So, my article for Blog@Newsarama turned out to be something I hadn’t even thought of writing to begin with; I would up asking a more ‘metaphilosophical’ friend of mine without any elaboration if it was possible for humans to clone a god. I mean, that seems a little above and beyond the call of duty, doesn’t it? As someone cooler than me said, ‘If we cloned Jesus, could the clone feed the masses with just a loaf of bread and some fish?’ As Tony Stark himself would say, “Oh, come on!”
No. My friend without hesitation answered, “Of course.” He believed that gods only have what will than humanity gives them (which is actually right according to Merriam-Webster; ‘require human worship’ being in the definition of a god). We got to talking and I thought that was such a cool thing to think about, so much more than the depress-o-rama of the issue itself, I thought I’d give Civil War a different type of introspection. I mean, we all know characterization is out in left field and Millar doesn’t seem to be getting any point across besides ‘Hey, I wanted this scene because I thought it would look cool’ (apparently, that’s why we get a giant black man in chains and tarps being lowered into a grave. He saw a picture of an elephant being buried and thought it looked interesting. Good going there, guy.) but what about the higher idea, so to speak, about mankind overeaching by creating a god in their own image?
This isn’t their friend. This isn’t a part of a greater mythology of an ancient culture. This is a weapon.
Yeah, I probably should have written a little more but I figured less would be more in this case and people would jump in with what they think. And the masses have spoken! Everything from being turned off from the Fantastic Four and Iron Man characters to Millar crapping on the book to people wanting things fixed to people wanting things not to be fixed to none of this matters.
It’s hard to see the greater picture when you’re so mired down by the colors.
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Interesting.
So, my article for Blog@Newsarama turned out to be something I hadn’t even thought of writing to begin with; I would up asking a more ‘metaphilosophical’ friend of mine without any elaboration if it was possible for humans to clone a god. I mean, that seems a little above and beyond the call of duty, doesn’t it? As someone cooler than me said, ‘If we cloned Jesus, could the clone feed the masses with just a loaf of bread and some fish?’ As Tony Stark himself would say, “Oh, come on!”
No. My friend without hesitation answered, “Of course.” He believed that gods only have what will than humanity gives them (which is actually right according to Merriam-Webster; ‘require human worship’ being in the definition of a god). We got to talking and I thought that was such a cool thing to think about, so much more than the depress-o-rama of the issue itself, I thought I’d give Civil War a different type of introspection. I mean, we all know characterization is out in left field and Millar doesn’t seem to be getting any point across besides ‘Hey, I wanted this scene because I thought it would look cool’ (apparently, that’s why we get a giant black man in chains and tarps being lowered into a grave. He saw a picture of an elephant being buried and thought it looked interesting. Good going there, guy.) but what about the higher idea, so to speak, about mankind overeaching by creating a god in their own image?
This isn’t their friend. This isn’t a part of a greater mythology of an ancient culture. This is a weapon.
Yeah, I probably should have written a little more but I figured less would be more in this case and people would jump in with what they think. And the masses have spoken! Everything from being turned off from the Fantastic Four and Iron Man characters to Millar crapping on the book to people wanting things fixed to people wanting things not to be fixed to none of this matters.
It’s hard to see the greater picture when you’re so mired down by the colors.