From: Danny Sichel Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [rec.arts.comics.dc.universe] Re: REVIEW: YOUNG JUSTICE #13: Snap Judgments Date: 12 Aug 1999 02:18:16 -0000 Subject: Re: REVIEW: YOUNG JUSTICE #13: Snap Judgments From: dwaynem595@aol.com (Dwayne McDuffie) Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.dc.universe >>Finally, I see no reason why a writer can't put forth his own politics >>or beliefs in his work. > >Because some people can't be "entertained" if there's anything that either >challenges their belief system or makes them think in the work. To quote >Yosemite Sam: "Thinking makes mah haid hurt!" Hear! Hear! You know, years ago I took a lot of heat for Deathlok's anti-gun, anti-violence stance. There was one worshipper of the second commandment...ah, second *amendment* who used to write me and my editor and Tom DeFalco *several* ten-page letters a month explaining why I should be fired for putting "anti-constitutional material" in a work of entertainment (Ignored in all this was that the tension of the book was Deathlok's pacifistic beliefs being gradually corrupted by his immense personal power). Finally, I wrote the guy into a Deathlok story, where he presented Deathlok with all of his arguments. Won over by the guy's flawless logic, Deathlok shot him in the head. And did this make him happy? Noooo! He said I was picking on him. As if I'd stoop that low.