Re: [BNW] Four Colored Heroes in BNW

["Cameron Twine" <cjtwine50@hotmail.com>]

> > > Do they have a place or are they a relic of an earlier,
> > > more naive age?
> > They're a relic. Sure people might say they really want them back and
> > remember the "good old days" >

While I agree that most of the old comics that we all remember are quite 
camp and think how naive, you must remember that these highly sanitised 
versions came out after the American Comic Code Authority reared its 
repressive head. For the most part, most of the heros started out with a 
solid basis in pulp fiction style heroics, more like mickey spillane's Mike 
Hammer than the mickey mouse style we all came to know and groove too.

If you want an accurate story involving the heros of the past, try DC's 
Golden Age miniseries, written by the uber talented James Robinson. It's 
also available in collection form, and I cannot reccomend it enough for 
anyone who a) wants to get an idea for one hell of a cool Glory Days 
scenario and b) a deeper understanding into what heros would've been really 
like in the early days.

> > More importantly what does the popularity of darker "anti-heroes" > >  
>say about our societies in the westernized world?

I agree that it shows a trend towards the more realistic, but still, how 
could a kid today look at the punisher and go, "Wow!" like when some of us 
did when you saw spidey swing into action or supes zip through the sky ?

>Personaly, I think that people can't accept the concept of a "hero".
>Americans ultimately hate anyone who appears to be better then them.

Not necessarily. We have it in australia as well, it's called the tall poppy 
syndrome here, in fact you'd find it in most countries.

>all the tabliod newspapers, thier whole purpose is to destory the >image 
>ofcelebrity. Readers want nothing more than to have proof, that >this 
>object of thier envy is not better than them.

Well, we still buy them don't we ? I think its less a need to destroy, and 
more a desire to understand, and try and figure out what makes these people 
different enough to get all this attention. And then, there is the fact that 
some of them are awful gosh darn nice to look at. ;)

Cheers,

Cameron Twine.



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