tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post2275468489817431318..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: Wednesday Comics: AftermathTreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-22190800457945728132014-06-20T08:15:52.712-04:002014-06-20T08:15:52.712-04:00@Jim - Good points.
@Fran - Well...you do have &qu...@Jim - Good points.<br />@Fran - Well...you do have "angry" in your blog name, so that goes without saying.<br />@Tom - I don't think so, though I haven't re-read it in a while.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-68786127095510674872014-06-19T15:46:49.037-04:002014-06-19T15:46:49.037-04:00Does Vanth mention the Horn in the Dreadstar serie...Does Vanth mention the Horn in the Dreadstar series? It's been so long I can't remember, and not having read this before I might have missed it even if he does talk about it.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116795932377593506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-49206971913189373272014-06-18T12:46:06.342-04:002014-06-18T12:46:06.342-04:00I'd be angry too!I'd be angry too!The Angry Lurkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01227314379603418332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-14779995424017048002014-06-18T11:24:32.735-04:002014-06-18T11:24:32.735-04:00Okay. Now he shoots the mother f*cker. And now he&...Okay. Now he shoots the mother f*cker. And now he's the one to assume the Last Man's Burden to save these ignorant masses of a new land from themselves using his gift for violence...maybe Starlin saw a lot of Vietnam parallels in this, but really there's a wealth of colonialist fatalism and narcissistic fear-mongering of the 'You're Their Only Hope,' or The Chosen One' sort of self-fulfilling oppressor-prophecy going on. The entire core premise is pretty much a case of 'since we can't deal with it through our superior weapons technology, everyone and everything is doomed, so we had better burn it all down now.' That's not Vietnam; that's a constipated and paternal colonialist-technocrat's failure in the face of other people's success and innovation. The Zygoteans couldn't be dealt with by any means other than wiping out all the galaxy mostly because Akhnaton's people were unwilling to compromise, adapt, change or admit that someone might be in any way superior to them. The horrific part is how in the moment of his people's failure, one lone extremist goes out and destroys everything from spite...all the while promoting his giga-pogrom as some sort of genocidal scorched-earth cleansing on a galactic scale...<br /><br />Some intense stuff, but it seems to have far more disturbing resonances than simply re-telling the Vietnam experience. Akhnaton out-Hitler's Hitler, and goes on from there. A really rotten bastard that makes Vader look unambitious...garrisonjameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09544523186717576771noreply@blogger.com