Are there any left-wing superheroes?

[dylanredefined]

This was Bosnia 1993

Corporal XXXXXXX (no names he's still in)

who on confronting a Serbian checkpoint took out 3 men by headbutting and punching, because they were - his words - 'Hitler licking fucking Nazi cunts'

I should point out that the men he felled were

a) armed to the fucking teeth

b) huge (well two of them anyway)

c) very much on their home turf and backed up by a tank ( a crap one though)

whereas he was

a) a shortarse

b) missing his rifle - it was in the landy

c) a Middlesborough fan.


Don't think I've ever been so impressed in my life.

Our officer (age 20, not the brightest) had no clue what to do.

Short arse middlesborough fan probably had issuses anyway

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Animal man (the redux anyway) is a super lefty. Save the planet and what not.

 

[In Bloom]

Neither Ceaser nor Getafix, but the international proletariat

 

[JoePolitix]

Neither Ceaser nor Getafix, but the international proletariat

In retrospect I actually think if I'd have been around then I would have critically sided with the modernising Roman Empire against the reactionary tribal system of druids and elders in pre-Roman Gaul.

Down with Asterix!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Marshal Law by Pat Mills is very leftie.

Having just waded through Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition I can say with confidence that whilst Mills is indeed a leftie, Marshal Law himself displays no leanings to the left that I can discern. He just hates superheroes!

 

[Idris2002]

Johnny Alpha would qualify, I think.

 

[rekil]

Having just waded through Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition I can say with confidence that whilst Mills is indeed a leftie, Marshal Law himself displays no leanings to the left that I can discern. He just hates superheroes!

I don't remember posting that - You're correct yes.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I don't remember posting that - You're correct yes.

Mills' leftieness is rarely of an orthodox trotbot kind as well - for example he has praised the work on historical perspectives on war by ex-RCPer James Heartfield.

 

[xenon]

Super Heros are twats anyway.

 

[tommers]

In "Dare" Dan Dare fights Thatcher and the mekon against a backdrop of northern industrial wasteland and the masses being fed soylent green.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Having just waded through Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition I can say with confidence that whilst Mills is indeed a leftie, Marshal Law himself displays no leanings to the left that I can discern. He just hates superheroes!

Was Marshal Law the lead piece in Toxic? I remember loving that when it came out - really liked the hitman series.

Edit: Accident Man

 

[fogbat]

Owen Jones.

 

[youngian]

 

[youngian]

Fuck Batman

 

[JTG]

Can't believe nobody's mentioned these:

Fucking hell, step it up you lot

 

[JTG]

Also: The Supreme Soviets, who had some crossover with the above

Crimson Dynamo, Sputnik, Red Guardian, Vanguard, Ursa Major, Darkstar etc etc

The last three named defected to the US mind

 

[DaveCinzano]

A mere seven years, six months and fifteen days late to the party

http://www.urban75.net/forums/posts/4537247/
http://www.urban75.net/forums/posts/4537250/

 

[DaveCinzano]

Was Marshal Law the lead piece in Toxic? I remember loving that when it came out - really liked the hitman series.

Edit: Accident Man

Was a bit when I heard about Martin Emond

 

[Idris2002]

 

[JTG]

That is going to haunt my nightmares for weeks

 

[fractionMan]

Having just waded through Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition I can say with confidence that whilst Mills is indeed a leftie, Marshal Law himself displays no leanings to the left that I can discern. He just hates superheroes!

Not quite true IMO. He hates "heroes" that turn into arseholes and abuse their powers but has compassion for those that were victims of the state machine that made them. He hates the machine too.

 

[fractionMan]

Hes not left wing though IMO, but a very anti-authoritarian authoritarian. He gets called a fascist a fair bit in the comics iirc. Despite the fact he takes down a few fascists himself (private eye iirc was one - its been a while!)

 

[ska invita]

i hear this is pretty good

is it?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Not quite true IMO. He hates "heroes" that turn into arseholes and abuse their powers but has compassion for those that were victims of the state machine that made them. He hates the machine too.

Whilst he has compassion for some of those who swallowed the propaganda and joined up to become ‘superheroes’ (ie scientifically-enhanced humans) and fight in The Zone, he still hates them. He never stops banging on about it!

Though in some of the later series (eg ‘Hateful Dead’/‘Super Babylon’) he seems oddly inconsistent in his hero hatred (he is very sympathetic towards Razorhead, and teams up with him), and by ‘Secret Tribunal’ with barely any prodding he actually joins a superhero team

 

[fractionMan]

Whilst he has compassion for some of those who swallowed the propaganda and joined up to become ‘superheroes’ (ie scientifically-enhanced humans) and fight in The Zone, he still hates them. He never stops banging on about it!

Though in some of the later series (eg ‘Hateful Dead’/‘Super Babylon’) he seems oddly inconsistent in his hero hatred (he is very sympathetic towards Razorhead, and teams up with him), and by ‘Secret Tribunal’ with barely any prodding he actually joins a superhero team

Ah, I've not read those. I've read the private eye one, the insane asylum one and the public spirit graphic novel. Didn't realise there were more.

He works with that giant bloke who eats ice cream through his muzzle too.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ah, I've not read those. I've read the private eye one, the insane asylum one and the public spirit graphic novel. Didn't realise there were more.

He works with that giant bloke who eats ice cream through his muzzle too.

Kiloton

 

[The39thStep]

Owen Jones time traveller with Terry McCann in the 80s

 

[DotCommunist]

he's not aged a day

 

[DaveCinzano]

Was Marshal Law the lead piece in Toxic? I remember loving that when it came out - really liked the hitman series.

Edit: Accident Man

Pat Mills has confirmed there's a movie about to go into production

‘Doctor Strange’ Actor Scott Adkins Heads To ‘Accident Man’