Nothing new, media has been brainwashing people for years. "Crime doesn't pay", "Good will triumph" etc have always been clear themes.

Have you ever seen a police chase show where the criminal actually got away? Of course not! It works hand-in-hand with the general form of adverts: Problem; Solution; Happiness. Obey people, OBEY!! Worshop that box in the corner people, and never think for a minute that it may be affecting your subconscious decission making processes.

On a more serious note, most people think that media doesn't affect them. That is bullshit. Your personal behaviour and reaction to things is based upon your entire life experience (and some genetic inheritance of course). For instance, someone who has been the victim of a violent crime will shy away from violence in the future. A very blunt example, but it happens more in a more subtle way all the time. That's essentially how we form personalities, everything you see and experience in your life forms what is "you".

Unfortunatly, most people don't make the connection that TV and print make up an increasing larger proportion of everyones experiences, and we are subconsciously sucking in the information, which is later recalled without knowing that a) you are drawing upon a past experience and b) that that it is a false experience.

Yeah, that's... um...

So anyway, Cory, any thoughts on the LXG movie? (Or, for the book-learnin' snobs, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.) As I was watching the online trailer, I couldn't help think that this movie will be like a 90-minute ad for perpetual copyright. "This is what happens, people!"

Man Of Steal!

So let me get this straight: Lois tricks some poor jerk into getting murdered, just because he was selling unlicensed Superman merchandise?

I must have missed that whole "Infringe a trademark, face the death penalty" debate.

Welcome to the propaganda of the 21st century.

Yeah, the Spawn/Cerebus crossover is great for yucks given McFarlane's subsequent history on respecting creators...

Oh, and LXG may or may not suck, but "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman" serves as an excellent argument for the public domain.

So will Lois be facing jail time over this? Depraved indifference, conspiracy to commit murder or somesuch?

Ok...who wants to be first to start a CafePress shop with a line of Flashman items?

Edited by author 02-19-2003 04:12 PM
"Oh, and LXG may or may not suck, but 'The League of Extraordinary Gentleman' serves as an excellent argument for the public domain."

I agree, of course, but even if the movie flops, a thousand times* more people will see it than will ever read the comic.

*Results not scientific

So he's mistaken about Superman being in the public domain. Got it. So the significant other of our greatest symbol of crime-fighting moral rectitude doesn't just inform him that Superman is not in the public domain and ask him to stop? She has him whacked instead. I'm gonna have to rethink my support of the S-man.