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Kopf zwischen den Sternen (ian_karkull) wrote in scans_daily,

It is probably safe to say that John's friends and colleagues will be horrified by his actions and will be eventually forced to take him down when they inadvertently find out, but as you've said, that's just one way to make the reader empathize with him and we're just not at that stage yet.
Having just been introduced to the character, we have to get to know him based on how he's presented to us and judge his actions on their own merit. From what we've seen of John he comes across as an upstanding, average guy, decent if unremarkable, a sort of everyman one would have no problem identifying with. His victims on the other hand are, without fail, despicable human beings designed to be unlikeable and one would have a hard time not acting the same way he did, if put into the same position. Even the man who technically hasn't done anything yet freely admits that it's just a matter of time and openly gloats about it. We're repeatedly told just how awful all of his victims were and how much more damage they would have done if he hadn't stopped them. I'm finding this all a bit too omnipresent to interpret it as anything but a justification of his actions.

t's obvious our readings differ from each other, but that's not a bad thing. Everybody's preconceptions play a part in how they read a text, but tackling sensitive issues in a format like that should at the very least get people talking. Discussing what you take away from a particular comic or scene in question is one of the things this community is about.
It's still very early in the series and it could go one way or the other, but based on the evidence, this is what it lloks like to me.