Alan Moore unsurprisingly thinks superheroes “can be a precursor to fascism”
Moore’s comments also have deep precedent within Moore’s public statements, which are frequently about how superheroes have screwed up a lot of brains. For example, in 2014, he warned Pádraig Ó Méalóid atTo my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children’s characters at their mid-20th century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of modern existence.
It looks to me very much like a significant section of the public, having given up on attempting to understand the reality they are actually living in, have instead reasoned that they might at least be able to comprehend the sprawling, meaningless, but at-least-still-finite ‘universes’ presented by DC or Marvel Comics.
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