Much has been said about how Comic Books are reactionary; the only ones who try to change the state of the world are naturally villains and the status quo is defended by the protagonists. I do, however, think that a world that has been fixed by do-gooders and as a result has less strife is a less interesting setting dramatically. Could you make a movie about Mr Fantastic curing cancer or doing geoengineering to mitigate Global Warming? On the other hand, if this current cultural moment is giving us horror movies and dramas via the inventory of comic book characters, maybe we’re going to get a weird biopic, something in the vein of 127 hours, The Aviator, or A Beautiful Mind, but with comic book characters. A kind of “man against society” conflict story where a guy in spandex under a lab coat struggles to make the world a better place while reminiscing about his strained marriage and protean relationship with Dr Doom as they repeatedly come into conflict, each both trying to force the world to meet their conflicting ideals.
John Krasinski is Mr Fantastic as directed by Terrence Malick.
Watchmen continues to be the best superhero comic ever written and one of the very few to recognize the inherent white supremacist reactionary ideology of superheroes. Its criticism still tracks nearly 40 years later. The ultimate fate of the superhero is becoming genocidal for convoluted, narcissistic reasons or to have godlike powers and do nothing.
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Totally unsurprised. And fitting because I hate Reed Richard’s uselessness in the comics.
A wealthy educated white dude who would rather build nanomachines or some shit than do the work to make the world a better place.
Comics exist in a universe where the world actively refuses to get better.
Much has been said about how Comic Books are reactionary; the only ones who try to change the state of the world are naturally villains and the status quo is defended by the protagonists. I do, however, think that a world that has been fixed by do-gooders and as a result has less strife is a less interesting setting dramatically. Could you make a movie about Mr Fantastic curing cancer or doing geoengineering to mitigate Global Warming? On the other hand, if this current cultural moment is giving us horror movies and dramas via the inventory of comic book characters, maybe we’re going to get a weird biopic, something in the vein of 127 hours, The Aviator, or A Beautiful Mind, but with comic book characters. A kind of “man against society” conflict story where a guy in spandex under a lab coat struggles to make the world a better place while reminiscing about his strained marriage and protean relationship with Dr Doom as they repeatedly come into conflict, each both trying to force the world to meet their conflicting ideals.
John Krasinski is Mr Fantastic as directed by Terrence Malick.
Watchmen continues to be the best superhero comic ever written and one of the very few to recognize the inherent white supremacist reactionary ideology of superheroes. Its criticism still tracks nearly 40 years later. The ultimate fate of the superhero is becoming genocidal for convoluted, narcissistic reasons or to have godlike powers and do nothing.