Freepers on comic books

Lots of right wingers ranting about Watchmen. But the conversation has ranged to all sorts of geeky afield:

Dead Corpse opines on Watchmen:

Moore's heroes and heroines are flawed creatures. Only one of them actually has a "super-natural" power at all and one of his issues is the aforementioned incremental loss of his humanity.

They all have one thing in common: THEY ACT WHEN NO ONE ELSE WILL.

This sense of self-ownership and taking effective steps against real evil and villainy is part of what is missing in todays American spirit.

I'm sure Dead Corpse also dresses in costumes to fight crime. BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL.

Soothesayer thinks we need to embrace the darkness of the 1980s comics made into modern movies.

I don’t even want to watch cheery movies anymore. I find cheery movies to be even more depressing than the depressing ones. Just the apparent fact that everything in reality is getting shot to hell.

Wings-n-Wind disagrees. Apparently 1980s comics made into modern movies are the product of Satan:

JMHO... The Darkness will only get "more dark"--

The Prince of Darkness is "on-task" in these days...

Powers and beings that certainly exist...
And are capable of exerting extaordinary influence from the invisible spiritual realm...
...Are being dreamed about, and seen in the imaginations of these "artists"...

ecomcon isn't sure if a comic book move is art:

I’m just saying most “art” is not art, but something else. Usually it’s propaganda. It’s easy to get all dark and foreboding like and inflict intense emotions on people because that is the natural man’s “human condition”. It is far more difficult to create a thing of beauty that emotes without the chain gun of decay and death.

Beyond Watchmen, The Louiswu suggests some lighter faire: The Passion of the Christ.

The Passion is THE story of the defeat of death and everlasting life, what could possibly make someone feel any better than that?

Yay! Jesus Chainsaw Massacre! A happy tale for the whole family!

Mojave also has a recommendation:

You might like Miller's The Dark Knight Returns comic in which Batman uses a combination of chemical and mechanical means to precisely match Superman's strength and then beats the hell out of him for being such a tool.

Well, I guess I do agree about Superman being a tool. Bipartisanship!