I've gone to twitter to look at Bob's actual tweets because copying the texts by hand might actually break me.
"The premise is an alt-timeline near-future where the DC characters have aged on semi-normal terms..."
This is literally the most retarded way of saying: "This takes place in its own universe in a future." There was an entire line of DC back in the day called "Elseworlds." It was their equivalent of "What If?" - alt takes on super hero tales. AND IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THE COVER!
Do you see it there, dear reader? I know it might be obscure and hard to spot given that such a big brain like Bobby missed it.
But then I decided to deep dive and check if this dumb ass assessment was Bobby's idea...
The story is set in the near future of the
DC Universe. The new generation of heroes have lost their moral compass, becoming as reckless and violent as the villains they fight. The previous regime of heroes—the
Justice League—returns under dire circumstances, which sets up a battle of the old guard against these uncompromising protectors in a conflict that will define what heroism truly is and determine the future of the planet. -
Wikipedia
Anyway, the above is only
slightly more accurate than Bob - it's at least less off in left field. Let's continue with the smooth brained Bobby.
...meaning the Silver/Golden Age Justice League heroes are retired/resigned to their grandparent years (relative, since some are effectively immortal) while the world is ruined by Awful Punk Kids Gone Wild ...aka **Edgy Xtreme 90s Heroes** (MESSAGE!!!)
This isn't even subtext Bobby is missing. This is outright text in the literal book:
It also figures Bobby misses the subtle dig at Marvel in the story. Back in the day it was a meme/gag that Marvel heroes spent as much time fighting each other as they did the villains. I know Twisted Toyfare Theater had multiple jokes about "oh we just met, time to fight!" This is literally at the start of issue 1 of KC - the heroes are fighting each other out of boredom as much as any cause.
...this turns into an Retro vs Modern and then Order vs Freedom civil war deal when Superman etc come out of retirement to "restore peace by force;" observed by The Spectre (literally God's superhero) and a normal human who portal around because this is (literally) THE END
Again it's hard to explain how dumb this is without just pasting the entire comic. Because the
entire point of it is that the opposing forces are not so simple. Heck by the end of the story there's at least 4 sides to the conflict - Superman's, Batman's, Lex Luthor's, and the newbie heroes is the easiest way to put it. I mean to show you not simple it is:
That's two back-to-back panels. As you can both SEE and READ in the boxes, it's literally case of the modern heroes joining Superman's team.
...it's all exactly as heavy-handed and moralistic as it sounds (Zack Snyder has nothing on this one for Biblical allusion) but it's committed and it all LOOKS spectacular. I have no idea why Gunn et al would be flashing it around as a brand theme now, though
Yeah, part of the conceit of the book is "what if the book or Revelation wasn't about angels and demons, but prophecies about superheroes?" and as autistic as I can be about Biblical scholarship, it is a fascinating premise to think about and the book wholly commits to it. But "heavy-handed"? "Moralistic"?
That is RICH coming from a movie critic who has gone on and on about how "themes" and stuff are more important to a story than plot or characterization. This is like reading a review by Bill Clinton saying, "well the movie just had too much sex for my taste."
I mean heavy-handed in the sense that life rarely has simple answers. Moralistic in that doing the right thing can be a harder choice than simpler answers - like throwing all those who disagree with you into a reeducation camp.
In other words, it's a book Bobby would have done well to learn the "heavy-handed" and "moral" lessons of. Maybe they should have been a bit heavier to get it through his thick skull.
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