Like many others, I'm repulsed by the plague of violence and death ravaging
our nation and feel frustrated, even helpless, to combat it. I find it
particularly disturbing that the artistic form with which I'm most closely
identified has seemed to turn its back on the virtues upon which it was
built.
Today's comics are possessed by brutality, destruction, depravity,
cynicism, and obscenity. No? Here's a press release I received a few weeks ago:
ENNIS, CONNER, PALIMIOTTI TURN A TRICK!
August 19: Ever wonder what it would be like to sleep with a
superpowered prostitute? Garth Ennis has and he's enlisted Amanda
Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti to flesh out the story in PRO, a 64 page
one-shot coming next summer from Image. Following the announcement on
the "Image All Stars" panel at WizardWorld, Palmiotti told the
SPLASH, "This will probably keep the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
very busy for the next five years. It's the world's first superhero
prostitute and pretty much every comic book character's run in with
her. It's done Garth style so it won't be the actual characters, but
it'll be like mainstream superhero comics with a prostitute thrown in
the mix. It's evil, it's gonna be worse than Hitler's testicles. It's
Garth, which guarantees it's madness. It's Amanda, so it's a woman
drawing this evil stuff, which makes it even more evil. And then it's
me and I usually like trouble anyway." Conner and Palmiotti signed at
the CBLDF table on Saturday afternoon to start building the war
chest.
If this is supposed to be funny, I'm not laughing. Are some of the
most-publicized talents in the field so desperate they've turned to
celebrating evil? Apparently so. They obviously think of themselves as
cultural terrorists and want the world to know they've allied themselves
with evil. They're welcome to it.
Personally, I'm sick of evil, particularly the psychotic, nihilistic
garbage that's pitched as entertainment and has signalled the twilight of
the comics era.
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