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That would be too cruel for Batman, but yeah, I get the point. I just hate how prog writers do the no kill rule and then just lets villains go without any attempt at trying to redeem them. You can really feel how they never even attempt to think through "no kill" or on a related note, "rehabilitation not deterrent" for prisons and real-life crime. There's only ever a moral benefit, which isn't a benefit especially in this genre because they almost never reform and they have more potential to damage their world than Bin Laden did to New York.

I know the reason why they do it, it is just more profitable to leave the villain alive. However in japan super heroes stories, they have heroes who kill and are still highly praised and revered. Whenever you put teo characters fighting against each other, the risk of one living and not should be real, but in the end it is just like a exhibition match that they aren't as serious as they would be in a real contest. And stories are better when they treat it like that.

I do feel more emotion with a child holding a sword than any capeshit battle because the story convinces me that everything there is "real" and the decisions they take are something they put their lives on the stake for it.



Now would why I care if Norman shot dead after decades of not taking things seriously for these characters?

 

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I do feel more emotion with a child holding a sword than any capeshit battle because the story convinces me that everything there is "real" and the decisions they take are something they put their lives on the stake for it.

Mind you this is just the gekiga exception, everything after gekiga is not as good story wise. Occasionally you see a naoki urasawa coming close to gekiga but not quite. While western writers have a great advantage wrt writing realistic or dramatic stories, a lot of great batman solo outings are just that, the problem is they don't know how to keep philosophy, politics and morality separate or how to meld them when required, all of it is put in the same cauldron causing a miasma of blandness when mishandled. Alan Moore comes to mind, his first US comic was one about vigilante, a small dc figure, which focused on a woman who was sexually abused by her father and how killing him was 'bad' cause he was still her father and revenge begets nothing. That statement itself sorta shows how in vain the effort was. Same with saga of swamp thing, people laud it for so much but I remember entire segments being unreadable, especially with the drug trips, hallucinations, plant sex and woman rambling. But then again Japanese writers didn't flourish state side, with both kazuo koikes xmen and the blame authors wolverine issues being nearly unreadable. Since we're on the subject, kazuo koike is probably the best writer in manga history and his stuff is just so good. Buronson is a close second, both of them together have more shitty live action adaptations than anybody else in manga ever, which is a testament to how good their work is.

I was rereading the boys recently and I had erased from my memory how much went over my head just cause of the slang usage. A lot of stuff still goes over my head and I'm a bit disappointed I don't get stuff without googling it. Ennis tends to do this everywhere, did it in adventures of the rifle brigade as well so I would really like a comprehensive list of anglo slang from all four countries just to get my foot in the door. It would be really useful for both writing and understanding anglo language use instead of having to Google paragraphs of text.