12-06-2005, 05:04 PM
Occhidiangela,Dec 6 2005, 11:47 AM Wrote:Kwai Chang Cain. ;)
The Hulk (Dr Banner) ;)
Ents ;)
I'll stop there. The reluctant arse kicker is a common theme in heroic (and therefore comic) literature. Real arse kickers, like Conan, are cut from a different cloth.
Occhi
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Ents are not exactly comic book material.
Cain was on TV.
The Hulk is Schizoid, a particularly interesting case of duality.
While I agree with you on the level that it is a common theme, in various pulp comics and fictions, it's all about the ass kickers with the ethic / moral / philosophical types playing second fiddle.
The Beast, and a few others like him, were unsual in their presence in comic books. A lot of people (mistakenly) believed that all comic book readers were mindless twits that could never appreciate the sort of thinking involved with appreciating characters like the Beast. In the golden age of comics, one only needs to see just how badly Batman got dumbed down to see what the pulp pushers thought of their readers. For a time, he became nothing more than an idiot playboy that fought crime for fun. All of his dark mystique and inner demons were lost.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."