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(Superhero) Comics That Resonate w/ Me !!
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In a lot of ways my love for superheroes seems kind of contrary to my core beliefs.
I don’t tend to like stories about action, and superhero stories are typically seen as very masculine. I also personally feel that the overall perception of them does a lot of harm to modern feminist movements and to efforts to decrease toxic masculinity. However, contrary to general consensus, I strongly believe that the actual art of superhero stories itself, at its deepest roots, is distinctly against concepts like toxic masculinity, and in a lot of ways is even distinctly anti-government. These are stories about good people doing good, saving people, and respecting others. Yeah there’s fighting but it’s always first and foremost about protecting humanity, and I think there’s something so beautiful about the idea that humanity is worth protecting even after all we’ve done.
I also just love me some dynamic compelling characters with larger than life designs, personalities, and moral standards !!
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TITANS (2016)
By Dan Abnett
This run on Titans is a story about a group of friends that time and space literally cannot keep apart. All the forces in the world are working to keep these friends from working together but they do it anyway.
They fight impossible odds, the opinions of their mentors, and the literal concept of time to stay together and love each other. A lot of this stuff is really sappy almost “power of friendship” stuff, but it really works for me here because you really believe in the bond between these characters.
When the roster changes the quality drops substantially, however. I’m not even sure if it has the same writers. Those first 30 or so issues are spectacular, though and really focus on why I love this team.
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Teen Titans (2003)
If Young Justice is about learning to feel pain growing up in a world of joy, Teen Titans (2003) is about learning to feel joy growing up in a world of pain. It is Young Justice but angsty, however the solemness of the story does not feel hopeless or tone deaf, but rather kind of beautiful? These characters deeply struggle but the little moments they share together pull them through their pain, and unite them even when all seems lost.
90's Grimdark Avengers
This era of Avengers is a bunch of depressed deeply traumatized divorced people who all live together and are dating each other’s exes. Everyone is constantly coming back from the dead, and killing each other, and blaming each other for their wife’s deaths, and it’s amazing. Peak 90’s comic pulp. Everything from right before Operation Galactic Storm up until the end of the original run of the book is golden.
Avengers (2013-2015)
The way Johnathan Hickman writes the Avengers is with a level of admiration/respect that it ropes back around and reads as fear. These heroes come off as paragons of peace in a world of war, and corruption and violence. It feels mythic in the best way. Both deeply highlighting how scary the concept of super powered beings is, and reflecting essential it is that we have heroes.