What has happened to morality in our culture? What has happened to morality in our entertainment? Why do some of our heroes act more like villains? And why are villains and monsters in entertainment treated like the good-guys?
While teaching Sequential Art, the art of making comics, to college students, I often start a conversation about these very topics. I ask the question: “What has happened to our morals?” Not too long ago, one student replied: “We have none.”
How scary is that; especially coming from a young person who stated it in such a matter-of-fact way?
I address a bunch of this stuff in my comic, AN ACT OF FAITH. I’m drawing the second-half of AN ACT OF FAITH #7, the third part of “The Return of the Green Knight” story.
My next issue, AN ACT OF FAITH #4, will go on sale at the beginning of July.
Here’s three pages from AN ACT OF FAITH #7 which focuses a bit on some of the things that I addressed above. (Nemish-Man is not having a good day.) Also, on the second page, you can really see a couple of comics’ great creators’ influences on my storytelling.
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I think that's a great question. It's something I noted when going through old Iron Man comics in preparation for the new Iron Man Movie and it's gone downhill. I read a 2000 comic, "Mask in the Iron Man" where Iron Man's armor came alive and in the process of battle killed a long time villain. Stark was furious and re-iterated repeatedly that killing on purpose was wrong. Read a recent Daredevil story where Iron Man executed a Latverian official who was no threat at all to him at the moment. Seriously, downhill. Thank God for the old collections of many of these heroes. Because they're unrecognizable now.
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Well it's true that our nation is dwindling in morals, even our everyday cartoons for kids have much more evidence of that in them now than they did about 20-30 years ago. So the following generations are being numbed to certain moral issues and problems, they are desensitized so to entertain the growing generations movies and other entertainment media has to be more graphic and more detailed in order to keep their attention. But as a whole we're just not taught the importance of morals.