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Are comics (dc marvel) conservative? Like are superheroes inherently a right wing idea? Where does that come from? (bleedingcool.com)

submitted 1 year ago by GlueBear@hexbear.net to c/comics@hexbear.net

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I was looking into some of the older batman comics and I wanted to know more about the personal politics of the writers. Frank miller, moore, etc, and needless to say I didn't really find much in that regard.

I posted an article above; just as an example to what kind of info I could find about that subject. I'm not satisfied.

Like are superheroes just a right wing ideal? That issues in the world need (a few) very powerful people in order to solve instead of just systematically solving them?

Or is that the superheroes we do have are made by people with rightwing leanings?

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[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im not deep into Marvel lore but I understood the X-Men for example as a progressive force. Like they are fighting for change and a better world. Mind you im not that into their comics that was just my surface level reading of them.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

X-Men had one foot in either world.

At it's best, it was a show about people struggling with the bigotries aimed at their conditions and arguing the best path forward. Characters confronting disease, debating the causes and responses to racism, exploring their sexuality, uncovering the horrors of the police state and the two faced nature of liberal responses to poverty and crime. It's often written for babies, but it's ultimately good politics.

At it's worst, it was just xenophobic copaganda with Wolverine shouting "Don't worry we're some of the good ones!" while he punches Russo-China The Evil Communist Super Fifth Columnist in the genitals for hitting those African migrants with a literacy ray.

It really just depends who was writing at any given momoment. Are we having Magento doing Mutant Stalinism On One Asteroid while Cyclopes struggles to pay for prescription lenses on a student budget? Or is Ice Man doing fat jokes at the Blob for six pages?