From Iron Man Back to Trashman: Exploring the Science Fiction and Gothic History of Comics and Graphic Novels
Posted by Stuart Lindsay on June 21, 2018 in Uncategorized tagged with 2000 AD, comics, dc superheroes, frank miller, frankenstein, Gothic comics, graphic novels, Judge Dredd, Manuel Spain Rodriguez, marvel superheroes, Mary Shelley, science fiction comics, subvert comix, the dark knight returns, trashman, underground comixKeith A. Spencer writes: ‘In both neoliberalism and superhero movies, politics and big political decisions happen because the elite (politicians or superpeople or supervillains) make them happen. Society is ruled over by benevolent philosopher-kings (plutocrats or superheroes both) who watch over us and aid only when needed’.¹ He furthers this conflation of individualism and neoliberalism in the superhero movie by claiming that ‘there will never be a superhero who originates from a robust democracy or an anarchist commune, because those societies don’t create individual