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A review by rebus
Big Game by Mark Millar
3.0
I'm not familiar at all with Millar's world, but it seems as if he's taken the route that Alan Moore did in the 90s and created a lot of characters who are mere cognates to characters in the Marvel or DC universes, from the New Gods to Superman and everything in between (without the charm of Moore, who was paying a loving, if post modernist, tribute to the original heroes).
Millar has a veneer of edginess, what we might even call somewhat leftist politics, but it's really not all that different from anything the big two ever published. Sure, he says that plastic toys and big summer movies--which morons like Walt Hickey laud--are what people had left after 1986 to piece together what they'd lost (heroes and their humanity). I might even agree with him that 1985 was truly the last great year for art of any kind, but it all rings a bit hollow when a character admits that all hunger and discord is engineered by the real villains behind it all, that presidents and the mass media merely work for them. The fact is that most of us in Gen X knew that WELL before 1986, and he's not offering anything new or original in terms of political analysis, no real depth behind such superficial statements. He's gone a bit Graham Hancock here and there, not realizing that the works of Don DeLillo or David Cronenburg were telling us that this is no time travel or multiverse--due to the error in math by Schrodinger that was exposed by Heisenburg LONG AGO--and that there is no possibility of any of the basis for this tale.
It may be true when a character intones that" given them a culture war and they will never wage a class war" but it seems to me that Millar--like Tom King and other right wing hacks--is on the side of waging the culture war for his own personal benefit (massive wealth) and that he really doesn't care that the money of the few never trickles down to the masses (and they probably can't run it with AI and a few million slaves).
It's fairly entertaining, but he and King are the last guys whose work should ever have reached such financial heights.
Millar has a veneer of edginess, what we might even call somewhat leftist politics, but it's really not all that different from anything the big two ever published. Sure, he says that plastic toys and big summer movies--which morons like Walt Hickey laud--are what people had left after 1986 to piece together what they'd lost (heroes and their humanity). I might even agree with him that 1985 was truly the last great year for art of any kind, but it all rings a bit hollow when a character admits that all hunger and discord is engineered by the real villains behind it all, that presidents and the mass media merely work for them. The fact is that most of us in Gen X knew that WELL before 1986, and he's not offering anything new or original in terms of political analysis, no real depth behind such superficial statements. He's gone a bit Graham Hancock here and there, not realizing that the works of Don DeLillo or David Cronenburg were telling us that this is no time travel or multiverse--due to the error in math by Schrodinger that was exposed by Heisenburg LONG AGO--and that there is no possibility of any of the basis for this tale.
It may be true when a character intones that" given them a culture war and they will never wage a class war" but it seems to me that Millar--like Tom King and other right wing hacks--is on the side of waging the culture war for his own personal benefit (massive wealth) and that he really doesn't care that the money of the few never trickles down to the masses (and they probably can't run it with AI and a few million slaves).
It's fairly entertaining, but he and King are the last guys whose work should ever have reached such financial heights.