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dewlineSome fan-minded rambling on my part over the Civil War mess, some of which originally saw "print" over at Mike Norton's blog...
For myself, I find that I cannot complain at all about the way this is playing out to date. If Marvel Editorial holds to their promises, particularly the comment by Quesada that "public is public", and the consequences play out as they must...well, maybe it's time.
I've been thinking that something of this sort was going to have to happen sooner or later for quite some time. Some who post and/or lurk here may recall my arguments -- however brief and intermittent -- with assorted Legends APA members on the subject.
It does seem to have taken the 2001 Atrocities to set these wheels in motion. And for DC, I note, they're trying to steer in the opposite direction on secret IDs. Some of those have already apparently been retconned back in the wake of Infinite Crisis to certain earlier career status quo ante crisium points. (Waving "Hello" to Hal and Ollie in particular, here.) I don't think it's going to work out for them over the long haul, but it'll be interesting to watch them keep trying.
My feeling about DC's level of success at resisting the tide on secret IDs continuing as a primary plank of the genre's conventions...I blame David Brin, particularly his novel Earth, for pointing out the obvious trend: we're steering -- by design as much as accident -- towards a "no secrets tolerated" society around the world. Secrecy will be conflated with privacy -- and in some circles, already is -- and will be seen as a greater offence than many others currently agreed upon in the world's social contracts.
In any case, I look forward to a lot of interesting comics reading for at least the next couple of years.
Okay, that's my thinking in a nutshell, slightly expanded. Anyone else who gives a hoot, am I nuts?
For myself, I find that I cannot complain at all about the way this is playing out to date. If Marvel Editorial holds to their promises, particularly the comment by Quesada that "public is public", and the consequences play out as they must...well, maybe it's time.
I've been thinking that something of this sort was going to have to happen sooner or later for quite some time. Some who post and/or lurk here may recall my arguments -- however brief and intermittent -- with assorted Legends APA members on the subject.
It does seem to have taken the 2001 Atrocities to set these wheels in motion. And for DC, I note, they're trying to steer in the opposite direction on secret IDs. Some of those have already apparently been retconned back in the wake of Infinite Crisis to certain earlier career status quo ante crisium points. (Waving "Hello" to Hal and Ollie in particular, here.) I don't think it's going to work out for them over the long haul, but it'll be interesting to watch them keep trying.
My feeling about DC's level of success at resisting the tide on secret IDs continuing as a primary plank of the genre's conventions...I blame David Brin, particularly his novel Earth, for pointing out the obvious trend: we're steering -- by design as much as accident -- towards a "no secrets tolerated" society around the world. Secrecy will be conflated with privacy -- and in some circles, already is -- and will be seen as a greater offence than many others currently agreed upon in the world's social contracts.
In any case, I look forward to a lot of interesting comics reading for at least the next couple of years.
Okay, that's my thinking in a nutshell, slightly expanded. Anyone else who gives a hoot, am I nuts?
