comic strip panel

The comic strip panel I chose was from DC’S New 52: Forever Evil. As we all know, superman and Batman are the icon of a bunch of superheroes as they were created and developed during the period of great depression and getting more and more famous after. At that time, the crime rates keep going high and the economy crisis are still there, not to mention the terror of world war II. Then there comes the golden age of superheroes, while every hero stands for justice and seems so perfect and undefeatable. Then the changes occurred and brought superheroes with charms and energy they never had before—they became complicated and started to face their own twisted fate and weakness. Superheroes no long wins forever and villains no longer stands for the “absolute evil”. The heroes became the god among us, with humanity in them. The authors started to discuss humanity and divinity—or superiority presented on heroes. And while the plots and conflicts and getting more and more complicated, the edge of heroes and villains started to disappeared. And while the anthropocentrism’s blooming, Lux Luther was created as an anti-hero. I still got a deep impression on what he said: “When I see you, I see something no man can ever be. I see the end.
The end of our potential. The end of our achievements. Then end of our dreams. You are my nightmare.” It’s no longer about justice. It’s about humanity. So when those anti-heroes keeps coming up, the discussion of justice and humanity has been further then ever. It also presents the different prospective among American. So when an anti-hero, Lex Luther saved Superman, his rival, such heroic move of an anti-hero created so many things to talk and gave us with limitless boundary of imagination on the characters. When the authority’s losing people’s trust, when the edges of heroes and villains starts to disappear, what will people be like? Such kinds of questions also occurs from time to time in our society (Like the Watergate scandal incident)  It represents the mass culture’s confusion and conflicts facing such kind of problems,