Violencia aceptada en los comics

What got me intrested in this topic? To be honest I never knew I was into this topic that much, until I had some sort of revelation one night. As I thought night after night what to do for my thesis, I kinda had the subject…which was “comics”, but what about them didnt seem to come through. It wasn’t until my friend Sergio Romero brought me the whole collection of Batman”THANKS SERGE!”. He adviced me to ignore the first 200 issues…Never got the point to that request, so I began reading Batman from the first comic. That had to be the sissiest Batman and Robin I had ever seen and read…That’s when I first got the idea to compare those type of characters back then to the ones now whom get showered with violence each day.

I have to admit, I haven’t neccesarily had the best disney childhood. Wait a minute…I dont think I’ve ever seen a Disney movie…I grew up with Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, First person shooters, and a whole lot of martial art movies. Thats why when I was in the presence of violence, I couldn’t tell it was violence. It all seemed natural to me…I mean, what kind of kid has Steven Segal as his hero at the age of 6? “ahem” the answer to that: me. Yeah, I know…don’t ask.

The point to these long and biblical paragraphs is that like me, the whole generation Y has been bombarded with violence since we were born. I hate to say this, but it’s only going to get worse as time progresses. Back to my topic though, comics. Have we literaltly accepted this violence because we like it? Or is it a way to keep us in control as some sort of therapy? Anyhow, staye tunned!