I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain? - io9 Comments

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

corpore-metal — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:41:01 PDT

@Daveinva: I knew that Wells, like so many during that time (HP Lovecraft just for starts.), supported the ideas of eugenics but I don't think he ever supported the Nazis. In his Outline of History he bluntly criticized both the Nazi and Soviet regimes.

But yeah, like so many idealists from the early 20th century, many of his political ideas seem rather embarrassingly old fashioned now.

But to derail the thread a moment, what I miss, as a technoprogressive at the dawn of this new century, is the good ol' days when the left wasn't so afraid of science and technology. Why can't we left of centers see technology as a liberating force like we used to? Sigh. I guess that all died in the clouds of Hiroshima, Chernobyl and Bopahl. Oh well.

corpore-metal

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

RAHfanboy — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:16:28 PDT

@Agent_spanky: "the comic is not pro Republican by any stretch."

C'mon, it's an escapist fantasy, what do you expect?

RAHfanboy

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

Daveinva — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:07:31 PDT

@corpore-metal: Not just a Fabian socialist-- Wells was also quite enamored with *National* socialism.

Daveinva

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

edosan — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:12:40 PDT

@Agent_spanky: So he takes Matt Fraction's comic "The Order" (or the "Infinity Inc." plotline from 52) and moves it to Iraq?

edosan

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

mar3nez — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:31:08 PDT

I thought McCain was a Cylon.

mar3nez

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

Asari — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:38:03 PDT

i have no idea what these artists political leanings are, but i think this is meant to be ironic. Falls flat to me.

Asari

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

dingleberry — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:35:45 PDT

@bonniegrrl: Wow, that was awesome!

dingleberry

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

corpore-metal — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:40:37 PDT

@Darkweave: Science fiction has been political since the beginning.

Wells was very political, being a Fabian Socialist and all. The Time Machine can be viewed as satire on the end result of stratification between rich and poor. Heinlein was also very political expounding on many views that US Libertarian and GOP intellectuals would agree with.

Sure it's possible to write stories, comics and movies that avoid commentary about the current political situation but if the authors themselves bring politics up, it's hard to avoid talking about it.

corpore-metal

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

bonniegrrl — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:48:52 PDT

Meh. I'm more impressed by The Empire Strikes Barack --

bonniegrrl

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

Guscon — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:23:00 PDT

I just took it to mean that McCain will use nuclear weapons moreso than Obama.

Or something to that effect.

Guscon

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

Darkweave — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:48:18 PDT

@Mathmos: Ahh yes Repugnicans... Dumocrats.. Libertardians... Lets just keep bringing politics into everything... dividing us up even in sci-fi and comics.. /sigh

Darkweave

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corpore-metal — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:47:48 PDT

@Agent_spanky: When a year we'll know if this is alternate history or not. Which sort of reminds me of this alternate history of presidents and wars:

Patrick Farley's "The Spiders"

[saturn5.com]

corpore-metal

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

ManchuCandidate — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:32:13 PDT

@Agent_spanky:
I hope that is the case because the poster was kinda stupid. It's also a bit irrelevant considering that John McCain will probably be long dead before US troops finally leave the Mess'o potamia.

I rather enjoyed Kelly's Heroes, too (as he whistles the tune of Burning Bridges.)

ManchuCandidate

I Am Confused By This "War Heroes" Poster -- Please Esplain?

Agent_spanky — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:51:37 PDT

Newsarama has an interview with Millar about the series and it sounds pretty good.

Basically the story line is that McCain wins the election and the war goes on for many more years. In an attempt to boost recruitment numbers several decades from now the army offers soldiers the chance to be boosted to super human levels. America is falling apart at the seams (just like now) and China and Russia have become the economic super powers so no, the comic is not pro Republican by any stretch.

The story focuses on a group of mates who join up to get super powers with an ulterior motive in mind. To me it sounds more like that great old Clint Eastwood movie Kelly's Heros only with super powers.

Agent_spanky