tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post6783088121962740259..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Another Native likes SCALPEDRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-28162075109820668742009-12-11T17:57:12.959-08:002009-12-11T17:57:12.959-08:00People are clever enough to dinstinguish between r...People are clever enough to dinstinguish between reality and fiction? Not according to this posting: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.bluecorncomics.com/2008/05/scalped-fans-cant-tell-difference.html" rel="nofollow">SCALPED fans can't tell the difference</a>Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-63654595752062784932009-09-18T10:47:59.696-07:002009-09-18T10:47:59.696-07:00Hi Rob,
you have been a bit hard on Scalped I thin...Hi Rob,<br />you have been a bit hard on Scalped I think. Comics are underground art. I don´t care much about if they are politically correct, as it is art. Art is free and is not obliged to depict reality or spare people violence, especially if it is noir. I mean I would like to tell our political leaders and extremists to spare us any more hatred and war, but not a comic book writer. The dialogue in Scalped is quite clever: many issues have been raised that white America does not even bother to think about. I think the story is rather comple. It is on young people´s perspectives and responsibilities on political activism, on losing a child, on desperation and on grannys watching the young folks suffer and stray from the right path, for starters. That is a lot. I´m a woman living in Europe and I have never been on a rez, still I know that reality there is probably not like in a comic book, still how many Hollywood movies depict the average American life. You have to read American Splendor if you want that. People are clever enough to dinstinguish between reality and fiction. And Natives are people and as such they can be anything: husslers, whores, crimes bosses, spiritual people, lovers, mothers, drug addicts. There is no wrong way to depict them, as you cannot pigeonhole them. I love the series and usually I don´t care too much about comics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com