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WATCHING THE DETECTIVES<\/strong>: More good responses to my Watchmen <\/em>piece.<\/p>\n

Superhero comics as the literature of ethics<\/a>, a.k.a. stuff I almost entirely ignored! (Partly because I was more into the murder-mystery\/existential questions than the superhero\/ethical ones. But this post makes like a dozen really good points.) Snippet: \u201cI\u2019ve reread five issues so far and I\u2019m more convinced than ever: Watchmen <\/em>is not a story about \u2018what superheroes would really be like.\u2019 It\u2019s a story about Cold War America.\u201d<\/p>\n

But wait! there\u2019s more! UO follows up with another really toothsome post<\/a>, including this yes-yes-YES moment: \u201cAlong that line, isn\u2019t it past time to stop discussing Watchmen <\/em>as a work of hyper-realism?\u201d Hyper-realism is both overrated <\/a>and impossible to recognize<\/a>. And oh wow <\/em>do I wish I\u2019d considered the Jewish angle. Must ponder further, in the Ponder Patch.<\/p>\n

Oh and as long as we\u2019re linking to Unqualified Offerings on comics, there\u2019s bonus growliciousness here<\/a>. I agree wholeheartedly\u2013I cannot, cannot, cannot! deal with stories where the ethical questions are dodged in the precise way UO details: \u201cIf you\u2019re going to write war stories, have the [deleted b\/c no blasphemin\u2019 on the blog] balls to acknowledge that killing people is what the participants in a war do.\u201d Oh man<\/em>, is this one of my personal rant ignition switches. Fortunately, UO has done my ranting for me.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"