Red Or Blue

I keep coming back to the point that was made the other day about looking into things to closely. The talk of the election and Sarah Palin also popped into my head. This got me to thinking of comic books again(big surprise). A comic book company called DC Comics has recently started a story arc where Superman is being questioned and goaded about which side he sits on in the political spectrum. I don't know but to me this seems like their looking into the comics a little to closely if you ask me. Comics aren't real, they are fictional stories read for entertainment purposes not to know whether or not their Democratic or Republican. Don't ask me why but for some reason intentional fallacy also came to mind.The dictionary says,"Intentional fallacy–noun
(in literary criticism) an assertion that the intended meaning of the author is not the only or most important meaning; a fallacy involving an assessment of a literary work based on the author's intended meaning rather than on actual response to the work. I'm sure that the man the man who invented Superman didn't original intend for him to journey into the arena of politics. This is just what modern day writers have thought might interest readers. To say that characters are not made for political reasons or motives isn't always true either. Captain America is a prime symbol for politics in comic books. Captain America was created around the time of WWII as a result of the war with Germany. In the beginning of the Captain America story he even physically fought Hitler. As different things threatened or happened in America the Captain America comic reflected these events. He dealt with everything from Russia to the Civil Rights movement. This is a great example of art imitating life.