By myself and many others.
Superheroes and Villains from the comics to the small screen, and now to the silver screen, are the gods of the modern age.
In the here too past many pantheons have been worshiped in an effort to explain how the world worked.
These pantheons made up the stories that humanity would tell eachother in the darkness of the night, the cold of winter, the blazing heat of the desert, the battering winds of the hurricane, as the earth shook.
Humanity would tell these stories in an effort to understand the dangers of the world outside of the ring of fire light, and when the danger had passed humanity would emerge back out into the world and learn the differences between the stories and what was happening outside.
Today we know and understand much, much, more than our ancestors. The stories have become less of an explination and more of an exploration.
As the Gods of old, reveared in their stories and the thanked for their guidence, gave way to that of the one god to explain our source humanity grew in it's knoweldge. And soon, the old gods no longer needed to be replaced by new gods. The old gods hold their domains safe and live in their followers hearts.
No.
Superheros are not gods in the classical sense.
No.
Superheros are not gods in the classical sense.
The gods that see over the affairs of the world and our hearts.
These new gods, these heroes of the world reflect what humanity strives to become.
They show us cautionary tales and ideals to strive for. They show us the danger as well as the joys of having a responsibility that fits our unique perspective on life.
These new gods, these heroes of the world reflect what humanity strives to become.
They show us cautionary tales and ideals to strive for. They show us the danger as well as the joys of having a responsibility that fits our unique perspective on life.
Which brings me back to the two giants of the comics world and how they are approching the responsibilities of telling the stories of these new gods.
On the D.C. front we are shown an unfiltered, often dark and squishy, look into how unbalanced a life as such can be. An unabashed, un restrained look, into the lives of the heroes and the effects that real world perspectives have when handed such power, or what it's lke to live with such power.
On the Marvel front we have, pardon the term, the Disney version of events. Sanitized, colorful, and non threatening.
The heroes are never bad and the bad are always redeamable.
Is either one a better way of story telling and approaching the responsibilities of these gods of the modern era?
No, just different.
And sometimes diffrent is better than the same.
Are these new gods here to replace the old gods or any such religion.
No.
And it is our duty to make sure that they do not.
Storytelling and imparting lessons perhaps.
But the wars of the religion are better left with the old gods.
Storytelling and imparting lessons perhaps.
But the wars of the religion are better left with the old gods.
