Are superhero stories good for us? Most contributors answer that final question in the affirmative. Psychologist Robert J. Sternberg, for instance, argues that we all can learn a lot from superheroes-and what we can learn most of all is the value of wisdom and an ethical stance toward life.
On the other hand, restorative justice scholar Mikhail Lyubansky decries the fact that justice in the comic-book world is almost entirely punitive, noting extreme examples such as "Rorschach" in The Watchmen and the aptly named "The Punisher, who embrace a strict eye-for-an-eye sense of justice, delivered instantly and without mercy. In the end, the appeal of Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and legions of others is simple and elemental.
Superheroes provide drama, excitement, suspense, and romance and their stories showcase moral dilemmas, villains we love to hate, and protagonists who inspire us.
Perhaps as important, their stories allow us to recapture periods of our childhood when our imaginations were cranked up to the maximum--when we really believed we could fly, or knock down the bad guy, or save the city from disaster. Author : Muller-Fahrenholz Publisher: Wm. He hopes that an outsider may be able to identify elements that Americans are too close to see, acknowl. Author : Matthew J. As such, superhero comics develop trajectories of unique artistic and storytelling strategies that approach myth, religion and ethics in a uniquely American fashion.
For Arnaudo, the superhero genre in comics is a form of storytelling that is uniquely of the people and of the present, primarily because of its adaptability to and expression of older literary forms like the epic.
It sinks the thing into the life of the storyteller, in order to bring it out of him again. Thus traces of the storyteller cling to the story the way the handprints of the potter cling to the clay vessel.
As Arnaudo puts it, Just as poets of the past littered their works with references to the princes who protected them, so the Marvel and DC comics artists move with current events to establish an enduring relationship with their readers, who buy each new issue and like to see their own reality and therefore, indirectly, themselves reflected in the work. These mythic forms become commingled with the superhero genre, as comics artists simultaneously adopt and subvert those forms in dialectical ways.
And, despite the conservative elements of censorship that constrained the expressivity of comics throughout the fifties and sixties, Arnaudo shows how superhero comics consistently complicate morality and cultural ideals, as in how comics consistently frame killing or commitment to the State in complex ways.
Through a rich body of evidence and lucid presentation, he persuasively outlines the dialectical relationship between comics and culture in affirmative terms. Arnaudo shows how collective, serialised storytelling func- tions and affects us in the present. The Myth of the Superhero is interested in how the superhero comic works rather than how it fails.
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