i don’t believe in the basic goodness of my fellow Americans anymore
I think part of the reason this all galls me so much more than 2020 or 2016 is because liberals are MORE haughty and ‘distraught’ because their perceived better human being lost, while said better human being was in the midst of aggressively aiding an ethnic cleansing.
i don’t believe in the basic goodness of my fellow Americans anymore
Where’ve you been for the last…ever, clown boy? Just this millenium, this country has:
-Butchered Iraq and Afghanistan on the basis of lies for their natural resources and to sate bloodlust from 9/11
-Helped butcher Libya and Syria
-Is actively helping butcher Palestine while continuing to screw over Ukraine to spite Russia
And that’s just the wars I can think of offhand, and many of these ‘basically good people’ were fine with them! We haven’t even touched on how inhumanely this country treats the poor, or sexual/ethnic minorities, how immigration (if you’re coming through the southern border) is so deranged I’m pretty sure it qualifies as human rights abuse, the endless deceit…this country hasn’t been ‘good’ for as long as I’ve been alive, and it will only be ‘good’ when it is ‘good and dead’.
like, no offense mark, but nobody in their right mind gives a shit about the quality of your work.
this is like a senior food engineer with a masters in endocrinology for McDonald’s corporate announcing that they’re going to really start phoning it in on the new McRib reboot.
like buddy, if you weren’t already checked out, you fucked up.
Someone should write superheroes but like super edgy and FUCKED UP because the world is so fucked up. That would be so COOL I would see those movies. I have so many ideas in my head for this I wish the world was ready for it.
So, you’ll stop making fascist propaganda cause the fascist you don’t like won?
Promise?
Honestly i would hope that any artist of any type would take that feeling and incorporate it in their work in some capacity. I don’t believe that all art needs to come from tragedy or something terrible, but if one is a writer, one should be able to write when things aren’t great.
I think this shows a lack of conviction in one’s form of expression. I do think being bummed out about the political condition is a valid response, but it seems kind of whack to me too.
Kind of what I was thinking. I think if I want to be charitable he’s not saying he can’t write at all, or even that he can’t write capeshit, but that he can’t write from the optimistic perspective that these larger than life symbols can inspire us to do good and be better versions of ourselves. IE: Alan Moore was right all along (what a shock).
What’s sad is that it almost seems like his immediate instinct is that he has to phone in and fake that optimism because that’s the limits of the genre he’s working in. Personally I hope he does some soul searching and realizes that a cynical turn for his voice is entirely acceptable and not necessarily a decline.
IE: Alan Moore was right all along (what a shock).
people need to stop making Gandalf coded wizards and make Moore coded wizards
What’s sad is that it almost seems like his immediate instinct is that he has to phone in and fake that optimism because that’s the limits of the genre he’s working in. Personally I hope he does some soul searching and realizes that a cynical turn for his voice is entirely acceptable and not necessarily a decline.
Agreed. I’m not pro-being cynical, but I am pro-whatever voice is. If your voice is cynical, then be cynical, but be authentically so. Be authentic and execute on the authenticity well.
but that he can’t write from the optimistic perspective that these larger than life symbols can inspire us to do good and be better versions of ourselves.
IDK why he’d do that, couldn’t he just write new stories where the superheros are hated by a largely bigoted and uncaring society?
What infuriates me is that you’re 100% correct.
There’d be SUCH A COMPELLING HOOK in showing one of these capes that the uncritical audience accepts as a flagbearer of Amerikan Exceptionalism-- especially Captain Amerika, since DC’s been getting kinda based with Supes(call the volcel vanguard on me 'cause I’d let Latino Superman send me to meet Eddie) lately-- but like, show me Captain Amerika suddenly crippled by such a daunting lack of faith in his own countrymen that it makes him retire and fuck off to some other(lbr probably third-world) country to “soul search”.
From there, he’s gotta walk through a frankly-Boschian hellscape of countries that Amerika has ruined and left destitute. This would be the start of a renegade Captain Amerika lending his strength to the Brotherhood of Mutants; but it’d never make it past issue #1 because Marvel would have a diarrheal conniption fit at what I did to King Big Dick of the Avengers.
Exactly. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the dude is bummed out pretty major. We are all not feeling super jazzed about the future, but that’s not excuse to just say “This thing that has defined my artistic expression/professional experience is now bad”. It’s kinda of a cop out to me. Again, I feel for him, I feel for anyone who does artsy stuff right now, but yeah it’s a bit lame to just say “No more cause America voted bad”.
