DC new 52: prehistoric

DC gave it the old college try, but the new 52 concept, whilst structurally sound enough, lacks commitment to its cause.

Its main characters have long since been chewed up and excreted as "brands" that lack soul and creativity. So it's silly to bother with popularity contests about them. Superman and Batman aren't going anywhere.

What is remarkable is how the topicality of the original golden age and silver age characters has become fossilised.

Hal Jordan as a test pilot in the space age was brilliant. Hal Jordan as... what exactly? In the 21st century is stupid.

But not as stupid as millionaire (now promoted to billionaire- inflationary spiral much?) playboys, journalists and even cops as alter ego professions.

No billionaire can be remotely clean, let alone heroic. Journalists are part of the political class or they end up murdered. Cops... Well if anyone simultaneously knows five or more cops and four clean ones they don't live on planet Earth. Smallville had to acknowledge these points directly with how it dealt with its superheroes' alter egos. And it was well done for its part.

The Brave and the Bold cartoon played around with the existing universe brilliantly, acknowledging apparent contradictions and blending it into a wholesome and relatively harmonious whole. Smallville simply started again, and I think to the extent it failed it wasn't the cornball and soap opera- that's what fans liked- it was shoehorning existing DC comics elements into it without fully Smallvillising them.

Probably the single most silly and old fashioned thing of all in the new DC 52 however is its political correctness. We've had it proven now for years that cultural marxism is not only ridiculous and a failure, it's also a direct attack on the real value system of our civilisation. To let the freaks and deviants run the funnybooks and write sheer perversity on a daily basis is just so clunky and prehistoric. Diversity, as a healthy outgrowth of the mixing of originally isolated populations, is a normal natural outcome. But the hidden agenda driving DC's witless shoehorning of "minority" characters as though they're so many unpopular types of nut included with the cashews and macadamias to pad out the bag is retarded. It's also highly demeaning to everyone but they have zero interest in that.

At some point the trademarks will reduce in value to the point that they melt like ice cubes... Not yet, and not particularly soon either... But it is as inevitable as entropy itself. We will see genuinely new characters again, but it will take the next Stan Lee to do it.

And he or she is not working for Warner or Disney, by definition.