I hesitate to call anything I make "art" but the most popular thing I ever made was probably this ancient comic that got like 30,000 notes on tumblr for some reason
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more recently, probably this dumb comic from 2023 that I threw together in less than an hour thinking "haha everybody agrees that a lot of superhero movies are propaganda right" and it turned out many people are VERY defensive about the most popular and highest grossing franchise in the world
The entire premise of the superhero can be boiled down to “might makes right.” It’s fascist whether the “hero” works for the government, or is a vigilante. You can’t run a democracy if you believe people who have power don’t have to follow the same rules as everyone else.
I think there's more nuance than that... I view superheroes as a kind of power fantasy. Superman for example was created because "what if there was a really strong guy who could punch all the nazis," even if that wasn't the authors explicit intention there is an implied desire for protection I think
I think Killer7's got my favorite (perhaps only?) riff on modern superhero media as transparent government propaganda. This was 2005, so it was even somewhat ahead of The Dark Knight and all that.
Wasn't there a Spiderman comic where he inconvenienced some cops that were giving a guy a ticket by shooting webs at their car and sticking it high up on a building or something?
Remember Spider-Man homecoming where the plot was “it’s okay to have sole power over a fleet of drones that can kill anything you want any time and anywhere you want as long as you’re a Good Guy and not a Bad Guy” because that was a wild moral.
Yeah, Homecoming is "We side with Tony Stark absolutely fucking over some blue collar workers because they became super criminals and arms dealers". It barely even considers that maybe it's Tony's fault.
Although it does correctly portray small business owners as evil and insane.
God I haven't seen this movie since seeing it in theaters during my MCU phase, but I'm remembering how Chris Evans delivered the line, "...Tony, you CHOSE to do that."
Mark Millar is a goat-licking proto-fascist edgelord who gets high on his own farts and I don't care who knows
His Authority run was trash, and the fact that garbage like Wanted (a glorified DC Elseworlds comic) and Kick-Ass got movie adaptations is a sign of terminal and dooming societal rot
I prefer the sony spidermans. Even the bad ones. At least it was still true to spiderman. It wasn't "hi I'm peter parker, superpowered intern to one of the wealthiest men on the planet. He's my new daddy. My biggest priority is defending his legacy"
disney has put a bad taste in my mouth with that
Andrew Garfield's spiderman gets dunked on, but that dude was fun in costume and the movies are a laugh riot. They're bad in that they're funny when they're bad, and there's some genuinely good moments where the cast is just having a good time.
Flawed and goofy over status quo every time.
Wow your argument is making an uncomfortable amount of sense, time to have you burn down an orphanage out of the blue just to make sure the audience remembers who the bad guy is.
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Although it does correctly portray small business owners as evil and insane.
His Authority run was trash, and the fact that garbage like Wanted (a glorified DC Elseworlds comic) and Kick-Ass got movie adaptations is a sign of terminal and dooming societal rot
disney has put a bad taste in my mouth with that
Flawed and goofy over status quo every time.
Far From Home had him being kind of a stand-in for Uncle Ben and that’s completely undermined now one would hope
Marvel's current "Ultimates" series is all about tearing down the government.
Cowardly ass game.