Originally Posted by
jackolover
Good to hear your comments on DR#1 Raffi. It’s the impression I get with how the world works nowadays. Some of the observations I would add, is that gangsters around the world run governments and they’re backed by big corporations, who control the media, and thus, us. It’s a truism gangsters run every country, and their modus operandi is to push bare faced lies as fact, and make it so they ‘fine’ anybody who resists, with exorbitant fees. I am pushing for governors to sack these politicians.
However, having said that, I do concede, gangsters are the only ones who are there to fight other gangsters who attack nations, because they protect their own. Private citizens have to give credit where credit is due.
So, going on with Devils Reigns #1 discussions, Chip Zdarsky’s story is Civil War Revisited, because CW was heroes versus a Dark Reign by Tony Stark. Tony Stark in Devils Reign involving himself as a gangster by becoming a Mayoral candidate just follows the formula of Civil War. As to the flow and trigger incident, it was rather tame with the Fisk speech, so it had less gravitas than CW#1, which blew a hole in a school full of kids. Then, as each group of superheroes clashed with the Fisk Thunderbolts, (the new Capekillers), there was little drama in each of the arrests. Mark Millar had a way of causing greater disruption, than the temper tantrum of Wilson Fisk. It meandered for the most part, through casual encounters by TBolts with superheroes, who had contingency plans for something like this. There needed to be a harder hitting ending than the one we got here.
The premise for Devils Reign is sound enough, but I don’t think the superheroes are taking it that serious. What does come across as more topical is how media gets to be used to manipulate individuals, so that Captain America is flamuxed by the attack, and so are the FF. Really, the war is about finding a way to become relevant against this kind of social media alienation and ostracism. Steve Rogers did it in his series recently, and so did the Champions, but there is no standard procedure that superheroes can use when people in power blind-side them. They basically have to wait it out, and hope the bad guys shoots themselves in the foot.