The Boys represents everything alluring and ultimately unfulfilling about postmodern ideology.
It tells you that “good and evil” is a lie by the powerful.
The powerful are always “oppressors” and the ultimate goal is to expose them and take their power.
But there’s a major problem…
What do you do after exposing Homelander?
Who fills the vacuum? If power is inherently oppressive, you’ll be rebelling and deconstructing again.
And again…and again…
David Foster Wallace called it living as “third world rebels.” You get stuck in permanent revolution mode. Always cynical. Always living in chaos.
Never building something better. Never aspiring to be Superman, because Superman can’t be trusted.
It’s an ultimately hopeless and nihilistic ideology that ruins lives.
LA JEFA SUPREMA: El creador de Dandadan (Yukinobu Tatsu) confirmó quién es su personaje favorito y la respuesta sorprendió a nadie: Es MOMO AYASE. 👽
Lo interesante es por qué: La comparó directamente con SUPERMAN.
🗣️ "Ella es como Superman. No por volar o tener fuerza, sino porque su sola presencia inspira valor a los demás para no rendirse ante el mal".
Double page spread illustration for a children's book.
Left Page: Minimalist background. Tim is holding a photo of his dad, looking inspired. Text bubble: "I want to draw my dad, cool like SUPERMAN!"
Right Page: A chaotic kitchen scene. Tim's dad is wearing a business suit but with red superhero underwear worn OUTSIDE his trousers and a makeshift cape (a kitchen towel). He is floating slightly off the ground, concentrating hard, shooting silly red "laser beams" from his eyes directly onto a carton of milk in a saucepan on the stove. Smoke is rising from the milk. The kitchen is messy. The magic brush Sora is floating nearby with a confused "loading" symbol on its screen. Tim is peeking from behind a door, eyes wide. Text: "Sora thought hard... ZAP! “Oh my! Dad’s lasers are heating the milk!”"
Style: Whimsical watercolor, dynamic and silly, surreal humor.
--ar 4:3
A copy of the first Superman issue, unearthed by three brothers cleaning out their late mother's attic, netted $9.12 million this month at a Texas auction house which says it is the most expensive comic book ever sold.
📈 “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” supera los 500 millones de dólares en taquilla mundial 🌍 y apunta a rebasar los 650M, dejando atrás a cintas como Superman y Fantastic Four.
En Latinoamérica sumó 29M este fin de semana: México (9.8M), Brasil (4.4M), Perú (2.8M), Argentina (2.2M) y Chile (2.2M).
En EE.UU. debutó con 70M, el mayor estreno para una película de anime en la historia, más del doble que Pokémon: The First Movie.