Taxation is Theft.

Originally posted by samhain
Is Klaw a 17 year old who has just smoked their first joint? 'Tax is bad, we should do away with what is a relatively minor inconvenience for most competent people in spite of what it actually provides to the vast majority including the vulnerable.'

I'll be waiting for you here in 1998 and we can discuss alien abductions.

Couldn't I also paint a parody of the lefty commie college kids that thinks helping the underdog' justifies robin hood like stealing ?

Pretty boring schtick, I stick to making arguments.

Points for making me laugh on the abduction joke tho.

Didn't really see boot strap conservatism as a central theme in Atlas Shrugged. It seemed more of promoting the idea that government is a poor regulatory agency, and individual entrepreneurs are where progress comes from.

But I'm no expert on Objectivism, that's only what I got from the story.

Steve Ditko was deep into it though. His Hawk and Dove and The Question were steeped in the philosophy. As was the creative himself, who refused to compromise his vision when pressured to do so, and so quit.

You have to admire a man who's willing to put his money where his mouth is.

Originally posted by cdtm
Didn't really see boot strap conservatism as a central theme in Atlas Shrugged. It seemed more of promoting the idea that government is a poor regulatory agency, and individual entrepreneurs are where progress comes from.

But I'm no expert on Objectivism, that's only what I got from the story.

Steve Ditko was deep into it though. His Hawk and Dove and The Question were steeped in the philosophy. As was the creative himself, who refused to compromise his vision when pressured to do so, and so quit.

You have to admire a man who's willing to put his money where his mouth is.

Originally posted by cdtm
Didn't really see boot strap conservatism as a central theme in Atlas Shrugged. It seemed more of promoting the idea that government is a poor regulatory agency, and individual entrepreneurs are where progress comes from.

But I'm no expert on Objectivism, that's only what I got from the story.

Steve Ditko was deep into it though. His Hawk and Dove and The Question were steeped in the philosophy. As was the creative himself, who refused to compromise his vision when pressured to do so, and so quit.

You have to admire a man who's willing to put his money where his mouth is.

Being a lefty artist isn't courageous or novel, being a right wing artist however... Mmmm yummy.

Originally posted by Klaw
And if you don't think it is, what happens if you don't pay it?

Since it's not theft, it's voluntary.

Right?

Naw, that's dumb.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Steve Ditko was a right wing loon. Mr A. Is hilarious, Frank Miller also has some disturbing ideas.

If he was, that didn't come through in Ditko's work. His Question I found highly relatable.

He was on a team with Batman, and came out and admitted "What am I even doing here? There is literally nothing I bring to this teamup when you have freakin BATMAN."

Frank Miller I'll give you, he's out of his mind. Holy Terror was just ridiculous.

But Mark Miller could bring the left wing crazy, he did Wanted, and some comic where George W Bush's daughter has her womb booby trapped with a bomb if she tried getting an abortion from her fathers sperm, or something sick..

Originally posted by ilikecomics
Being a lefty artist isn't courageous or novel, being a right wing artist however... Mmmm yummy.

Ditiko was a lefty?

Sure didn't seem that way to me. More libertarian, with a right wing bias.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Steve Ditko was a right wing loon. Mr A. Is hilarious, Frank Miller also has some disturbing ideas.

Frank Miller is trash. His work sucks. Daredevil is a secret ninja. Batman is a violent psychopath who loves guns. It is like he does not enjoy the characters he is writing, so he turns them into something wildly different.

Originally posted by truejedi
Naw, that's dumb.

I agree, forcing people to pay under threat of violence is dumb.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Frank Miller is trash. His work sucks. Daredevil is a secret ninja. Batman is a violent psychopath who loves guns. It is like he does not enjoy the characters he is writing, so he turns them into something wildly different.

Do you even read comics?

Originally posted by cdtm
Ditiko was a lefty?

Sure didn't seem that way to me. More libertarian, with a right wing bias.

Oh definitely, I was congratulating him for his views.
They anticipating the idea that left wing artists are courageous or interesting.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Frank Miller is trash. His work sucks. Daredevil is a secret ninja. Batman is a violent psychopath who loves guns. It is like he does not enjoy the characters he is writing, so he turns them into something wildly different.

Yeah, but every comic street is a secret ninja. 🙂

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Frank Miller is trash. His work sucks. Daredevil is a secret ninja. Batman is a violent psychopath who loves guns. It is like he does not enjoy the characters he is writing, so he turns them into something wildly different.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
I've liked some of his work, but it's difficult to disagree with what you are saying. I could argue he deconstructs and reimagines etc. But isn't that really just what you are saying?

More like disregards and reconstructs. He is only popular with edgelords and incels, because his work is gratuitously violent and casts all women as whores.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
More like disregards and reconstructs. He is only popular with edgelords and incels, because his work is gratuitously violent and casts all women as whores.

That's when he went off the deep end, along with tripe like Holy Terror. Batman Year One and The Dark Knight Returns are like Knight and day from the DKR sequels and All Star Batman and Robin.

The Dark Knight Returns is awesome.

You guys have no taste.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
A lot of his work really does fit that description. All star Batman springs to mind.

All Star Batman is well after he lost his marbles. I still loved it for its stupidity, but it is not a good book, nor is it indicative of his best work.

I really liked Daredevil and Batman Year One. I think they're really good. I'm not a fan of his "Future Bastard Batman" work though. Not because I think it's good or bad; I just don't like the direction he took with the character(s).

Originally posted by ilikecomics
Think you meant oxy moron, sir.

This is the definition of non sequitur:

a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.

Which doesn't make sense because I was talking about libertarian scholarship.

Originally posted by -Pr-
All Star Batman is well after he lost his marbles. I still loved it for its stupidity, but it is not a good book, nor is it indicative of his best work.

I really liked Daredevil and Batman Year One. I think they're really good. I'm not a fan of his "Future Bastard Batman" work though. Not because I think it's good or bad; I just don't like the direction he took with the character(s).

Batman Beyond Bruce is best Old Man Batman.