Citizen no more Options

[Cary]

http://comicrelated.com/blog.php#american-way-no-more

So I read that yesterday and the more I think about it the more it pisses me off. You can take all your sweet little PC talk about how the world is so much smaller these days and shove it. Superman has always fought for truth justice and the AMERICAN way. That's who he is. If he had fallen to Earth in Russia things might be different, but he didn't. So now they strip yet another piece of the character away, in what I can only view as a marketing scheme. They should have left him dead after Doomsday. This...is a travesty. DC comics should be ashamed.

[Dave Arhar]

It's definitely a publicity stunt, but I think it's of part of a series of disturbing trends.

Personally, I'm really sick of comic book writers politicizing iconic characters just to shove them into the small mindedness of their own personal world view. I think it's dishonest to their craft, and dishonorable to the art.

I remember very clearly all the insane pro-American, September 11th nationalistic fervor our country once experienced. The American flags on comics, magazines, and right next to the logo on every other cable network. The angry contempt for anyone who spoke out against war, or the policies of the incumbent administration, despite the opinions of the rest of the human race. Where were all the free thinking citizens of the world then? They certainly weren't writing or editing mainstream comics. The comic companies all capitalized on our fear every step of the way to let us know our heroes were there for us in our time of need. And that they were American.

Now that the winds have shifted yet again, they're right there, lapping it up, and regurgitating the global village crap back to us. Breaking no new ground, taking no real stand, never going against the grain, with no real views or beliefs. That's not art, it's plain cowardice.

Clearly they have an agenda, and if you don't agree with it, you're ONE OF THEM. If Superman denounced his American citizenship because of a specific political issue, that would be wrong, but it would show some real balls. DC couldn't skirt the issue, and would have to take a controversial stand on something tangible. But to have Superman cast off his citizenship based on perception alone? Gutless.