Comments on: Not a dream! Not a hoax! Not an imag­i­nary story! http://blog.voyou.org/2006/09/02/6/ Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sharif http://blog.voyou.org/2006/09/02/6/comment-page-1/#comment-34091 Sharif Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:52:58 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/2006/09/02/6/#comment-34091 There was a bit of blow back from readers as Marvel editorial largely intended people to side with Iron Man's neocon perspective, not Captain America's treason/rebellion. They attempted to capitalize on it through Liberal mouth-foaming crossover issues in Amazing Spider-Man and other titles, however, the narrative arc of the main series did assume instant reader identification with the registration act. This made little sense to me as, for years, Marvel teased a registration act with an implicit negative spin on it. In an interview with Mark Millar, Millar even mentioned that it was so taken for granted that people would side with the pro-registration camp, that he had to add sinister touches to their activities to prevent the reader debate from being so one-sided (I don't think he fully thought through a black character being killed by a Norse, and his corpse chained up and what semiotics that kind of scene entailed). I liked Civil War. Sue's letter to Reed was hilarious. But as a political allegory, it's not the smartest comic I've ever read. For that, see John Smith's The New Statesmen. There was a bit of blow back from readers as Marvel editorial largely intended people to side with Iron Man’s neocon perspective, not Captain America’s treason/rebellion. They attempted to capitalize on it through Liberal mouth-foaming crossover issues in Amazing Spider-Man and other titles, however, the narrative arc of the main series did assume instant reader identification with the registration act. This made little sense to me as, for years, Marvel teased a registration act with an implicit negative spin on it.

In an interview with Mark Millar, Millar even mentioned that it was so taken for granted that people would side with the pro-registration camp, that he had to add sinister touches to their activities to prevent the reader debate from being so one-sided (I don’t think he fully thought through a black character being killed by a Norse, and his corpse chained up and what semiotics that kind of scene entailed).

I liked Civil War. Sue’s letter to Reed was hilarious. But as a political allegory, it’s not the smartest comic I’ve ever read. For that, see John Smith’s The New Statesmen.

]]> By: voyou http://blog.voyou.org/2006/09/02/6/comment-page-1/#comment-9 voyou Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:55:49 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/2006/09/02/6/#comment-9 <p>I'm not sure I agree with you about "swallowing the neo-con line." Although holding to the boring orthodoxy that there are "two sides," the Civil War storyline looks slightly more sympathetic to the resistance than to the government; it certainly doesn't just push a pro-War on Terror line. Actually, it's more in line with the contemporary Democrat position. I don't imagine it will end with revolution, more's the pity, but with some kind of resolution that shows how terrible partisan disagreements, etc., are.</p> I’m not sure I agree with you about “swallowing the neo-con line.” Although holding to the boring orthodoxy that there are “two sides,” the Civil War storyline looks slightly more sympathetic to the resistance than to the government; it certainly doesn’t just push a pro-War on Terror line. Actually, it’s more in line with the contemporary Democrat position. I don’t imagine it will end with revolution, more’s the pity, but with some kind of resolution that shows how terrible partisan disagreements, etc., are.

]]> By: Martin Wisse http://blog.voyou.org/2006/09/02/6/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Martin Wisse Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:35:06 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/2006/09/02/6/#comment-6 What I find dreary about this recent trend towards "realism" in Marvel Comics is both the swallowing of the necocon line (Captain America working on the frontline of the War on Terror and visiting Guantanamo without problems, Iron Man as part of Bush's government) and the realisation of how silly and dated it will look in a few years. What I find dreary about this recent trend towards “realism” in Marvel Comics is both the swallowing of the necocon line (Captain America working on the frontline of the War on Terror and visiting Guantanamo without problems, Iron Man as part of Bush’s government) and the realisation of how silly and dated it will look in a few years.

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