We have been invited by Penguicon to be Featured Guests at this year's convention. Isn't that fancy? April 29-May 1 in Southfield, Michigan. Details in the forum.
ahhh, superhero registration. a concept invented by a generation of mewling infants who are horrified at the notion of a world that isn’t measured, marked, metered, stamped, and saran-wrapped for them by Big Mommy Government for their safety.
Superheroes are supposed to be archetypes of individualism– lone people who rise up to do what hidebound and often corrupt Powers That Be will not or CANNOT do, who do good deeds simply because they CAN. The Hero Registration trope just turns them into stooges and flunkies of those in power…. mall rent-a-cops in slightly sillier costumes.
What is really pathetic is that such an oxymoron as “licensed heroes” is so common that most writers seem to regard it as common sense. The idea of free willed individuals, acting without playing Daddy May I, makes them faint like hothouse flowers. But in an age of speech codes, “safe spaces” and trauma counseling for overhearing contradictory opinions, it’s all that can be expected of them, one supposes.
ahhh, superhero registration. a concept invented by a generation of mewling infants who are horrified at the notion of a world that isn’t measured, marked, metered, stamped, and saran-wrapped for them by Big Mommy Government for their safety.
Superheroes are supposed to be archetypes of individualism– lone people who rise up to do what hidebound and often corrupt Powers That Be will not or CANNOT do, who do good deeds simply because they CAN. The Hero Registration trope just turns them into stooges and flunkies of those in power…. mall rent-a-cops in slightly sillier costumes.
What is really pathetic is that such an oxymoron as “licensed heroes” is so common that most writers seem to regard it as common sense. The idea of free willed individuals, acting without playing Daddy May I, makes them faint like hothouse flowers. But in an age of speech codes, “safe spaces” and trauma counseling for overhearing contradictory opinions, it’s all that can be expected of them, one supposes.