Interesting comic column

[Samhaine]

http://www.thefourthrail.com/features/0901/thoughtballoons5.shtml

It deals with comic readers' perspectives on the recent tragedy while reading their comics. Check it out. It only takes a few minutes to read.

[James Harvey]

Great column, and I totally agree. Everything will be looked at differently now. Movies like INDEPENANCE DAY are being shunned now and any serious series is being retooled or fixed to help lgithen the load. Reading that issue of ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #596 would have been totally different if it canme out a week ago. Now reading and re-reading the current post-OWAW titles makes it chilling. In the comics we see a world reeling from an attack from alien forces.

Isn't it weird how this mirrors current times so closely?

And just a side note, I currently live in the same city as this guy. Fredericton, NB, Canada.

[Maxie Zeus]

Might the perspective work the other way, as well? Perhaps one reason we are so horrified by the bombing is that it looked like an event that, once upon a time, could only have been seen in fiction. Now that this (once fictional) event has become a reality, what might not?

No, I don't mean supervillains and giant lasers and rampaging lizards in downtown Tokyo. But we who have been long used to thinking of certain events of mass destruction as fodder for escapism find that the real world and the imaginative world have, at one point, suddenly merged. In making the fantasy real, we see how horrific much of the fantasy world actually was; equally, we more can more easily see the unprecedently fantastic as, perhaps, present in the real world.