We've all seen characters who have crossed the line and become like the criminals they fight-- humorless, excessively violent, resorting to torture to gain information. If our own military shouldn't do these things, what makes it good for comic books?
In the latest Spider Man, after Aunt May was shot, Peter breaks a guys wrist to get information about the targeting scope from the rifle. He might as well put on a Rorschach mask. Is this what we really want?
That's one of the reasons I was so sad about Captain America. That kind of hero-- noble, honest, a shining example to us-- this is what we need, more than ever, now.
There are plenty of anti heros we can live 'down' to in real life. How many of you would like to see more heroes that will inspire us to be better persons than we have been, heroes that we will have to work to live UP to...?
2007-04-06
07:43:54
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