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Originally Posted by hiredgun
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this fictional development and what light it might shed on our national consciousness. I'm also curious about previous periods of political uncertainty and disillusionment; I wasn't around during the 60's and 70's, but was the spirit of those decades captured in contemporary comics?
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Hmmmmm, I read comics for over 2 decades, but I don't recall comics doing much political stuff in the mainstream comics arena in the 60's and 70's. I do remember a MLK comic that came out in the late 90's and I remember Spiderman's drug issue being a big thing. A few Miller Daredevil comics talked of corrupt polititians, but unless you lived in NYC, you probably did not realize that sometimes the comics were casually mentioning local NYC politics. I grew up in Idaho and did not learn much politics from comics. Mostly I learned hero worship, humor, and some ethics of good & evil from comic books. Then graphic novels came out and Sandman and Preacher and Watchmen all seem more relevant to me ethically and socially, but not really politically. I read a lot about real politics if I am in the mood for it, but comics are mostly for me about humor and suspense and other times gritty gothic plotlines. In college however, I started buying a lot of alternative, kooky, and "personal: comic book runs. Real Life and about half of the Fantagraphic Books titles. I got subscriptions for 2 years, but then I just ran out of space in the closets so I stopped buying comic books. Too this day though, I am a very visual person because of comic books and my abstract and realistic computer art shows a certain action and simple comic book quality that rubbed off on me. Hopefully my 3,000 comics will someday be given to a grand nephew or sold to buy a house, if the prices go up some day. I have no clue what prices are and frankly don't much care I guess....
I do recall a Howard Chaykin's comic book about politics and the lead character was named Flagg or something like that. It was good and I have the first 10 issues, but I can't recall much about it. I have more memories of the secret wars, sandman, hunk going insane, avengers doing wild stuff, and a few other comics that I'd rather not mention. (^:
Civil War seems interesting and once a year I go and buy comics and I will hopefully get the Civil War graphic novel it is out around Christmas.
cheers,
Jonathan