Comments on: Superheroes: A Cultural Catastrophe?

By: Synthetase

Synthetase — Fri, 09 May 2014 04:34:37 +0000

Agreed. That Tony Stark would rather spend his billions on a mech suit than to actually tackle the root causes of crime speaks more of him wanting to help his own ego than anyone else. All the silliness of the caped cruisaders occupying the real modern world is sent up beautifully in the Venture Brothers TV series.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Thu, 08 May 2014 20:53:09 +0000

You took your time…

By: Comic Book Guy

Comic Book Guy — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:02:07 +0000

Worst. Blog. Ever.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:59:13 +0000

Well I think it is explained in the Champions (later Heros) rule book.

You need the mundane secret identity to help pay for your superpowers.
You don’t get as many points for the Public Identity, and it without one you can’t get the big discount for “only works in Hero Identity”.

On a slightly more serious note, and only slightly, many years ago the whole absurdity was addressed in the She-Hulk comic. The side-kick was desperate for the job as her own comic finished decades ago and the power “immunity to ageing” only works while your comic is in publication. Likewise the heroine was asked why her clothing was never completely ripped no matter how serious the fight. The answer was a small label sewn in the back or her underclothes reading “Protected by the American Comic Code”.

These things just are not supposed to be taken seriously!

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:22:46 +0000

I await the imminent arrival of Comic Store Guy from The Simpsons with trepidation.

By: Serdar

Serdar — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:12:25 +0000

I suspect a bunch of far more fervent comics fans are going to chime in any second and say that most all your points were addressed in [insert issue and panel citation here], or [insert name of indie comics title here]. Moore’s own “Watchmen” was its critique of that sort of thing.

I’ll probably have more to say about this later.