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Originally Posted by mobertol
I think it's probably just another gimmick to boost flagging sales of comic books. Most kids these days are into other things -my boys have never really read them anyway.
Violence in comic books? The odd "Biff" or "Splat" perhaps is all I can remember...
Tom and Jerry is probably more violent.
If they'd made Captain America gay (since there's a new film due out)-would have been more interesting -would probably have increased their circulation too. Or I am just being cynical old me...
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You know, I used to think that Mary Whitehouse was an idiot..an old fogey, well past her prime, jealous of youth etc...
She used to complain about the 'biff', 'splat' and Tom and Jerry type violence..but I'm beginning to think that this was just the thin end of the wedge.
Only a couple of days ago, a new promo trailer for the latest Hitman game has stirred up controversy, by the gratuitous slow motion violence of killing a few nuns who reveal themselves to be scantily clad stockings/suspenders wearing assassins..nothing like this apparently actually figures in the gameplay..it's just the ad men trying to hook the punters.
(As an aside, once used the old Dennis the Mennis phrase 'Ooo errr' to describe my brother, to which my ex weaving mill working grandmother slapped me round the earhole misinterpreting it as me calling him a whore)