The world of comic books has become the repository for new Hollywood scripts. It seems that no new ideas are coming out of the writers guild. Why did we renew their contract again? In any case, I can't blame them for turning to our printed and illustrated hero's of our child hood for inspiration. I think any body that can say they grew up after The Great War (WW1) and that would be almost everyone alive today, can say they have some what fond memories of their romps with comic books. The reason for this is the seeming commitment to the cause of good our paper hero's had. Face it people. Comic books made being good seem really cool! My grandfather, father, me and my son all looked to Captain America with pride and joy and strived to live up to his code of ethics "Peace, Justice and the American Way" Now I know you naysayer's will inevitably say that it was all propaganda but who cares? It was propaganda We could all believe in.
Today especially in a world of cynicism it stands to reason that we need something to realign our faith in humanities desire to reach back to our collective childhood years and to be good once more. It is not enough to pray people, if when we pray we forget the values that as children made us want to be hero's and not bullies. Comic books simplified the struggle between good and evil so that as children we could understand. Every hero had a simple rally cry that reminded us of a simple truth. Super Man said "Up, up and away!" This was meant to make us look beyond our mortal coils. It was meant to make us look to the stars and beyond. Spiderman donned his costume with reluctance each time but never declined his duty because he remembered the words of his dying uncle Ben, "With great power comes great responsibility." and tell the truth, is their anything more eloquent than that.?