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Are comics (dc marvel) conservative? Like are superheroes inherently a right wing idea? Where does that come from? (bleedingcool.com)

submitted 2 years ago by GlueBear@hexbear.net to c/comics@hexbear.net

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I was looking into some of the older batman comics and I wanted to know more about the personal politics of the writers. Frank miller, moore, etc, and needless to say I didn't really find much in that regard.

I posted an article above; just as an example to what kind of info I could find about that subject. I'm not satisfied.

Like are superheroes just a right wing ideal? That issues in the world need (a few) very powerful people in order to solve instead of just systematically solving them?

Or is that the superheroes we do have are made by people with rightwing leanings?

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[–] trudge@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Are comics inherently conservative? No. Are they forced to be conservative in its current incarnation? Yes.

By having a shared universe between heroes, comics running in perpetuity, and the setting being an alternative version of current earth, superheroes are forced to defend the status quo without introducing much change. If not, the framework wouldn't work when the same characters are used by dozens of different writers at the same time.