – reading them after about age 12.
So in the “epic battle“ between DC and Marvel, I vote “present“. If I care to vote at all.
Which I don’t.
Watching the descent of Hollywood into endless reboots of DC and Marvel properties is not the most depressing aspect of watching western culture today. But it’s not far from the bottom of the barrel, to be honest.
I’m not saying, I want the comic book industry to kill itself off.
But if I did, I’d want to see a lot of stories like this:
The “gay Superman“ gimmick a couple years ago was one thing; at least he still looked like Superman.
The anorexic superman played by “transgender man“?
Well, isn’t that just so 21st-century.
UPDATE: I’m told I’ve fallen for a joke tweet.
Then it’s a pretty brilliant joke, since the premise is exactly that plausible, in Hollywood, these days.
It’s a joke tweet.
Since Musk took Twitter’s helm, the anti-trans twitter users are routing the pro-trans twitterers.
As far as comic books go, the superheroes are obviously pagan gods, wielding super powers with human psychology, and they are immortal.
still not as woke as pregnant Joker giving birth to a son
the man who stopped laughing #4
One of the interesting things about “superheroes” is that early “Superman” comics show someone akin to Charles Atlas, and modern versions show someone more akin to today’s steroid-assisted bodybuilders. So to be a superhero, I guess you do better living with chemistry?
The saga of Ellen Page is so sad to me. She used to be such a pretty girl, now she looks like a refugee from Joseph Mengele’s labs.
bike;
Totally agree. Sadly, I believe she’ll end up with severe regrets or worse.
This will give your new SuperQueer™ County attorney an comic book options to be sworn in with next time!
Did you know that the Joker just had a baby?
You would be surprised, maybe, how many DC & Marvel artists and writers and writers are homosexual and transexual.
It attracts that sort of person, the myth that comic books were drawn by gee-whiz, pro-America types has never been true.
One thing that has not changed is that most of the people in the industry are biologically male, and I can kind of see how that would be. Men are more drawn to creating formal fantasy worlds than women are.
The latest Twitter files have dropped. This time the collater is Alex Berenson, who was banned from Twitter in the pre-Musk days for attacking the consensus on covid & the vaccine.
The phrase “peer reviewed” comes up a bit in the criticism of Berenson by Big Pharma. Take a look at this substack article on the way “peer review” has been corrupted: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review. Key sentence? “That all changed after World War II. Governments poured funding into research, and they convened “peer reviewers” to ensure they weren’t wasting their money on foolish proposals.”
Thus the modern politisation of science began.
Because, of course…
“Gunfire suspected of being accidental wounded one person inside Southdale Center in Edina early Monday afternoon and put part of the mall on lockdown for nearly an hour, officials said.
The shooting occurred at 12:10 p.m. and prompted a large police response, said city spokeswoman Lauren Siebenaler.
Officers detected blood inside the mall but did not find who was hit by what appears to have been “an accidental discharge of a firearm,” Siebenaler said.”
Jamal dropped his nine when his pants fell to his knees, and in preparation for a smash and grab, he pulled them back up to just below his ass, and it went off.
They gone.
So, the argument Berenson is making is that if you are not in a high risk group (over 70 years old, comorbidity, etc.) you are at such low risk for death or hospitalisation for covid that you should avoid the vaccine & instead rely on the natural immunity that would result from getting covid. Seems like a reasonable, debatable point that should be raised in the public square.
But people on the board of Big Pharma tried to ban Berenson.
I wonder what the Libertarians think about this? Here is Big Business, acting in the pursuit of profit, working diligently to restrict the liberty of others, and doing so outside of direct government pressure. The Pfizer board member (Scott Gottlieb) didn’t go through a government channel, he worked through a Twitter employee.
Pretty much all the kids I knew growing up gave up comics about the time of puberty, after that they were more into hiding their copies of Playboy from their parents. I did have a pal though that kept up with Mad Magazine into his 20’s. He loved the parody and satire that the mag was known for.
I have a friend who began, a couple of decades ago, to buy me an annual subscription to Mad magazine every year as a Christmas present.
I found it . . . puerile, to say the least. I cannot understand how any one over the age of 13 would find Mad magazine entertaining. And I can remember, back when I was maybe ten years old, how the latest issue was passed around between friends. I have this vague memory that there was some controversy because the students (the boys anyway) at my elementary school wanted the school library to subscribe to Mad magazine & the librarian refused to do it.
I remember thinking those folding back covers were genius! You had a complicated drawing that showed, say, a Bible thumpin’ preacher sermonizing his flock, and when you folded it on the line the drawing showed the preacher drinking and gambling and fooling around with loose women!
Anyways, I finally told my friend not to bother with the annual Mad magazine sub because I never read them. I didn’t tell him that the reason why I never read them was because I considered them stupid and childish.
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When I was growing up, my brother and our friends, didn’t buy the typical superhero comics of the day. As red blooded American boys, our favorite comic was Sgt. Rock and Easy Company and a couple of other war themed comics. We all loved Mad magazine, too. The spoofs and satire of every day stuff, was pretty funny to us. A lot of the humor was found in the little details in the illustrations, like boxes and cans.
Sure glad I never liked comic books as a kid or as an adult.