What I object to is the
kind of contemporary superhero writer who says, “Let’s make Captain America a
child molester, and that will be ‘edgy.’” No, that will merely violate the
long-established essence of the character. Superhero stories are at
least as much as about moral heroism as they are about super powers or any of
the rest of it. And doesn’t mean the stories can’t be “dark” (though they
should not be universally and relentlessly so). For example, the Netflix “Daredevil”
is quite dark, but uses that menacing
darkness to put a contrasting spotlight on Matt Murdock’s unswerving moral
commitment.
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