50-Word (Comic) Review- 2000AD- PROG 1958: You always mistook fists, for flowers

Writers and artists: Various
Publisher: Rebellion
Released: 25th November 2015


The overarching theme is of resistance to unaccountable, authoritarianism control systems, fighting against enforcers. The best story though is ‘The Crow Gifts.’ It encapsulates the ‘progressive’ desire for martyrdom, for pointless death to further their cause of suicidal, masochistic, nihilistic emptiness. This is how the left feeds it’s own executioners.

Rating: 9/10



What am I on about here? Two things: First off, most of the stories in 2000AD feature little people against the power of the state. Judge Dredd acts like a US Policeman in one of those videos that keeps getting released online (#JudgeDreddMatters), and the other narratives feature resistance fighters (as the heroes) against top down control systems and state agents. That says a lot to me, it says that there’s a growing sense of anxiety in the western world today and there’s a growing understand that our supposed leaders are not quite as benevolent as they make out on our tell-lie-visions. That’s good. It’s a start at least, and it shows that the writers in 2000AD are not being bogged down with 1990’s nostalgia or cultural Marxist identity politics, as is happening in the US comic book industry right now. The best thing about PROG 1959 of 2000AD though is ‘The Crow Gifts’ by David Baillie. The story is about a young girl. She lives with her Grandfather, feels trapped, and rebels against his pragmatic advice about safeguarding her own future. Rather than do as he advises (living a life as a wife and mother with a prosperous husband) she chooses to embrace her own destruction, feeding birds that will eventually peck her to death. You could over analyse this story, and talk about multiculturalism, feminism, liberalism and immigration, but I’ll keep my analysis simple. To me, the story is the perfect synthesis of the suicidal progressive movement, a death cult political ideology that always embraces fists, for flowers (see song at end of review). I read ‘The Crow Gifts’ and see the progressive left, independent, feminine, nurturing, loving, and walking straight off of a cliff. 2000AD is pretty good this week, but Crow Tales by David Baillie is a lot better than pretty good. It’s easy to rail against an authoritarian control system as you can see the tyranny right in front of your face. But to recognise the weakness that comes from within, that’s the key to fighting back and reclaiming humanity from all that has been lost, not just by force, but by indoctrination into progressive politics and an ideology of martyrdom and self-destructive, masochistic nihilism. 

What happens if the progressives win? - A rant about multiculturalism, progressivism, Islam and the west.

Article by: Rorshach1004
Date: 27th November 2015



The weakness at the heart of European neoliberal, progressive, multicultural, political ideology is a suicidal self-hatred that rots from within.

There is no strength, no resistance, no energy, no passion, no life and no future in the movement. It is a collectivist system of weak, pathetic, grovelling cowards and masochistic martyrs who are just begging for a cross and somebody to nail them up on it. You become a ‘Progressive’ if you want to suffer, or if you want to die.

All that subscribe to the toxic, self-defeating ideology of progressivism will be used, abused, and killed when no longer needed. Sadly enough, executioners will not be necessary, as the progressives will happily, joyfully, kill themselves first, just to stop any bother and unnecessarily hold-ups in their dream future of a multicultural BBC paradise. That future does not include them, or their children, but they are perfectly okay with that.

If the west has to die, then that’s okay. We the white people, we the west, are all evil racist bigots anyway, right? Remember the Holocaust? Remember slavery? Remember the crusades? Remember the Inquisition? Are you white? If so, all of the historical crimes ever committed by white people in the past are your fault, and you deserve to suffer for it.

If the progressives win, Islam dominates. If the progressives win, western civilisation dies. It is 2015, almost 2016, and Europe is under attack. The attack comes from the progressive movement on the inside, and the Islamic movement on the outside. This unholy alliance of progressivism and Islam, if successful, will kill off western civilisation, and when Islam reaches a certain point, the progressives will be killed off as well, but don’t feel sorry for them. They love it, they really do.

Islam will do what it always does. It will moderate it’s demands, bide it’s time, and breed itself into dominance. When it’s numbers reach 8-10% of the population, it will push for Sharia law and demand that western civilisation becomes an Islamic civilisation, a civilisation where (amongst numerous other terrible examples) the ‘crimes’ of homosexuality and adultery will be punishable by death.

That is the threat that hangs over Europe right now. It is a threat that is being advanced by the progressive movement with their calls for diversity and multiculturalism and the fact that the native white (and other, non-Islamic) population’s birth rates are dramatically lower than the birth rates of the Islamic migrants.

Western countries, by admitting large numbers of Islamic migrants, are preparing a future for themselves where their newly Islamic population will (democratically) call for Islamic law to be the highest law of the land. This will put an end to all of the human rights that western civilisation has gained through hundreds of painful, brutal years of individual rebellion against centralised, dictatorial, ideological, religious authority. A new dark age of top down state repression will begin all over again, and if you want to look at a good example of that right now, look at Saudi Arabia.

Unless the west starts to reject the self defeating, suicidal tenets of multiculturalism, tolerance, diversity, and all of the other PC crap that has come from the progressive movement then perhaps the Islamists are right? Perhaps they will really just breed us off of the face of the earth? Perhaps the west really is a decadent, dying culture on its last legs, and just waiting to be put out of its misery?

Here’s the hard truth. If we don’t start doing something about it, if we don’t start defending ourselves not just from Islam, but the suicidal cult of progressivism, then perhaps we really do deserve to be wiped out?

If you are not prepared to defend yourself then, sooner or later, you will be attacked, you will be badly hurt, and you will die. That is what is happening to the west right now.

The west is under attack, and we are not even defending ourselves. I’m not the kind of guy that takes kindly to being punched in the face. I read comic books, but I’m not a suicidal/progressive liberal drip.

I’m not ashamed. I’m not scared, and I’m not going to put up with the progressive destruction of the west. The fight is on. I’m not going to shut up and let everything that was built by far better people than myself collapse all around me. I’m not going to go along to get along, that’s not my style.

Hey progressives. Kill yourselves by all means, but you are not going to take me down with you. The ideological war is on. Progressivism is a suicidal death cult, and it’s time that we called it out for what it actually is. We need to talk about it, how it is enabling the growth of fundamentalist Islam, expose it, and get rid of it for good. Here’s to a healthy future away from progressivism, Islam and all of the other stupid collectivist ideologies that man invents to enslave other men. Take care, enjoy the weekend, and speak truth whenever you can, even if it does make you the least popular person in the room. Sod it. Speak truth. What else are you here for?

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50-Word (Comic) Review: We Are Robin #5: Indoctrinating Children into Government Mandated ‘Diversity’

Writer: Lee Bermejo
Artist: Jorge Corona
Publisher: DC
Released: 28th October 2015


Introduce fatherless young diversity tropes, a cackling villain, a philanthropic Bat-friend. Daddy-state needs children, reinforces violent coercion with paper law justification, always needing young recruits. Can’t portray ‘controversial’ truth in DC, reduced to politically correct diversity programming. Push female emancipation. It’s the 1950's. Don’t mention statism. I see patterns here.


Rating: 3/10 


Did that ‘review’ make any sense? Probably not, so I’ll explain. ‘We are Robin #5’ is a book about young superhero types. As is to be expected in mainstream comic books of 2015, these young superheroes are very diverse, and largely female. The story follows them as they beat up a sexist male, and argue about a mystery bloke who wants to fund their crime-fighting comic book escapades. The book concludes with a cackling villain trying to recruit them into his evil gang of murderous miscreants. Will they join him, or will they accept an offer of help from the mysteriously minted (Bat) bloke? Why should we care about them, and why should we care about their choice of future employer/benefactor? I don’t know. I couldn’t get anything out of these characters. I guess if you’ve read the previous four issues (I haven’t) then you’ll give a damn? This is my first look at the title, and what I’m reading here is a book that’s pushing the usual youth diversity message that you get in pretty much all mainstream/corporate/statist programming vehicles. The kids are shown as vulnerable, as needing a ‘father’ as they are out on the streets alone, so why isn’t the real life father substitute (the state) given a role within the narrative? The state doesn’t exist in this book. Why is that? I find that to be very weird. Is this a Batman book thing? Did the state collapse at the end of the Endgame arc? Does that mean that there is no longer any collectivist in a suit who is pretending to represent the people of Gotham? Does that mean that the people are finally free from the collectivised violence of top down state control? Does that mean that we don’t have to sigh at the television as creepy would-be controllers go through their tired routines of offering bribes to their increasingly disenfranchised fool voters? If so, if the world of Batman is now an ‘anarchist’ world, then the absence of the state within this narrative would make sense. Is that’s what’s happening here, or is it just a case of a comic book writer not thinking about the state at all, and how it recruits traumatised children into their control system of human enslavement? If you write a comic book about kids looking for a father substitute, and don’t include the NUMBER ONE father substitute in the entire world (the state) you are either not paying attention to reality, or you are deliberately ignoring uncomfortable truths about the nature of the world as it is today. I’ll give writer Lee Bermejo the benefit of the doubt and assume that he hasn’t really thought about the violently coercive nature of the modern state and just wants to write a PC comic book about ‘diverse’ characters. If that’s what you are after, then buy the book, but for anybody interested in reality, you’re not going to get a lot out of this one. 


* If the world portrayed within this book is in a state of anarchy (freedom from state control) please let me know, and I’ll happily take back everything that I’ve just written. 

50-Word-Review: The Uncanny Inhumans #1- Starring Christine Legarde as Medusa

Writer: Charles Soule
Artist: Steve McNiven
Publisher: Marvel/Disney
Released: 21st October 2015


Medusa as Christine Lagarde, Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, totalitarians masquerading as liberators, protectors. Humanity enslaved to collectivised left, on the Daily Show/ CNN. Male emasculation as female liberation, cheat on your husband, in his face, no shame, immorality is tolerance, kill tradition, diversity a mantra, collectivisation, feminist New World Order.



Rating: 2/10


There’s two stories going on in ‘The Uncanny Inhumans #1# but they didn’t particularly grip me. The first one involves Black Bolt trying to get his son back from cartoon evil ‘Kang the Conqueror.’ The second story involves his wife (Queen Medusa) acting like a globalist politician, ‘Your world is our world. We will always fight to keep it safe.’ Medusa is the empowered boss of this book, working with what looks a UN approved superhero diversity team, appearing on collectivist, progressive media platforms (The Daily Show), and concluding her day by kissing her new boyfriend in front of her ex-husband’s (are they even divorced yet?) face. What does she think about her missing son? It is her son, as well as Black Bolt’s, right? We don’t know, as she never mentions it, she’s far too busy with her political agenda, and new boyfriend to care about a missing boy, even if he is her own son. Oh, by the way, she’s a heroine in this book, not a villain. Yep, what we have here is the typical ‘progressive’ feminist protagonist, more concerned with her career and personal pleasure than the welfare of her own family. She’s not a woman, she’s a representation of the very worst kind of man, but that’s third-wave feminism for you, and that’s exactly what you are getting in this comic book. Female empowerment is always pushed as a good thing as it emasculates men, denies the biological reality of femininity, and pushes females into positions of authority within the new state collectivist system of human enslavement. Females are encouraged to join this system where they can boss around/protect the poor innocent victim/voters that grovel at their feet in willing supplication. Females know what is best, because they are female, and they get to tell us all what to think, feel and do. If you disagree with them that means you are you are a misogynist bigot and are a danger to the wonderful new world order that is currently being ushered in by the wonderful progressive liberal writers working for globalist programmers Marvel/Disney comics. If you disagree with any of this progressive agenda then you are a barrier to ‘progress,’ to be ostracised from society and thrown in jail if you continue to speak up on any of these issues and invade the ‘safe space’ non-reality of all that push it. Hey guys, blokes, men, and any traditionally minded female who values family, respect, honour and real femininity over far-left communist inspired ideology. Why are you reading these comics? You do realise that they are attacking YOU, don’t you? I read them to expose this anti-human ideology, and to talk about it in these ‘reviews,’ because nobody else is doing it, and comic books are being given a free reign to push this collectivist crap. I have to write about it, because I disagree with what they are pushing, and I want to call them out on it. That’s my excuse for (occasionally) buying these horrible tools of Marxist/Globalist/FemiNazi propaganda. What is yours? 




* Bonus story is statist bull**** with an agent of the state rescuing a poor innocent helpless civilian/victim from evil white men with beards. Same old s***.

The Tithe #6- A Microcosm of the Insanity that is the Modern US Progressive Movement

Writer: Matt Hawkins
Co-Creator & Layouts: Rahsan Ekedal
Artist: Phillip Sevy
Publisher: Top Cow/Image Comics
Released: 21st October 2015



The unholy marriage between progressivism and Islam is exposed for all to see in this unintentionally hilarious, blind to reality, desperate not to offend PC comic book.

A violent hate mob of ignorant Islamaphobes.

I love it, I really do. This is a perfect case of giving a progressive US comic book writer lots and lots of rope, standing back and then watching as he trips, stumbles, falls on his arse, and inevitably ends up swinging from a noose of his own creation.

I don’t wish any misfortune on writer Matt Hawkins, I really don’t. I want him to keep on writing these comic books, to keep on talking down to his readers, and to keep on exposing the self-destructive madness that is at the heart of the US ‘progressive’ left.

In The Tithe #5 good old left thinking Matt engaged in classic, textbook progressive doublethink. He wrote a book about an Islamic suicide bomber blowing himself up in a Christian Church, but being a progressive type he couldn’t bring himself to blame Islam for the murderous event, so he did what any progressive would do in such a situation. Yes, he ended up blaming white, racist, far right Christian skinheads for the bombing instead.

Muslims would obviously never dream of doing such a dastardly deed. Of course not and all of the things that have happened in Syria and Libya over the past couple of years must be part of the right wing conspiracy as well, right?

The story in The Tithe #5 was outstandingly ‘progressive’ work from Mr.Hawkins, but he was missing that one vital ingredient in his politically correct cocktail. That ingredient is duly added in The Tithe #6. What ingredient am I talking about here? What is this progressive text missing?  Take a second, think about it, and then come back to this review.

What does every ‘progressive’ comic book need in 2015?

Oh no, that poor man. Who will save him?

If you guessed ‘Young woman of colour as heroic protagonist’ well done, because that’s exactly what is added in The Tithe #6.

Here she comes, the biggest cliché in contemporary comic books, jogging down the street, listening to feminist icon Beyonce, coming across a bunch of ignorant, racist ‘rednecks’ beating up a poor innocent Muslim, and jumping to his rescue with high kicks and empowered punches to the face. Oh, throw in the fact that she’s a Muslim, of course she is, and you have that progressive wet dream of a fictional character, the empowered Muslim girl fighting against evil, ignorant racists.

This empowered female Muslim character gets around quite a lot in comic books today, and she’s always fighting against evil men. Not Muslim men of course, she never does that, but she sure does know how to kick ignorant Christian butt. It's strange that, don't you think? Why is the liberal comic book world full of empowered Muslim girls who don't appear to be doing anything to stop what is happening within their own Muslim communities, preferring instead to kick a load of white guys around? Ummm, strange that, it's almost like comic book writers are trying to avoid something.

A couple of weeks ago the WWE toured Saudi Arabia. The female wrestlers did not attend the tour, and all of the shows played to male only audiences. Back home on US television the WWE continued to push it's female division as feminist icons for young girls to look up to, even though none of the female wrestlers said a word about not being allowed on the tour of Saudi Arabia. And what did feminists say about the WWE touring a country where females are not even allowed to drive a car? Absolutely nothing. That’s how pathetic it all is, and it just goes to show how blind to reality the modern feminist movement really is.

The progressive cliché heroine is the only addition to the narrative in 'The Tithe' this month, apart from a guest appearance by a right wing Donald Runsfeld look-alike politician. He’s the guy behind the skinheads, and his genius plan is to stage terrorist attacks all over the US in order to demonise the poor innocent, peace loving Muslims and to ensure he gets elected as the next US President.

Don't fret worried citizen, here comes liberal wet dream Girl.

I’m not joking here, that’s the actual story in The Tithe. This book is so ignorant to the reality behind extremist Islam (Sunni and Shiaa) that it cannot conceive that Islamic suicide bombers blow themselves up for the simple reason that they are faithful believers in the violently intolerant group-think, collectivist ideology that is the religion of Islam.

All of those beheadings and suicide bombings that we see every day on our television sets and all over the Internet in graphic detail, have nothing to do with Islam. No. It’s all a big right wing conspiracy of racist, sexist, white Christian lunatics, and as this book ‘progresses’ I’m sure that this devious plot will be uncovered by the progressive wet dream Muslim girl and her reluctant (he’s black, so he’s a good guy) cop father.

The whole thing is so completely ridiculous, not just because it flies in the face of reality, but because the FIRST people that would be blamed for any ‘Islamic’ terrorist attacks in the US right now would be right wing groups. It’s the first thing that would spring to the progressive mind, and that progressive mind is all over the mainstream media right now. It’s not a fringe belief, it’s the status quo consensus and it’s pushed by the corporate media on a hourly basis, not just in their ‘news’ reports, but all over their drama programming (usually about cops) as well.

Why do progressives always blame somebody other than Muslims whenever Muslims commit a terrible crime? For a recent example look at what happened in Israel last week with Palestinians randomly stabbing Israeli citizens in the streets. Look at who is getting the blame for that. It’s not the hate filled, knife wielding perpetuators, is it? No, it’s the Israeli’s who are getting the blame because they are defending themselves from getting stabbed.

That’s how ridiculous the progressive mind-set is. They have victim categories, and if you are not black, Islamic, female, gay, transgender, or whatever is trendy this week, then you must be part of some evil, sexist, right wing, patriarchal conspiracy, as is pushed in this comic book.

The progressive left doesn’t appear to understand that if Islam starts to have a major influence in the west (and that is the goal) then the first people to be targeted will be the progressive left themselves. All of the victim groups that they themselves are supposed to be championing would be hit the worst. I’m talking about women who disobey their husbands, atheists, new-agers, homosexuals and many of the other groups in the west that are currently enjoying freedoms that simply do not exist in the Islamic world.

Under Islamic law many of the freedoms that have been won from the tyranny of the state over hundreds of years of western civilisation would disappear overnight. That’s why the state loves progressivism, that’s why the television and newspapers push it, and that’s why we should be doing all that we can to stand up to it and call it out as the self destructive ideology that it is.

The sexy agents of the US police state.

The progressive mantra of ‘tolerance’ is opening up the western world to a group of people who are as intolerant as you can possibly get, so intolerant that they will chop your head off in the street if you disagree with them.

The marriage between Islam and progressivism then is completely one-sided, with the soft left welcoming a patriarchal death cult that will put them to death as soon as speak to them. It’s completely nuts, and that’s exactly the kind of suicidal mindset that is exposed for all to see within the pages of this painfully PC comic book.

I’ll conclude this review by restating something that I said at the beginning. I love it, I really do. This comic book is perfect, and long may it continue. What it is unwittingly doing is exposing the self-destructive unreality that is at the heart of politically correct, identity politics progressive ideology.

Matt Hawkins has been given some rope, and just look at what he’s done with it. Great job Matt, keep up the good work. What you are exposing here is vital, and your attitude of tolerance towards violent intolerance is a message that we all need to understand, correct, and start to do something about, something that involves defending ourselves, rather than waiting for the inevitable downward arc of the Jihadi Islamic blade.


Rating: 7/10 (A vital comic book that must be read in order to understand the insanity that is at the heart of the modern US progressive movement)


* Credit goes to writer Matt Hawkins (really) for pointing out the differences between Sunni (Saudi Arabia, ISIS, Wahabi, supported by the west) and Shia (Iran, supported by Russia, feared by Israel, for very good reasons). There is some real ignorance and street level bigotry caused by a confusion between the two sects, and some of this is explored within this comic book, though not in the detail that I would like, plus it's very convenient for narrative and ideological reasons as it frames 'rednecks' as ignorant people who don't know the difference between the two groups. The problem with Islam is not our ignorance between the two major groups, the problem is bigger than that. It's a problem of an entire group of people that want to completely change every single thing about western civilisation and the freedoms that we now have after hundreds and hundreds of years fighting against the state, usually backed up by the collectivist ideology of religion.  Islam is a backwards, intolerant religion that does not respect women's rights and the right of the individual to live his life free from the collective ideology of religion. Islam is a step backwards, and the west needs to be very, very careful with it.

Secret Wars #6 of 8: Fatherhood versus State Collectivism

Art: Essad Ribic
Story: Jonathan Hickman
Publisher: Marvel (Disney)
Released: 7th October 2015

This article is not a review. It’s intention is to discuss the role of fatherhood, using Secret Wars #6 to illustrate some of the broader points about the importance of fathers within the family unit and as a vital component in today’s fight against the collectivisation agenda pushed by the modern state apparatus.

In Secret Wars #6 a young girl (Valeria) is undergoing the process of realisation that her stepfather is a liar. His name is Doctor Doom. He is a dictator, a man pretending to be God. He represents the western democratic bogeyman of 2015, the anti-democratic dictator. This evil man must be disposed by western military intervention. He represents the past. He is an obstacle to change.

Valeria Richards appears to be about twelve years old, and is portrayed as independent, intellectual, very smart, very questioning, and very self-aware. She is like no twelve-year-old girl that I have ever met. Simply put, she is exceptional, a genius.

This positioning of the exceptional young female who questioning male authority figures is a common theme in contemporary comic books. The old structure of western society is portrayed as being organised around male power, normally tied to religion. It is portrayed as corrupt, violent and an obstacle to human progress. It needs to be replaced by young females. The message is clear. Old men need to step down. Religion is a lie. There is no God. The message is feminist and atheist.

The argument is that men, and the religions that they have created, have made the world the terrible place that it is today. Men and religion are oppressive symbols of the past. Women and atheism are the future. What we need then is a brave new (atheist) world controlled by exceptional young women. This is the idea, and it comes from Rockefeller funded university classes that push Marxist, feminist identity politic cultural programming onto the middle-classes, specifically girls, but men get it as well.

This is how it works: Middle class children are taught that white males are to blame for all of the evils of the world. The real reasons (blind obedience to the violently coercive power of the centralised state) is not taught. They are taught that the solution is to build up girls as the replacement, as the future leaders, that girls (because they are not boys) will make the world a better place.

Boys and girls go through the same cultural programming, girls are empowered by it, and as boys want to please girls, they go along with it as well. It doesn’t matter if the underlying assumptions are true, or not. What matters is that boys want to please girls, so they are happy to accept it as truth, even if it’s not, even if all the evidence around them contradicts what they have been programmed to believe. What young man would want to be labelled as a misogynist? None, and so they go along with the cultural programming.

Will the future then be a utopian society ran by female geniuses? No, it will not. The future is NOW, as this cultural programming has been pushed by universities for over fifty years, and has been a constant in progressive mainstream media texts for the past decade, at least.

So why isn’t the world a wonderful place today? What went wrong?

Instead of producing a western world of female geniuses changing the world for the better, what has been produced is a broken society where family break-up is the norm. The family unit has been targeted, and destroyed, and females now compete with men in order to serve state control systems that collectivise the individual and make the world a worse place for all of us all, men, women and children alike.

Men have been continuously told that they are bad, just because they are men, and women have never been more depressed, lonelier and isolated.

The progressive world of feminist ideology leads to frustration, depression and dependency upon the state. The genius girl as portrayed in Secret Wars #6 is all grown up now, and she is a retired government worker. She is a spinster, surrounded by cats, with no family of her own, drinking, taking prescription medicine for anxiety and depression, and wondering why her life turned out the way that it did. And how does she answer this question? She blames men, and thus, the cycle is complete.

In 2015 progressivism as pushed by cultural Marxism has created a society that blames men, depresses women, destroys families and empowers the state.

That is the inevitable end result of progressivism. When you attack tradition, attack masculinity itself and put young girls on undeserved pedestals you get a breakdown of the family, and a subsequent breakdown of society itself. Of course you do, what else could possibly happen? That is the disease of contemporary liberal ‘progressive’ ideology fused with third wave feminism. It is an ideology of destruction, of collapsing all that has come before it, in order to bring in a utopia that has never existed, and cannot exist as it goes against human nature itself.

In a progressive society nobody is empowered, women are miserable, families collapse, and the world that is created is a collectivist, soviet Russia style Hell hole. All that is remains is ideology wedded to the state. This is Hell. This is the world that we live in. This is the world that we are continuing to build with disenfranchised men, bitter, disappointed women and unhappy, fatherless children.

Secret Wars has a chance to tackle the ideology of collectivism wedded to the state. You have to remember that Doctor Doom is not the real father of Valeria. He is a stepfather, and thus could be portrayed as a state stand-in, an artificial substitute for the real father, the real head of the family unit. Valeria’s real father (Reed Richards) is plotting against the state as represented by Doom, so this story could put out a strong message about the role of the father in reuniting the family unit against the tyranny of the state.

If Doom represents the tyranny of the Collectivist State, a tyranny that takes the role of absent men/fathers within the family unit, then the victory of Reed Richards will be saying that men need to return to the family in order to resist the power of the collectivised state.

There are two issues left in this Secret Wars arc, and it’s very likely that this will happen, so even though I get fed up with this continuous pushing of the girl genius as the liberator of humanity, the likelihood is that this book will have a very positive conclusion. Will it happen, will the role of the father as a barrier against state collectivism be re-established, just as it needs to be in the real world? I hope so, and I’ll keep on reading in order to find out.