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Re: Violence in comics (was Re: A General Question About Castle World)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:35:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Andrew Krug writes:
> Eric
>
> While I hate to continue this discussion on Comic Books here, for lack of
> anywhere else to go I will. I am well aware that Captain America is
> hardly "non-violent", yet I can also say that in the many years I've been
> reading his comics I can think of maybe 1 or 2 times he has actually killed
> anyone! He usually avoids extreme violence (aka. DEATH) whenever he can and
> usually goes to great pains to make sure he doesn't kill anyone (often hurting
> himself and his cause). I think most kids today (read that teens or whatever
> age comic book buyers usually are) think that is just a little too quaint and
> not very exciting. All the American Flag, Mom, and Apple Pie stuff in the
> Captain Amercia comics just doesn't seem as appealing to kids as some dark
> brooding hero with lots of physcological problems (like Wolverine). That's
> not to say that those comics are bad, just not my cup of tea.
The Frank Miller treatment of Captain America in the Daredevil story arc in
issues 227-233 (I think--I'll double check, if you'd like) creates as
psychologically interesting a character as any of the Wolverine stuff I've
read, if only because Wolvie's under the pressure of the marketplace much more
than good ol' Cap and therefore required to play to his audience.
Another good handling of the Captain was in Marvel Comics Presents #14 or 15-
-somewhat hard to find, but entertaining nonetheless.
> I haven't seen any of the Kingdom Come stuff yet, perhaps I'll have to check
> it out. Thanks for your thoughts.
Read it immediately! In addition to being a pretty cool story, the quality
of the art far exceeds anything else done in comics at the time.
Dave!
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