“Never, ever underestimate the degree to which people will scatter themselves into a deep fog in order to avoid seeing the basic realities of their own cages. The strongest lock on the prison is always avoidance, not force.” (Stefan Molyneux)
Writer: Robert Venditti Art: Robert Gill Publisher: Valiant Comics Released: 15th July 2015
Book of Death #1 is a cliché ridden threat event book with a bunch of superheroes fighting to save the world from an evil dictator, or something, and it has a book in it about a prophecy, and the only one who can read it is a young girl.
The story is about the girl, and who gets to control her, a heroic superhero bloke, or the heroic intelligence agencies. Yes, I said that correctly, the heroic intelligence agencies.
Soldiers and cops, the dogs of the state
The villains in the book are threats to the established order, and it’s up to the military and those working for them, to stop the threats, and to keep things going as they are, because obviously, everything is going just fine at the moment.
I found it telling that the book, when looking for historical examples of horrible things happening, went to the Spanish Inquisition and the Second World War. There is no mention of Iraq, or Gitmo, or rendition, or Abu Ghraib or Edward Snowden, or Bradley Manning, or Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, the Ukraine, ISIS and how the west is openly funding terrorism now.
No, forget all of the things happening NOW, that’s controversial, lets go back to the safe examples, and back to telling our silly little childish comic book threat event book.
I cannot conceive how any half-intelligent adult would get any enjoyment out of this embarrassingly stupid child’s comic book.
I know that contemporary comic book narratives have a habit of reinforcing the status quo and ignoring all of the important issues of our post 9/11 world, but this one really is taking things to a whole new level of deliberate, pointless, dumbed down idiocy. Every single thing about it is perfunctory to the core, and I see no point whatsoever in wasting any more words on it.
Art: Sergio Aragones Story: Mark Evanier Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Released: 20th May 2015
It’s so refreshing to read a funny comic, that’s actually funny, and not knowing, clever, ironic, self-modern, neo-liberal, feminist or Marxist.
Reading this issue of Groo: Friends and Foes #5 took me back to a time when comic books were good. A time before the influence of cultural Marxism, and what we have in the majority of comic books today.
Contemporary comic books are not funny. I want to enjoy them, but it’s impossible. How can I enjoy a comic book that reminds me of one of my old Feminism/Marxism College classes? It’s really depressing that those dated and discredited ideas have managed to permeate themselves so deeply into the psyches of writers today.
What the Hell are they doing? Have they not being paying attention to the world recently?
They do realise that Marxism is 100% sponsored by private banking interests, don’t they?
They do realise that feminism is anti-family, anti-individual and being used to enslave people to the corporate state, don’t they?
They do realise that new legislation is being passed that will make you a ‘terrorist’ if you don’t agree with the tyranny of the state, don’t they?
Do they not realise what is going on in 2015?
What the Hell is going on with all of this cultural Marxism feminist crap that I read in my comic books today?
I realise that writers have been indoctrinated by their suburban educational experiences, but they do have the Internet, right? They might have been lied to at school, but they have no excuse for doing what they are doing. They have no excuse for their ignorance.
When you have the information available, and refuse to look at it, that’s ignorance, and that’s what I see in mainstream comic books of 2015.
IGNORANCE (ignore ance) OF THE TRUTH (Please watch this short video)
Groo is different. It’s silly, and funny, and there’s no cultural Marxism in it, at all. The characters are daft, it’s written with a wink, and a sense of the absurdity of life. It made me smile, it made me think back to the times when comic books were like this, when they were their own little thing and the world looked interesting and full of possibilities.
When I read contemporary comic books I’m reading statist propaganda. I’m reading the death of all hope, the death of rebellion and any chance of human emancipation from the tyranny of the neo-liberal corporate status quo. Imagination has died, and the books are being written by suburban fanboys looking to sell a script of spectacle and quips mixed with a dollop of politically correct feminist Marxism to their all powerful Gods of the Tele ‘lie’ Vision.
I don’t want to read that. I want to read something that is good. I want to read something that doesn’t want to join the corporate borg. I want to read something that is free, something that is a celebration of life, not a negation of it.
Groo- Friends and Foes #5 is silly, and funny, and it made me smile. The characters are always smiling, even when they are frowning, even when they are being beaten up, they are doing it with a smile. If you want to smile, then buy the book. It’s timeless, and good, and unlike any other comic book out there today.
