So I load up my beautiful and streamlined MSN page to check emails and what do I see?
Gasp!!! The man of steel, aka Superman, is renouncing his US Citizenship in the pages
of DC Comics. I ask you good folks. Are you as sick of this politicizing as I am?
When did politics spread into the fabric of pure and unbridled escapism?
When did the innocence of comic books become fodder for the political agenda
of a company like DC Comics? I fear what's next. Perhaps we'll see Batman
waxing poetic in a future issue about the war that wouldn't end
or the lingering effects of 9-11.
My point? This is not Batman's place or Superman's place to tell us what's wrong
with the world. These are two legendary characters whose goal is escapism,
plain and simple. If I want obviously biased coverage of our government and
where it's headed, I can seek out the manipulative and self serving blowholes at NPR.
Heck, I know that the New York Times will certainly give me plenty of their patented
liberal rhetoric.
These days, the New York Times makes one think of the great Chicken Little himself.
For better or for worse, THESE are the institutions that serve up the political side of things;
not DC Comics for goodness sake. There's a lesson to be learned here and my hope is
that DC Comics will not follow the lead of Hollywood and their painfully obsessive
liberal agenda. Hollywood is still trying to mix politics into a medium that simply
wasn't built for it. You pay top dollars at the Cineplex to be entertained, not to have
Liberal Hollywood give you a referendum on Obama Care. Hollywood keeps cranking
out political films and time after time they open to low attendance and thousands
upon thousands of empty seats nationwide. America won't be force fed politics.
Movie goers will NOT be forced fed politics when the state of our world demands
outlets in which to escape the reality of a sometimes scary world. DC Comics,
don't be like Hollywood. Don't ignore the cries of your audience.
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