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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
And I thought I wasn't going to write in this thing for a week...
Tim O'Neill counters Dorian's essay on Identity Crisis. I think they both make good points, but I must respond to two things in O'Neill's post.
First, there was a Spider-Man book that dealt with child molesting. It was some educational book (Scott Shaw! profiled it, but since Comic Book Resources' search engine doesn't work I can't find it) and it had a flashback to Peter Parker's life where a babysitter played a little too rough. I don't think that was quite what Tim was going for, but I thought it worth mentioning.
Second, I have to agree with Dorian, I can't see kids being enticed to buy this book becuase of the cover. Off all the people on the cover of the book, Flash would be the only one reconizable to kids becuase of the Justice League cartoon. A Hawkman character did appear on the season finale, but he was a bad guy and it was only that episode. Zantanna appeared in the Batman: Animated Series, but those episodes aren't rerun enough for kids today to know them. Also, kids who read comics, for the most part, don't read DCU titles. In another post Dorian goes over what kids (and others) buy. I shop at Dorian's store and can vounch that he certianly knows what he's talking about. The only DCU book that gets a mention in the "kids" part is Catwoman, but she's not on the cover of this book.
It's not impossible a kid could come across the rape scene in IC, but it's not impossible that a kid could come across the same (or worse) in another comic or movie or TV show or whatever. It's a fact of life that a parent is someday going to have to explain something to the kid that he or she shouldn't have seen at that age. It happens all the time and most kids end up fine. They may not end up loyal DC readers, but these days that's pretty unlikely to happen anyway.
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