Outside of WW2 what were some of the biggest day political moments in mainnline comics? Cause I feel like this is probably somewhere in the top 5 easily.
Outside of WW2 what were some of the biggest day political moments in mainnline comics?
Outside of WW2 what were some of the biggest day political moments in mainnline comics? Cause I feel like this is probably somewhere in the top 5 easily.
Obama get Spider-Man
There's some real tonal whiplash going from gagging on Obama's dick to declaring the death of democracy over Trump.
This was so fricking stupid. Amazing that you follow up killing a Robin with this schlock.
>Amazing that you follow up killing a Robin with this schlock.
People forget that the whole lead up to killing Jason was also Joker trying to sell a fricking cruise missile and tampering with relief supplies. All hot button political stuff that aged terribly.
People mythologize these old bat comics as amazing works but most of them are full of that corny shit, Batman worked best like a period piece/anachronism like BTAS or the Burton movies. I don't need to see Batman fight the KGB or some shit.
Honest answer? Brumpf. He mindbroke an industry
Yeah, I would say Trump getting elected is up there. Even comics that didn't directly mention Trump would ape some of his campaign rhetoric like "build the wall" or "make ____ great again", except it might be tweaked to fit superhero shit.
That newspaper joke is dogshit. It should be “man bites dog, trump likely to blame.”
Right. Frick. That was so universal I kind of blanked on it.
It's telling how this was once a special anomaly and now it's the norm for comics
lol yep. When a TV program would cover the history of comics, they'd always have segment that covered when comics attempted to cover current events to be taken more seriously as a medium.
The entire last 10 years of media is going to be covered in documentaries in the future as some sort of dark age where shallow Captain Planet-esk storytelling dominated media and how it feels completely soulless and unauthentic as a result.
Captain America and the Falcon used to talk about race a bunch. This was just coming off the actual civil rights movement too so it typically preached for unity and togetherness instead of whatever crap is posted today. Falcon himself was often called an Uncle Tom.
I have to say, I love Falcon's way of dealing with ultimatums.
Magneto, Kingpin, and Dr Doom crying because of 9/11
most new yorkers in the marvel universe shouldn't really care about 9/11.
Their city is full off dangerous superpowered supervillains and it regularly gets attacken by aliens
oh god, kill me
IRL events will always look stupid and fricked up in comics because you have people that can alter reality and are pretty much gods, yet shit like terrorists attacks still occur and have people give these visceral reactions. It just makes the heroes look like a bunch of lazy buttholes and the villains look like they have dementia.
That's how you can tell apart the hacks from the non-hacks.
Doctor Doom currently has the highest kill count of anyone in the Marvel Universe.
> Pic rel
More than galactus?
I think he got Cosmic Powers briefly
I dunno, Saddam Hussein? Like americans literally believed he was the anti-christ.
JFK, like every assassination is a fricking JFK reference. It's always a sniper's bullet, rarely a bomb under the seat or a la Franz Ferdinand.
facts
based joker standing up against zionism and the great satan
I think the diplomat Joker thing is so impossibly idiotic that it kind of loops around to being funny. 1980s equivalent to drawing your enemy as the basedjack guy
Why the frick is joker wearing Arabian clothing as a Persian ambassador
He's dressed like the Iron Sheik
And is only half as bugfrick insane.
The funniest thing about Death of Robin is that Starlin had a number of amazing alternatives in stock like giving Todd AIDS
>the Joker raped Jason Todd, Batman!
>AND gave him AIDS
> AIDS canonically originates from having sex with the Joker in the DC Universe.
Vietnam. The holocaust. I want to say nuking Japan, but that's more Cinemaphile
>I want to say nuking Japan, but that's more Cinemaphile
Bizarrely, this doesn't appear much in the manga.
Didn't they do a whole run with a Bill O'Reilly analog in Thor?
>makes Joker a UN diplomat representing your country
>joker do joker shit and gas the whole UN building killing all ambassadors and diplomats
>Piss off the whole world from USA, Russia, China to freaking north korea and make them declare war on you
this is unbelievably dumb
Frick the UN, death to them all
I don't think so. I think it's just the type of thing that attracts a lot of posts and so it sticks in your mind. You guys have been posting the same image for years.
Excessive reposting used to be considered bad etiquette for a reason.
what the frick is wrong with his chin?