I wish I were more into superhero comics
I am too lazy/occupied with other things to bother with them much of the time, but I feel like I should be into them given their current cultural dominance.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Fucking awesome.
Dr Two Apes all the way down
The reverse is way common though
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Having said that i don't remember ever meeting anyone who wouldn't read any genre fiction.
I think you can figure out how I feel about these attitudes without me having to spell them out.
There's a somewhat infamous Guardian article where one of their op-ed people proclaimed that she had stopped reading fiction because the stories weren't about real people and that people should be obliged to read non-fiction because they need to know about how the world really works and facts and I can't even pretend any of this isn't remarkably pretentious and more indicative of the person's issues than anything with fiction as an art-form (or non-fiction, for that matter). I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek saying that it comes out of the "all good fiction must be as realistic as possible" mentality, but honestly, it's a weirdly similar mindset. It's like how certain hardline socialist groups in England saw punk music as a revolutionary tool but had no real understanding of the culture or the musical landscape: These people seem to understand writing about "the truth" in the same literalistic terms.
That second article was the one I was thinking of, and it is literally those two dubious views of fiction verbatim coming from the same person in the same thinkpiece. It's repellant.