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starwolf_oakley (starwolf_oakley) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-23 23:27:00

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publisher: wildstorm, title: the authority

runespoor7's post of Jason Todd talking to Mia Dearden led to a thread discussion about billionaire vigilantes beating up poor criminals.

A panel from THE AUTHORITY: TRANSFER OF POWER shows that at least a few comic creators are aware of this.

"The Authority" was always pretty "out there" for superheroes. But that's Warren Ellis and Mark Millar for you.

For more than a few superheroes, actually being a superhero can be seen as a case of Noblesse Oblige. Noblesse Oblige can be seen as "With great power comes great responsibility... and a really smug sense of superiority."

It came back to Batman, as these things do. After all, we never really go into detail about how "well-off" the Kents were from farming, or how much Clark Kent's Daily Planet take-home pay is. Some seem to think it ties into "Lonely Place of Dying," that since Tim Drake's family is wealthy, Tim isn't as "street" as Jason Todd.

Quotes from users via http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/987439.html?thread=27947311#t27947311:

runespoor7 said: "The fact is, 'Oh, Jason was lower class and her turned out badly, and then he was replaced by Tim, who came from a good family the same side of the streets as Bruce and who did very well as Robin' leaves a strange impression."

lynxara said: "In particular, confronting the class issues at work in the Batman stuff is impossible without coming to the conclusion that most of the characters involved are selfish monsters so steeped in white privilege that they've lost all grasp of reality."

icon_uk said: "Dick was suddenly an ethnic Romany with angst about the likelihood of him ending up in jail like so many of his kin."

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	aaron_bourque 2009-09-24 07:05 am UTC (link)
	If a competent writer was on Green Arrow, Canary wouldn't be marginalized. The characters wouldn't be hateful spiteful fucktards. Conner Hawke would still be able to shoot arrows, and wouldn't have super healing. The book would actually be good and I would read it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xlineartx 2009-09-24 07:19 am UTC (link)
	Man, in a perfect world Dinah wouldn't need to be not marginalized in Ollie's book, she'd have her own. Written by Gail. However I am not going to get into my dream Arrow books, since I do that all the frickin' time anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-09-24 09:37 am UTC (link)
	No, in a perfect world, Black Canary and Green Arrow would be co-features in their own book, and they'd be happily married instead of . . . not . . . and they'd team up often. Because they're happy, good people, indulging in their happiness and goodness. Grrrrr. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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