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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (24 children)

Waynetech does huge amounts of charity work, it's just not very interesting in a comic book.

Gotham also has a literal curse that makes it perpetually dysfunctional. Its cop out comic book bullshit, but Gotham literally cannot be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (10 children)

andrew carnegie literally wrote a book about how the point of doing philanthropy is to buy off rubes like you, and yet rubes like you still buy it. Amazing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Dude, it's comic books. People fly around in their underpants and shoot lasers from their eyes. The conceit of Batman is that yes, he's nuts, but the Wayne's have always been intense philanthropists. Like, actually "good" billionaires, also very comic books and just as likely in our world as laser eyed underpants flying people.

The current conceit is that it doesn't matter what you do in Gotham, underwear or hundreds of billions in goodwill. It will consume you and any who exist in its domain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like pure ideology, you don't need to uncritically accept the conceits of a setting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The settings conceits shift at a whim, and have done so for 80+ years. They exist, then don't. They all warp and change however is needed by whoever is needed.

At one point, a dude punches reality. Literally hits reality with his fists.

Its fine to argue about any art form, but I think the most pertinent critique of comics is that it's art for capital. Any story element or setting is for sale in our world. Taking the inner world at any face value while ignoring that is pointless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I'm glad we agree?

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