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To which I would like to contribute to this thread with a few observations of my own...
I'm none too fond of Bin Laden and other terrorists who use the philosophy and religion of their people as a cover for what it is they're apparently really doing, which is setting themselves up as champions for the poor and downtrodden while basically engaging in bloody raids against whatever target seems most open for them to strike. In fact, I think it downright stinks, irregardless of whether or not there is justification for the causes declared. That being said, we have little recourse but to keep Al Qaeda from regaining a stronghold from which to build up its strength and strike again as they did on September 11th, 2001 (and worse, if the oft-repeated threats are to be believed).
At the same time, I've found Bosch's contributions to this thread to be a little one-dimensional and... getting tired. It doesn't make me want to even go look for his product, such as it seems.
I've only seen two or three post-9/11 comics in the past 7 years, with mixed feelings. Most were remembrances which showed the heroes responding to the attack by aiding in the rescue and recovery efforts. There was Al Lindser's Dawn comic (which I have) which pretty much spelled out his POV on the subject (not something I entirely agree with). Other books have come out since then which seem to dismiss the attacks all together and only focus on life in the field for soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, though I haven't been reading through them to see just what they're portraying. In any case, Bosch is not the only guy out there putting out post-9/11 comics; he's apparently put together a post-9/11 vigilante to promote his rather narrow focus on the enemy with little or no depth beyond what was hinted at about the background to Pigman and his creator. It isn't "politically correct", but apparently lies on the opposite extreme.
For my part, some of the concepts that I've been pulling out of my head (I also entertained a career as a professional comicbook artist at one time, although I'd do it now as a sort of "moonlighting" hobby) have also been affected by 9/11. However, I'd like to think that I can see the good Muslims out there who'd be more concerned with gathering dates from their orchard and making sure that little Ali grows up to be an heir worthy of his father's trade. My characters will be battling terrorists, but not going ape(blank) and breaking legs (indiscriminately). In fact, they'd be moving in fast, knocking out the cell they've made sure is an immediate threat, rescue any hostages that they find and bring them to safety. It's not half-measures done with PC-angsting about whether they were doing something wrong but it isn't going to be "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out", either.
Personally, I cannot fathom "political correctness". I think it becomes paralyzing, especially in face of the threats that can and have been followed through. It seems to me to be a sort of collective insanity brought on by lives led with too much opulence and too little actual experience of the things against which many of the politically correct tend to rail against. As I've overheard in debates at work, what do we do if we follow the directions given by the politically correct and just pull out and quit, leaving Iraq and the Middle East to burn and fall wholly into the hands of Al Qaeda and its like, only to wake up one morning and find that they have returned to our own soil and have followed through on what they've threatened to do again? (It could be anything, from scores of kidnapping/massacres carried out against schoolchildren to something as spectacular as detonating a smuggled hydrogen bomb in the heart of a crowded city.) I think, at that point, any political correctness that gets suggested will have a hard time even being voiced...
And those are my ¥¥
Edited by Carmen Bernardo on 04 August 2008 at 5:03pm
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