4-Color Commentary

Well I’m certainly one who believes in the power of socially active civic structures, but as much as we might believe in figures of authority and the powers that be, there will always be people who succumb to corruption, negligence, indulging their own proclivities…selfishness and greed in perfectly ordinary people can continue to bog down the improvements on society.

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I have to say that I think there’s a vast difference between a soldier killing a terrorist in the line of duty and Magneto brutally and with his bare hands dashing the Red Skull’s head to bits with a rock. The latter is well beyond the scope of what is required, and if the soldier in question did something like it, at the very least there’d be a formal inquiry if not a full court martial.

It’s a statement about the real world too; you can’t just purge evil by killing the most evil thing in the room. Toppled dictators are replaced by warlords, gang beefs last for generations as sons try to avenge fathers, and now the Red Skull is replaced. Comic books use colorful ideas to illustrate real points.

Furthermore, Wanda and Rogue aren’t angry because “killing makes you just as evil.” This is a man they both love in their own ways, and one who they have both tried redeeming before, who has now given up on the shard of good in the Skull (literally his best friend’s brain/consciousness) and backslid into the barbarism his early life trained him for.

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I’ll admit to being a touch wary of this event’s premise to start with. Then I learned it that was in Jason Aaron’s hands and I read Mark Waid’s interview in which he detailed that the event was not just an opportunity to go back and tarnish the heroics of the Marvel universe and I got excited. I really liked the #0 issue as well.