With some new toys to play with (microphone, video capture card) I didn’t have time to write anything. Lucky foe me, just before post time, an article on a different site interesting me.
You may have noticed a new voice in the comments section, Nate Winchester, who also runs the Hunting Muses blog here at WordPress. Well, he just contributed a guest post at The Colossus Of Rhodey discussing the inherent flaw of DC’s The Movement, and it’s not based on the comic’s political position but how it and comics like Decisions (a comic that showed DC’s characters’ political allegiance) mess with suspension of disbelief.
I do love these article that show how you can bring too much “real world” into a superhero fantasy when you try to keep the world the same when guys who shoot fire from their ears or can command animals (so long as they have rabies and don’t think I’m the first one to even consider that concept) exist. I’m avoiding The Movement and it’s counterpart The Green Team because I don’t care about politics when I read a comic. I’m looking for an escape and the only reason I picked up the Rush Limbaugh comic was to review it and see if it was unbiased. (It was.) I don’t even have a problem with making a comic that uses superheroes as an allegory for political sides beyond how my point of view is treated. But setting it in the (current) main DCU is a bad idea and will just lead to bad things down the road.
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