Review: Weird Love #2- The past is not as weird as today

Writers and artists: Numerous
Publisher: IDW Comics
Released: 2nd July 2014


This book is a re-print of old ‘romance’ tales from 1950’s American comics, with a targeted audience of young girls, dreaming of romance and marrying a rich, successful, popular and handsome young man. I don’t see this as something to laugh at by the way. I know that most feminised liberal twit young readers will read these books as horribly sexist, but what’s wrong with young girls dreaming about marrying a successful man who loves them? I don’t see anything wrong with that, unless of course you are a liberal idiot who doesn’t want anybody to be happy, which, come to think of it, is kind of my point really about the innate idiocy at the heart of feminist liberal ideology.

Of course a lot of the underlying assumptions and portrayals of male/female relationships are going to be dated now that the Rockefeller funded mind control of modern education has warped generations of minds, but I’ll review this book as something of it’s time, aimed at young girls, and at least trying to give them a good sense of morals, something that’s lacking in modern comics where all men and women blur into an indistinguishable mesh of sexless human beings, all competing for the same goals and all acting like they don’t know what it means to be either a man or a woman. These comics might be a little ‘weird’ but that’s only because we don’t know who we are anymore.

The front cover is very suggestive, with an overly painted young women pointing at her lips whilst looking at some sparkly jewellery. The words coming out of her lips are undeniable risqué, ‘And just what must I do to get those?’ she asks. This tone however is not reflected in the actual stories inside the book. It’s just one of those covers that comic books used to do so well, where you are teased into buying the book by a slightly deceptive cover that promises far more than the actual stories deliver. Some people might feel slightly conned by that, but if you’ve ever read any comics you can’t pretend to be surprised. You know the score with front covers. They are the honey trap, designed to ensnare the reader, and this one does that very well.

The first story is probably the most salacious of the tales, in that it is the story of a prostitute, told with her own words. This could have been pretty scandalous, and controversial, but the writer makes it very clear that the prostitute is the victim of this story, and that she’s a good person who has good morals, and is just doing the job because she’s desperate for the money to further her education and live a good, morally upstanding life as a honest tax slave like the rest of us. Plus, she just escorts the men, she doesn’t have sex with them, so she’s a good person and she always escapes the evil men at the end of the dates with her morals intact.

The story concludes with the girl marrying the perfect embodiment of corporate morality, a Policeman who had been investigating the morally dubious operation that she had been a part of. No blame is put upon the woman, even though she freely chose to be a prostitute, and the story ends up with her being safely taken back into society by one of their corporate enforcers. Modern readers will laugh at this story as the young woman is portrayed as an enfeebled victim who needs a man to protect her. They won’t like that as all women in modern comics have to be portrayed as fierce and independent, sticking up for themselves like they are men in a dress. I disliked it because the women is portrayed as a weak victim and the only thing that will safe her is a statist symbol of corporate ‘authority,’ that being the cop. Have comics changed all that much? Look at all of the statist authority figures in comic books today. Are they not all cops or special agents to the corporate state as well?

The second story is something that you certainly won’t see in contemporary comics. Again it’s from the point of view of the female protagonist (which is understandable, as that’s the best way to bring the female readers into the story, to make them empathise with the main character.) This time her problem is not financial (like the first tale), it’s her physical appearance. Is she too fat for love? Yes, I know how funny that sounds, but can you tell me that young girls today won’t be going through these same emotions? Look at their skinny role models, and look at all of the tales about anorexia and bulimia that you hear.

This tale follows a rich young girl as she finally realises that her weight isn’t as important as she thinks, and that a man will love her for more than her appearance. The only problem with the story is that it doesn’t follow through with it’s own premise, as at the end of the tale the young girl loses all of that weight as the love of her life jumps into her arms and happiness overwhelms her. If you are going to tell young girls that being fat isn’t a bad thing then it’s probably not a good idea to have the girl lose all of the weight before love finally arrives.

This tale really shoots itself in the foot, and in that sense it’s unintentionally really, really funny. But would you see any of these themes in a contemporary comic? That’s very interesting to me, as I can’t recall ANY portrayals of fat girls in my big stack of comics. That could be a real issue today, and perhaps it’s the reason why you have so few girls reading comics now? After all, why would they want to read comic books where female characters have unrealistic physiques that they cannot compete with? Come to think of it, you have the same issue with young boys as well, don’t you? Body image is something that comic books don’t deal with in 2014 and in that sense little has changed since the 1950’s.

The third story is about ‘drugs.’ Its portrayal of illegal (non-taxed) drugs as bad is very contemporary, in that this portrayal has changed very little in the mainstream over the past sixty years. All drugs are bad, well, all of the illegal ones. The legal drugs are fine, and they don’t count as ‘drugs’ because a statist authority figure (a Doctor) gave them to you. The only difference in this 1950’s portrayal of addiction is that a nice boyfriend ends up saving the young girl at the end of the tale. In modern tales that nice boyfriend wouldn’t be allowed to save her, as the girl always has to be portrayed as ‘independent.' No boyfriend is allowed to save her, because that’s ‘sexist.’

This story has a predictably happy ending where an exciting boyfriend is dumped, and she is taken back into the safe arms of corporate society by her boring and safe boyfriend, her boring and safe friends and mainstream education and ‘medicine.’ And what is the moral to the story? Watch out for excitement, it will probably lead you into becoming a drug addict. It’s best to be a corporate slave. It might be boring, but at least it’s safe there. That’s not true of course, but that’s the story you’re getting here.

Lots of readers of this book will get a lot of fun out of the next full page spread, of a young Ronald Reagan (Yes, that Ronald Reagan) as a dapper, handsome young man who is the ideal husband for all of the young readers of the book. He’s portrayed as handsome, ambitious, sporty, respected and caring for animals. It seems very naff, but if you take away his obsequence to statist authority figures I can see that he has some admirable qualities here. He’s a statist honey trap of course, bringing young girls into the control system. But is he any more ridiculous than the male celebrities that young girls are taught to admire these days? At least he’s not a wife beater, a talentless television non-entity or somebody who boasts about his wealth and power, like just about every moron celebrity worshipped by young girls today. Sure, he’s Ronald Reagan, but at least he’s not prancing around in a bejewelled facemask and calling everybody who doesn’t worship him a ‘racist.’

The next story is pretty stupid, and at its core it’s fulfilling a fantasy that is politically incorrect these days, where a man saves a woman from physical danger and they fall in love and live happily ever after. The only way you’ll see this played out today is in reverse, with a woman rescuing a pathetic man from danger, emasculating him in the process and taking all of his masculine power away. But hey, that’s okay, because that’s progressive, right? Girls love weak men you know? They can’t get enough of them. So this story about a man rescuing a girl from a bear at the zoo is ridiculous, but at least they have the gender roles in the right order, and you won’t see that these days.

The next story, about a man at work being distracted by his mini-skirt-clad secretary, is obviously very dated now. With it’s portrayal of men as being the bosses (not anymore, the women are bosses now) and with the girls wearing mini-skirts not to feel good about themselves, but to attract the men and get themselves successful boyfriends. No way would this be allowed to see the light of day in a 2014 comic. It shows just how much gender roles have changed since the 1950’s, and as you look around the world today, do you think that’s been a good thing? No longer can a man be a man, go to work and feed his family. No, that role has been taken from him. The wages have decreased and the bills have gone up, so now both men and women have to work just to live and pay those bills. This has led to increased divorce rates, and the situation where men have been taken away from their children, and those children have brought into the control system of the new daddy figure in their lives, the corporate state. Do you see how this works? How the corporations and governments have colluded to control families, by destroying them and taking control of their lives? If you think this is a progression in humanity then you’re a bloody idiot. Take men out of the home and society collapses. That is what is happening right NOW.

The last story in this book is a tale about how physical appearance is not as important as being a decent human being. Okay, it's a slightly ridiculous tale, but at least it’s attempting to tell young girls that a man should love you for more than just your appearance, and if all he’s interested in is your appearance then he’s probably not worth having anyway. Again the woman is portrayed as the less dominant partner, waiting for the man to make his decision, but, and I’m sorry to break this to all of you deluded liberals out there, this is the role that men and women are supposed to be playing. They are the roles that make us happy. They are the roles that have always made us happy, both men and women. Is there anything so bad about that?

So what did I get out of the book as a whole? I got the impression that gender roles were far less confused in the 1950’s than they are today. Men knew how to be men, and women knew how to be women. There was happiness there, not confusion, loneliness and resentment. Sure there were problems, and the portrayal of women as helpless victims, waiting to be rescued by a strong, handsome male protagonist who is little more than a fill-in for a corporate government system is deeply problematic to me. There was a soldier and a policeman, and a politician and the rest of the ‘good’ men were little more than drones to the corporate, work hard, never question, pay your taxes and die system, but at least they were recognisable as men.

When I read comic books today there is little difference between the male and female characters. Do you think this is not problematic? Look at the world you live in today. Is it a paradise? Because that is the world that has been created by people who have been indoctrinated into the erroneous belief that men and women are the same. They are not the same, and the longer we kid ourselves about this the more unhappiness is spread in our decaying western world. Broken homes, less and less jobs with both sexes competing for them, no breadwinner roles for men, increased intrusion into the family by a corrupt state, unhappy women who find comfort only in alcohol, and a generation of children who lack strong father figures and have abandonment issues.

The end result is unhappy children eager to put on the control system's uniform and serve as their minions, where they get to unleash the anger caused by abandonment issues on anybody who does not bow down to the global Police state that is being built all around us. So look at this silly, ‘politically incorrect’ comic, and ask yourself this question. Were things really so much worse in the 1950’s, where men were portrayed as men, and women portrayed as women? What is wrong with that? And, more importantly, what is wrong with the world we are all living in today?

Rating: 7.5/10