Associatively Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

"Me and Nature are two"---Woody Allen.....like me and comics...
but on books, I'm around 1.3 or 1.4

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Was confused. Thought it was a review of the new mutants comic book series
> but it's a book book without the pitchers. Thanks for pointing me to it
> Mark. http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/the-social-justice-league
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> from a PACIFIC STANDARD magazine review of THE NEW MUTANTS:
>>
>> When DC Comics writer Gardner Fox debuted the Justice League in 1960
>> in the Brave and the Bold #28, the series was an inventive and
>> subversive choice for Cold War America. Amid the rise of the security
>> state, McCarthyism’s domestic panic, and communist-containment
>> policies abroad, the comic re-envisioned America’s saviors as a band
>> of international immigrants and exiles. Most members of the Justice
>> League worked for the state; yet they were often misunderstood or
>> oppressed by the very organization they believed in. In “nearly every
>> instance” of conflict between the JLA and official representatives of
>> the law, Fawaz writes, the government was portrayed as a bumbling,
>> bureaucratic dinosaur. This wasn’t the only sly anti-administration
>> subtext for discerning readers. The villains were often portrayed as
>> evil because they were abusing scientific talents to develop weapons
>> for the military—a moral argument against the military-industrial
>> complex that preceded Eisenhower’s famous speech about the associated
>> economic perils.
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