tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389451534474587957.post1211795278430123638..comments2009-05-12T02:34:36.953-07:00Comments on That long black cloud: New York, Green Lantern, Pink Floyd and Daria!Zrakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494602065943923135noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389451534474587957.post-27728844092586827772009-02-02T18:15:00.000-08:002009-02-02T18:15:00.000-08:00It's funny that you use a comic with the character...It's funny that you use a comic with the character the Green Arrow on the front. Talk about dissident cool! The Green Arrow is one of the more interesting comic book characters because he was diametrically opposed to some of the ideologies of other superheroes. He was a socialist in his most benign moments, and was actually socially aware. He was all of this at a time when mainstream culture did not agree.<BR/><BR/>Antiquing... can be cool, I guess. You've got to be in the right crowd, I s'pose.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07331961951316180787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389451534474587957.post-87625449261678967612009-01-26T11:19:00.000-08:002009-01-26T11:19:00.000-08:00Comics always had a certain appeal to me because I...Comics always had a certain appeal to me because I could not read very well and they had pictures. I was and am utterly in love with the story line of batman. Now that I am in college I am able to find others with such enthusiasm. I have recently started to jump into the other more famous now popular DC Comics such as V for Vendetta and Watchman. So my liking for comics has two sides one is to understand cool and the second is nostalgia.<BR/><BR/>Daria was my hero because she could say all the things that were wrong with high school. Her comments and sarcastic humor brought to light all of the ideas that were lingering in the back of my throat but I had not the nerve to say. Watching Daria was a social commentary on what high school had become for many other students such as me a cliché. It really analyzed how high school had its own barbaric and maybe even victory aristocratic feel. I was a poor kid at a rich kid’s school so that is just how I saw it.Zrakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02494602065943923135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389451534474587957.post-15571708959140613592009-01-26T09:29:00.000-08:002009-01-26T09:29:00.000-08:00Nostalgia is a tricky thing. Think about why nosta...Nostalgia is a tricky thing. Think about why nostalgia ads cool to the things you mentioned. Is it because they have since become cool for being old or because they were cool when they first existed?<BR/><BR/>Also, Daria as you hero in high school. Not sure I would have guessed that.fjohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06827891221669580321noreply@blogger.com