It’s just a larger gripe I have where saving the world isn’t treated like paying work.
A story where superheroes for hire end up just becoming another branch of the US state apparatus, similar to the way the military tries to push people in tough situations to sign up could be a really interesting story.
You see comics with stories like that, but those scenarios don’t come to pass, or is done with explicit villains. That said, it would be interesting if the Suicide Squad just paid people instead of using prisoners. Though those would be the real monsters.
“Yeah, I know I’m using my death ray powers to blow up a hospital, but I had to pay for college somehow.”
I’ve often thought of doing a comic where the heroes work for a US/Capitalist analogue and are surrounded by propaganda that convinces them that the horrible things they are doing are “good” until a big twist moment partway through, where some of them realise that they’re being lied to and used by the establishment. I don’t like doing superhero stuff though, so designing a setting for it is rough.
A story where superheroes for hire end up just becoming another branch of the US state apparatus, similar to the way the military tries to push people in tough situations to sign up could be a really interesting story.
You see comics with stories like that, but those scenarios don’t come to pass, or is done with explicit villains. That said, it would be interesting if the Suicide Squad just paid people instead of using prisoners. Though those would be the real monsters.
“Yeah, I know I’m using my death ray powers to blow up a hospital, but I had to pay for college somehow.”
I’ve often thought of doing a comic where the heroes work for a US/Capitalist analogue and are surrounded by propaganda that convinces them that the horrible things they are doing are “good” until a big twist moment partway through, where some of them realise that they’re being lied to and used by the establishment. I don’t like doing superhero stuff though, so designing a setting for it is rough.