Comrade Amerika

surely someone can photoshop Obama into the Red skull. its just colour. the rest is already done

There is reason I have always been a DC guy.

Yeah, almost all the guys in the comic industry are liberals. You guys should see the issues where the X-Men move to San Francisco. They manage to turn it into a Prop 8 allegory. Of course the "conservatives" in this allegory are violent rioters.

Chuck Dixon's a pretty good guy, though. He once took an interviewer to task for referring to WW2 as "...our last good war." He snapped back that he thought "our wars against Communism" were good wars too. Check out "Storming Paradise." It's a historical "What If?" supposing we had to invade Japan in WW2.

I know this is off topic and I apologize. I was wondering if any other SDA readers had seen this article and what they make of it - I had not heard anything in the MSM - not that I expect to, but I thought I would have heard something about it on this site. Rumour - taken out of context perhaps, hope it's not true.

Canadian Prime Minister Delivers Global Governance Plan

"During the January 2010 World Economic Summit in Davos Switzerland Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the current Chairman of the G-20, presented the upcoming agenda for the G-20 and G-8 meetings to be held in Ontario in June. Many were shocked to hear this Conservative leader declare that “we also know markets need governance. For the new global economy, the G-20 is what we have.” Harper went on to speak as an avowed Keynesian committed to a one world global economy, creating a world “we have been trying to build since 1945”.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19829

> surely someone can photoshop Obama
> into the Red skull.

They'll also have to photoshop in the teleprompter. Sure, Red Skull was evil, but he was an articulate evil that didn't need speechwriters. Bet he could even pronounce corpsman properly.

Comics Books Dirty Little Secret: They Don't Make (Much) Money at Whiskey's Place.

"Both Marvel and DC Comics don't really expect to make any money at all with Comic Book Publishing (and Marvel's SEC filings confirm that). DC seems to publish a few titles like Wonder Woman just to keep the rights (which would otherwise revert back to the estate of the creator).

Thus it's a playground for PC and Multiculturalists, the same way "Independent" movies like "TransAmerica" (about transvestites) are a playground for the same thing. No one expects to make any money, just show how "cool" one is. It's just status-displays among a hothouse of "creative" people playing with other people's money."

The whole article's worth reading.

Fighting for Truth, Justice and the American way? More like what is truth, (Pilot) social justice and apologize for the American way.

If this somehow ruins the upcoming Avengers movie, I shall be quite put out:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/

I suppose it doesn't matter TOO much. After all, Superman is on OUR side:

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10206

Wolverine, as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_(comics)

Didn’t you know that joining a “tea party” in the US is subversive behaviour?

South Carolina declared last year that subversives (anyone wanting to speak out against the government) must now register for a $5.00 fee – or face up to $25,000 in fines and up to 10 years in jail.

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/south-carolinas-subversive-activities-registration-act-force/

“By "subversive organization," the law means "every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States [or] of this State."”

Captain America? Naw just a hopen and a changen!

I always believed that these super heroes in their colorful tights were just a bunch of left wing fagots anyway.

It's fantasy and that is what the left is all about.

I am not surprised.

Abe>

If you want to see the raw mental disorder of left wing super hero fantasy, check out the movie "Watchmen".

Now there's a trippy view of the leftist ideals of power through fantasy.

Yup gotta go after those middle class fascists.
I used to go out with a girl who exercised every day with the jingle:We must we must increase the bust.
Obama means it another way.
The middle class are the enemy. Muslims our superiors. The more America breaks the better to him & his friends.
Is it surprising in this atmosphere, that even comics have to be made with the Obama Imprimatur of reality?
JMO

"If you want to see the raw mental disorder of left wing super hero fantasy, check out the movie "Watchmen". Knight 99 truer words have never been spoken.That movie offended me to no end.

Hi! I'm a comic book fan (i.e. "raving geek") and also a conservative libertarian.

First off, it's really not all that surprising that comic book industry insiders hate right-wingers; they've never forgotten what Frederic Wertham did to the industry, and they've conflated him with McCarthy despite the fact that the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was pretty evenly bipartisan.

It's not really a dirty little secret that comic books don't make money; both DC and Marvel have been money-losers for about a decade, propped up only by their big movie studio masters (Warner for DC, Sony/Fox for Marvel). And y'all know Disney just bought Marvel, right? Their stated reason was to use it as an idea factory to generate the next crop of big superhero movie blockbusters, even if it takes decades. They don't care, they consider Marvel an R&D expense. In short, nobody - least of all the publishers - cares one whit if superhero comics make money on their own at all.

As for Superman, no, he's not Canadian; Joe Shuster was, but he moved to the US when he was 10, and it was Joel Siegel who conceived of the Superman character as we currently know it. The extent of the "Canadian-ness" of the Superman mythos is that the Daily Planet was named after the Toronto Star, and the Metropolis skyline was based on the Toronto skyline. That's it. It's a bit like saying the X-Men are Canadian because parts of X-2 were filmed in Vancouver.

As for Watchmen - keep in mind that Alan Moore has a deep-seated hatred for the entire concept of superhero comics, and his work reflects that.

Perhaps I am not really surprised....
comics are no longer kid stuff....

An associate happened upon something and without warning me, referred me to it....for my assessment hopefully.

It's a dark, dark place on the web...

Google Dolcett.......

I take pride in not being prudish or judgemental but this stuff really goes over the line IMHO.

Yes, Disney bought Marvel last September. Whiskey's Place covered the likely motives and ramifications in "Disney Buys Marvel: Superheros and Where the Boys Aren't"

"Disney, desperate for growth in entertainment, has made a deal with $4 billion to buy Marvel Entertainment ... Disney is driven by one single factor: tween girls are not enough. Not enough, anyway, to keep the cash flow going for Disney at a time when cash-strapped parents are thinking twice about $100 Hannah Montana concert tickets, and efforts to push tween stars Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez have flopped. DVD sales are down, dramatically, and piracy, among other factors, threatens to seriously impact Disney's long term cash flow."

Lots more at the link.

RE: ?24u&i at February 9, 2010 8:25 PM

Enlightened sovereignty,

The PM (Harper) needs to explain his use of that term.....if he said it...

I used to collect Marvel comics. Stopped around 1993. There just didn't seem to be much point anymore, the stories just kept getting worse, the art degenerating into blood splashes. Nothing I've seen from Marvel over the last few years has changed my mind, its still crap.

Captain America bashing Tea Party types? Yeah, no surprise there. That's why I quit buying comics.

Media weenies reading this, wake the hell up dudes. We are not buying your crap.

recasting the Shining , like Obama recasts hope and changes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXL8lMIbgn8&feature=rec-r2-2r-6-HM

Don't the Democrats remember that they taught us that dissent was the most honest form of patriotism?

But now they're trying to convince us that Americans LOVE to pay their taxes . . . surprisingly, not Democrats

Actually, the X-Men are more Canadian. Wolverine is from Canada

Cappy was always a propaganda tool - now he works for Washington Neo-Marxists and hunts down patriots. Marvel always was too preachy in it's approach, except for the punisher most of these lee creations are moral narcissists.

Stick with DC-Vertigo or Dark Horse