the death of capt stacy in asm has a very blunt soap opera quality to it. but the aftermath is proving interesting, intuiting that political tragedy creates a vacuum for domination, and that fascism relies on extreme narrativization and aestheticization of tragedy (panels from ASM 91)
@wasnotwhynot y'know i have to say i don't think a modern writer would be allowed to so bluntly say that law and order posting and fascism are the same thing even though they obviously are
@narfnra yeah!! I was thinking about daimos too while reading this… I think mainstream works now trend toward numb and apathetic, where they either have no connection to reality, or they’re really winking and coy about it, basically afraid of just outright saying it for w/e reasons lol
@wasnotwhynot mfw trying to be "apolitical"