tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568009540291131956.post3591397643163958715..comments2024-01-17T22:32:54.188-08:00Comments on Comics Make Me Happy!: The superhero attractionLissBirdshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17059648604602469375noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568009540291131956.post-63357374801011763642011-03-11T12:03:08.781-08:002011-03-11T12:03:08.781-08:00The Iliad and the Odyssey are larger than life adv...The Iliad and the Odyssey are larger than life adventure stories with larger than life heroes and villains. Likewise for the King Arthur legends, and Shakespeare. James Fenimore Cooper made Natty Bumppo a superhero basically. <br /><br />All I know is that a certain degree of epic-ness seems to appeal to an awful lot of people. It does divert us from our mundane every day lives, and there is the promise that out there somewhere, someone is fighting the good fight...and winning.SallyPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592635194271250605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568009540291131956.post-47868875442575314052011-03-11T04:48:41.905-08:002011-03-11T04:48:41.905-08:00Really thoughtful post!
For really long, I though...Really thoughtful post!<br /><br />For really long, I thought it was something specific to the US (note: I live in Europe!), but when I see characters like Spirou and Lucky Luke in Franco-belgium comics or Mazinger and Gatchaman in Japanese work, it's kinda an international feeling.<br />The same way movies like King Kong or Godzilla keep being remade/followed. We love these pup-culture icons and each new generation want to also experience the discovery of new tales with these characters.<br /><br />Like greek or roman mythological figures of the past, they represent classic figures, inspiration and aspiration to the dreamers in all of us~Eyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05350758607787528425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568009540291131956.post-26283421349280277642011-03-10T21:54:30.039-08:002011-03-10T21:54:30.039-08:00I fell in love with super-heroes who represented c...I fell in love with super-heroes who represented concepts and ideals in a very literal and unique way. Captain America was everything I loved about my country as a child, and is still everything I wish the United States would be. Vanth Dreadstar was the charismatic rebel taking on the oppressive forces of conformity and dogma. Adam Warlock was the inherent flaw of manufactured perfection fractured into a megalomania that threatened to swallow the entire universe.<br /><br />I'm not as concerned with heroism as you are, but I adore comic books as a dynamic and shamelessly entertaining means to address subjects otherwise considered too dry or "deep." It's so unintentionally subversive and beautiful in its stupid gutter mentality and simple answers applied to existential stargazing.Diabolu Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.com