Usually I just read things here

but tonight is a bit different. I have a serious question that may sound like I"m being condescending, but I'm not.

My co worker was just talking about some new comic book series that is being released these days.

From what he's said it not only involves the illuminati, but it's based around all super heros having to register their identities for one purpose of another as a means of keeping track of and controlling them.

It also hints that this was caused by the government intentionally allowing a disaster to take place to give them reason to require all super heros to either go into hiding or to register their identities along with other such controlling mechanisms.

Now, I'm not saying I buy completely into the things Pressed Rat says, but I do take it all into consideration and find most of it to be reasonably believable. To me this sounds a lot like some scenarios which P_R often describes.

Does anybody else think this comic book thing may seem like a way to put the idea into kids heads that this is "something that only happens in comic books" to help discredit and downplay those who believe such a scenario to be real?

 

Well I am farily certain that Superheroes only exist in comic books. However, in the next decade or so we all will be required to carry a federal id card at all times and to be able to produce our "papers" wen requiredto do so by various law inforcement agents. This is coming and the government isn't even trying that hard to coer it up. They figure that if they spring it on us out of nowhere the response will be bad, but if they slowly get us used to it over a decade or so we will put up less of a fuss.

That, I would say, is that goal of the comic book. To get kids used to the fact of national registration and such.

 

I dunno, maybe it's the other way around...the comic book creators may be tryin to get the story out there, be it true, or be it not..(not the time for that conversation) and hope that something will be done by showing whats really going on in every facet on entertainment.. including comic books...
whats the name of the comic book by the way?

 

Marvels new Civil War series.

 

Thank you

 

And I also think, due to my own interpretations of the situation and John Titors predictions that there is a civil war coming soon to a town near you!-sorry had to make it sound like a promo for the comic book...but im serious!... or is it sirius? huhmm..much to ponder.

 

John Titor is full of crap.

 

The whole Marvel Civil War thing is nothing new...... the whole "govt control over superheroes" was first explored in Alan Moore's - Watcmen comic book series, pretty much the storyline that killed the old glamour of the superhero genre and brought about real (human) storytelling in comic book form... a classic. It's also been an ongoing thing in Marvel's X-Men comic books for... hell, for at least a decade (X-Men writers constantly use "mutant" characters in their series as objects of racism, prejudice and shit)

How much influence govt has over writers storylines is debatable (there are strict codes in the US over content of comic books, as, of course, kids are incredibly open to suggestion from this media). It's certainly a brave move by Marvel regardless, in the wake of 9/11 (where it was glaringly obvious that "capt america was most definitely not going to save the day") they had to decide wether to go full escapism and take their storylines away from the real world (a la DC comics with their handy "alternate universes") or make their storylines and more realistic and bring in a reflection of real world politics and their effects on their characters.

They chose the latter........ and only the storyline itself will let us know if the writers are pro-govt policy... or against it....

Don't expect to find the answer in the comic books until after the next presidential elections tho'.... a company as big as marvel will only ever produce stuff that follows the majority of public opinion... it doesn't make any business sense not to

Either way, it's nice to finally see comic books "growing up" and giving the kids issues that are directly influenced by the real world to think about

 

yes, yes... I am sure he is...