Now I'm a big anti-fan of Frank Miller, even before his laudable new work.
Whilst The Watchmen attempts to show black and white, Miller makes all heroes invulnerable and all women into whores.
Similar reasoning behind not liking Marshall Law and those people who say Wrestling is fake.
Let's get one thing straight : Four Colour Heroes and Wrestlers are Showmen, Pantomime and Carnivale rolled into one. Whilst it's easy to make jokes about the Adolescent Peter Parker's "web-fluid" and Superman having sex with Lois Lane; it detracts from the basic idea.
These guys are Heroes. They don't have to be normal; and a lot of the stuff is choreographed. This doesn't mean that they're fake, just that they're roleplaying.
Sometime in the late 80's, we lost our faith in heroes; and we've been scrambling to get it back from people like Britney, J.F.K, Princess Di and even, perhaps, Yahtzee.
(Boy he's gonna hate me for that comment)
There seems to be a thread of hatred not towards books as much as trying to improve yourself. Being the best you can be.
Granted, none of us can benchpress a car (unless it's one of those Dinky ones), but in our own way, we're all heroes of a sort. The guy who packs your bags at the supermarket...He's gonna be getting paid a naff wage and is gonna be terminally bored, but he's providing a service that no-one ever thanks him for.
(Promise to get off the soapbox in a moment)
If Khell_Sennet can get someone to read Heinlen and improve themselves, is he held as a hero or passed off as a fanboy? If Yan-Yan can get someone to try poetry, isn't that a worthy cause to fight for? You're improving someone's life.
(Sorry for namedropping you two, but you were above me)
What, I think, we lost in the 80's was the ability to be proud of other's achievements. Look at David Beckham or Sylvester Stallone or that one teacher in school that really made you think. But if you go up to them and say "Thank you.", ----->FANBOI!!!!
Tomorrow, thank someone who helped you; and help someone, even if they don't. Let's start to retake Heroes, Literacy, Poetry, Games and all the other positive things back from the Grouches.
Otherwise, we'll have nothing but Government sanctioned plastic people to look up to the day after. And everything else will be airbrushed.
Perhaps next time you see Batman, you'll think "How cool!" rather than "But that was wrong, he did this in issue #314". Would be nice.
[I really don't know where that came from, but hey.]
Whilst The Watchmen attempts to show black and white, Miller makes all heroes invulnerable and all women into whores.
Similar reasoning behind not liking Marshall Law and those people who say Wrestling is fake.
Let's get one thing straight : Four Colour Heroes and Wrestlers are Showmen, Pantomime and Carnivale rolled into one. Whilst it's easy to make jokes about the Adolescent Peter Parker's "web-fluid" and Superman having sex with Lois Lane; it detracts from the basic idea.
These guys are Heroes. They don't have to be normal; and a lot of the stuff is choreographed. This doesn't mean that they're fake, just that they're roleplaying.
Sometime in the late 80's, we lost our faith in heroes; and we've been scrambling to get it back from people like Britney, J.F.K, Princess Di and even, perhaps, Yahtzee.
(Boy he's gonna hate me for that comment)
There seems to be a thread of hatred not towards books as much as trying to improve yourself. Being the best you can be.
Granted, none of us can benchpress a car (unless it's one of those Dinky ones), but in our own way, we're all heroes of a sort. The guy who packs your bags at the supermarket...He's gonna be getting paid a naff wage and is gonna be terminally bored, but he's providing a service that no-one ever thanks him for.
(Promise to get off the soapbox in a moment)
If Khell_Sennet can get someone to read Heinlen and improve themselves, is he held as a hero or passed off as a fanboy? If Yan-Yan can get someone to try poetry, isn't that a worthy cause to fight for? You're improving someone's life.
(Sorry for namedropping you two, but you were above me)
What, I think, we lost in the 80's was the ability to be proud of other's achievements. Look at David Beckham or Sylvester Stallone or that one teacher in school that really made you think. But if you go up to them and say "Thank you.", ----->FANBOI!!!!
Tomorrow, thank someone who helped you; and help someone, even if they don't. Let's start to retake Heroes, Literacy, Poetry, Games and all the other positive things back from the Grouches.
Otherwise, we'll have nothing but Government sanctioned plastic people to look up to the day after. And everything else will be airbrushed.
Perhaps next time you see Batman, you'll think "How cool!" rather than "But that was wrong, he did this in issue #314". Would be nice.
[I really don't know where that came from, but hey.]
