Monday, January 11, 2010

The Lord Of The Rings Bow And Arrows

Wanted, or when the ball goes to the poor - 3

We are not yet arrived, however, the focus of the speech, yet not all that clear. Then think of a Stormwatch of Wildstorm. The cartoon in which events are narrated training of heroes in the service of the UN, not just entrusted to Warren Ellis is transformed to become the nightmare of the hero soldier in the service of a big brother crazy, embodied by the Weatherman, ready to use the power of "superhuman" to crush the freedom internationally. Then, defeat the evil tyrant, the group becoming emancipated from the UN "The Authority", or the authorities whose purpose is to bring world peace, but did not observe the regole degli uomini. I protagonisti di questa serie, oltre che assolutamente innovativi sul piano della caratterizzazione (per la prima volta si legge di una supercoppia gay, Apollo e Midanighter, sorta di riscrittura di Superman e Batman, da sempre accusati di parsifalismo) agiscono in modo assolutamente sconvolgente. Prendono coscienza del loro stato di Dei in terra. E come tali agiscono, modificando il loro tempo su scala mondiale, scardinando una volta per tutte la gabbia di insensata e mistificatoria moralità che tratteneva i primi supereroi.

Addirittura, nelle ultime fasi, una volta affidato allo Scottish Marc Millar, in a dark period coinciding with the disaster of September Eleventh, 2001, which led to the closure of the series, deemed too "dangerous" since New York on its pages is that Rome had been wiped out due to catastrophic and attacks, these heroes will find themselves, after having survived torture and harassment by agents of the service of the G8 heads of state, dealing with the possible destruction of Earth due to a cataclysm, to make the decision not to intervene:

Hawksmoor: I'll tell you exactly what to do, people. We will not do anything. Absolutely nothing. Perhaps resolving this story, we must be able to understand what we spend every second of every damn day. [...] Humanity is putting into this mess alone, and it is important that you learn to face the bloody consequences.

Doctor: For God's sake, Jack, we are all angry about what we have done, but you do not believe that this is a little extreme?

Hawksmoor: It's not about revenge, Doctor: Got to give the [...] to genes that have created Seth (just defeated an opponent) a way to show what they are really capable of. Trust me. The only way to save humanity is to leave that for a time for her to save herself.

The hero does not act this way and are forced to become a hero. The cycle began with Marvels has found the right ending. Maybe ...

say that the hero, the king, is gone.

But still something is missing ...

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