🙄ah, NO… So sorry, but it’s true about you! I see now that you “ liked” this. Forgive me, I’m really trying to understand and fit in so I don’t get the boot from Substack.
DC vs Marvel: growing up reading comic books i the 60s, the mythologies between DC and Marvel were striking in their differences. DC heroes (superheroes) were noble, rational, and--dare I say it--fighting for truth and justice (not really the American way, is it?). Alternatively, the Marvel superheroes were petty, score-keeping jerks where only might makes right. They spent more time fighting each other than existential threats to Mother Earth. It was good vs evil as opposed to flawed vs evil and each other. Myth tends to be a parable on the idealistic person--God-fearin', good, honest, and perhaps too obedient. But for children, it's a good starting point. Those peoples who believed in the their myths never progressed beyond a child's sensibility for life. Today's God-fearin' folks still have their kindergarten religion intact. It's called maturity, in which DC superheroes were naïvely bask, opposed to the narcissism of the Marvel bickersons. But I'm gonna keep my sliver of Kryptonite in my wallet just in case.
The cult is dying well
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You’re one brilliant man Sol and very interesting!
Awww, shucks, Jo-Ann, now you makin' me blush ... ☺️
(You do realize I didn't write this article, right?)
🙄ah, NO… So sorry, but it’s true about you! I see now that you “ liked” this. Forgive me, I’m really trying to understand and fit in so I don’t get the boot from Substack.
DC vs Marvel: growing up reading comic books i the 60s, the mythologies between DC and Marvel were striking in their differences. DC heroes (superheroes) were noble, rational, and--dare I say it--fighting for truth and justice (not really the American way, is it?). Alternatively, the Marvel superheroes were petty, score-keeping jerks where only might makes right. They spent more time fighting each other than existential threats to Mother Earth. It was good vs evil as opposed to flawed vs evil and each other. Myth tends to be a parable on the idealistic person--God-fearin', good, honest, and perhaps too obedient. But for children, it's a good starting point. Those peoples who believed in the their myths never progressed beyond a child's sensibility for life. Today's God-fearin' folks still have their kindergarten religion intact. It's called maturity, in which DC superheroes were naïvely bask, opposed to the narcissism of the Marvel bickersons. But I'm gonna keep my sliver of Kryptonite in my wallet just in case.
Thanks for sharing your fascinating and entertaining perspective!
Coupla typos. My bad... [fingering my Kryptonite]
Me, I'm always careful not to make typso.
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