tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504598332261057441.post1619535627232044776..comments2024-03-21T19:03:19.133-04:00Comments on Where there had been darkness...: A rebuttal to Chuck Dixon's article in the Wall Street JournalJugularjoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768939120752611597noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504598332261057441.post-80041759078028158502014-06-13T07:13:40.147-04:002014-06-13T07:13:40.147-04:00There have always been some high-profile conservat...<br />There have always been some high-profile conservative creators (Frank Miller, Bill Willingham and Steve Ditko all spring immediately to mind), mainstream superhero comics have tended to skew pretty substantially to the left since the modern age began about 50 years ago. It's not a recent development.<br /><br />It's funny. I was thinking about Dixon's goal in writing the article, and, on the surface, it's obvious. "We've got a new book coming out. Buy it." I think all the bellyaching is, on some level, insincere. Yeah, he feels aggrieved, and wants to vent his spleen, but my impression is that the article exists primarily to sell a product to a sympathetic audience that would otherwise not know of it.<br /><br />Re: Batman. I was talking about his *very* early days, back before they really decided what he was going to be, and he was more like a dark pulp hero like the Shadow than what he is today.Jugularjoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03768939120752611597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504598332261057441.post-58186902992962270132014-06-12T20:27:37.264-04:002014-06-12T20:27:37.264-04:00Superman is clearly a progressive, especially in h...Superman is clearly a progressive, especially in his oldest form. Someone who wants a hero for American conservative thought should probably look elsewhere.<br /><br />I would quibble with the "straight up murdering people" comment. Early Batman used force judiciously.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10029619660070707442noreply@blogger.com