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Grant Morrison's dad was cool as fuck.
(link found in a Mindless Ones comments section)
“Morrison’s pacifism grew from his army experiences in India. During the Gandhi demonstrations in 1942, the troops were briefed that they would be facing women and children protestors. The 18-year-old asked what they would be expected to do if they refused to halt. ‘Open fire,’ was the curt answer. Walter promptly stood up and said he would be the first to open fire: he would personally shoot any soldier who turned their gun on a woman or a child, and he would then shoot the officer who gave the order. His feet scarcely touched the ground on the way to the glasshouse.”
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Why it’s impossible not to love Superman-Todd VanDerWerff
“Superman resonates because he’s a mirror, in some ways. We can all project onto him the things we best like about ourselves and about humanity. He’s the guy we want to see in ourselves, the thing we secretly hope we are, even when we know we’re nowhere near that, or even capable of it. When he was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938, the two consciously modeled him on mythic figures like Hercules and the Jewish legend of the Golem. Much has been written about how Siegel and Shuster’s Judaism informed their creation of the greatest Gentile superhero, the pure embodiment of American pie and the Fourth of July. And there’s definitely something to the notion that the two came up with an alien superhero because they felt like aliens in their own land, just as much as there’s something to the idea that he comes from a dying planet because the two had roots in Europe, and that continent felt like it was cracking apart in 1938 as surely as Krypton does before Superman’s parents send him away, particularly for the Jews who were unable to flee.”- Why it’s impossible not to love Superman, Todd VanDerWerff from the AV Club
