chapotraphouse

I think part of the reason this all galls me so much more than 2020 or 2016 is because liberals are MORE haughty and 'distraught' because their perceived better human being lost, while said better human being was in the midst of aggressively aiding an ethnic cleansing.

i don't believe in the basic goodness of my fellow Americans anymore

Where've you been for the last...ever, clown boy? Just this millenium, this country has:

-Butchered Iraq and Afghanistan on the basis of lies for their natural resources and to sate bloodlust from 9/11

-Helped butcher Libya and Syria

-Is actively helping butcher Palestine while continuing to screw over Ukraine to spite Russia

And that's just the wars I can think of offhand, and many of these 'basically good people' were fine with them! We haven't even touched on how inhumanely this country treats the poor, or sexual/ethnic minorities, how immigration (if you're coming through the southern border) is so deranged I'm pretty sure it qualifies as human rights abuse, the endless deceit...this country hasn't been 'good' for as long as I've been alive, and it will only be 'good' when it is 'good and dead'.

Especially when you're in your 60s. Like you wait this long before you start slacking off?

Dude that's awesome. What if superheroes were sad? I get sad sometimes.

The 90s are back baby

have you seen The Boys?

Kind of what I was thinking. I think if I want to be charitable he's not saying he can't write at all, or even that he can't write capeshit, but that he can't write from the optimistic perspective that these larger than life symbols can inspire us to do good and be better versions of ourselves. IE: Alan Moore was right all along (what a shock).

What's sad is that it almost seems like his immediate instinct is that he has to phone in and fake that optimism because that's the limits of the genre he's working in. Personally I hope he does some soul searching and realizes that a cynical turn for his voice is entirely acceptable and not necessarily a decline.

What infuriates me is that you're 100% correct.

There'd be SUCH A COMPELLING HOOK in showing one of these capes that the uncritical audience accepts as a flagbearer of Amerikan Exceptionalism-- especially Captain Amerika, since DC's been getting kinda based with Supes(call the volcel vanguard on me 'cause I'd let Latino Superman send me to meet Eddie) lately-- but like, show me Captain Amerika suddenly crippled by such a daunting lack of faith in his own countrymen that it makes him retire and fuck off to some other(lbr probably third-world) country to "soul search".

From there, he's gotta walk through a frankly-Boschian hellscape of countries that Amerika has ruined and left destitute. This would be the start of a renegade Captain Amerika lending his strength to the Brotherhood of Mutants; but it'd never make it past issue #1 because Marvel would have a diarrheal conniption fit at what I did to King Big Dick of the Avengers.

Honestly, capeshit is in my genre wheelhouse; and when I start drafting shit up for it? There'll be no such thing as 'infinitely-recurring villains', 'cause my capes are putting capitalists down wherever they have the opportunity. Fuck letting Luthor get off with a slap on the wrist, put a laser pulse in the back of his bald-ass head and be done with it.

i usually find superman boring because he's too OP and writers are bad, but at least luthor is usually evil af like real-life rich guys

Writing a stern letter to Superman asking him why hasn't he nuked Washington DC

I would like to see them do an animated Hitman show

But it has to be animated, because I can picture the cgi nightmare that Baytor would be and I hate it

Bruce Wayne definitely did and Victor Stone's definitely mulling over beating him to death for it