Media Philosophy

I read a Spiderman & Captain America comic book last night (just a short one). I really didn't ever know the story of Captain America - I just remember that I had an action figure because my mom & dad couldn't find me a Spiderman & thought Captain America was close enough... Anyway, he was a soldier in World War 2 who was given a serum to make him a super-soldier, but the formula for the serum was never duplicated & the guy who came up with it died, so Captain America was the only one. After being a hero in World War 2, Captain America was frozen in a glacier in the Artic which held him in suspended animation for about 30 years. Anyway, in the present he was telling Spidey that back during World War 2 it was easier to be a superhero because you knew who the good guys & bad guys were & what you were fighting for, & today it's hard to tell. As "Boris the Butcher" (Russian hitman on The Man Who Knew Too Little) said, "I like being butcher! At least you know who you are killing, & why." There is great philosophy to consider in comic books & movies if you take the time to think about them ... If you can find it, read Batman: Absolution. It doesn't come to the right conclusion (like the movie Pleasantville, but kind of to the opposite extreme), but it's good to think about these things.