I think the title is self-explanatory but allow me to elaborate. Is there a character you started following and as you tracked them throughout their stories, you found yourself forming beliefs based on what happened throughout the pages? Or maybe there is just one specific story or moment where you suddenly found yourself take a stance on something. Could be a legal or philosophical belief. But go ahead and share if you want.
7 Likes
6 Likes
I would sneak comic books into English class in place of the assigned readings. Spawn replaced To Kill a Mockingbird, Batman Superman Public Enemies replaced the Great Gatsby, and Deadpool was the new Catcher in the Rye. Weird as it was, I learned more from them than I did those boring books.
5 Likes
X-Force and Youngblood shaped my belief that men have no feet and women have no waists.
My favorite part of The Great Gatsby is the giant half-Gatsby, half-Daisy robot, which perfectly reflects the materialistic emptiness of the Roaring Twenties. And when Boo Radley fights the Violator at the end of To Kill a Mockingbird, you can appreciate what it has to say about overcoming societal prejudice. But I really did get fed up with Wade Wilson calling everyone a phony all the time. We get it, dude.
7 Likes
no my beliefs were already well formed I did find heroes I could relate to like batman
some people think he’s sad because he doesn’t have a normal life but you can only think that life is sad if you think living for others is sad helping people makes him happy it makes me happy to
6 Likes
My first comics were X-Men which taught me about bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and oppression.
3 Likes
It is to Question’s homegirl, Ayn Rand 
3 Likes
Biggest thing I picked up was that you should talk up to people not down. Don’t be afraid to use 5 syllable words with a toddler. As someone who used to wake up every morning at 5 years old and read the dictionary because I was a mega nerd, as long as people can understand you, that it’s what is important.
I have heard a lot of great morals through comics but I don’t know that any of them shaped my beliefs.
5 Likes
she and I would not get a long
2 Likes
More on Ollie’s side lol
2 Likes
if he’s the opposite of her most likely
1 Like
I mean… I already have my beliefs and values established, and I guess I just gravitate toward comics that match up or are closely similar to them. I mean, my favorite character is a gun toting vigilante that kills the bad guys that just get arrested only to be put back out on the streets again. I think that says something about me.
3 Likes
I’m not sure comics, per se, or sequential art to give it the pretentious name we toss around, has shaped my beliefs. All of the things I read when I was young shaped my imagination and things which were predominantly the written word (even if accompanied with illustrations, pictures, etc.) were and have always been a large part of my life. A valid library card has been a constant every time I have moved, and even say a summer spent subletting in Chicago once, for example, also included applying for and using their library system.
So, comics have contributed to my beliefs, and helped sparked, among other things, my imagination, but I can’t say, for example, Barry Allen sparked an interest (or belief, if you will) in hard science or chemistry, or that Thaddeus Sivana and Lex Luthor sparked an interest in mad science.
3 Likes
That you are from Texas?
SN. I didn’t know you were a Punisher fan.
(These are both jokes. I mean no offense)
4 Likes
I’m from Texas we do all have its not even joke even little old ladies have guns in there bag jason would be most welcome here batman is also well liked here he’s the most liked superhero of state
3 Likes
I actually am from Texas
3 Likes
(I know, that’s why I said it 
)
2 Likes
I think my status as a history student has kinda infleunced my beliefs on comics as well. All the time, critics crying over Superman & Batman not being BFFs, conflicts and other events. I’m sorry, look at history, look at politics. Just because we’re part of some particular group - superheroes, race, religion, politics, class, doesn’t mean we are automatically friends by nature. It sucks BUT mankind is much more complex than that and can be utterly divisive.
NOW if there’s a complete Crisis event because Ollie stole Batman’s parking spot well…yeah, then…lol
3 Likes
When Ollie tried that I just removed his tires.
3 Likes