>>86982826It's like this:
Way back in ye olden times comics paid for shit and everyone worked out of New York. This means that whenever you were seeing stories about a societal problem back in the day it was coming from a guy in the shitty part of NYC seeing shit happen. Through the 70's this got super prevalent when comics became "relevant" because a lot of writers were watching post civil rights inner cities go to shit before their eyes and were just incorporating that into their work. Or else if they started out elsewhere they'd take that knowledge with them.
It was the same knowledge back in the golden age. Seigal and Schuster were a couple of poor jewish kids who started out with nothing and ended up with nothing all over again. When you see Superman talk about problems with crime or domestic violence or inequality a lot of it comes from the heart. Whoever wasn't jewish was Irish or whatever other underclass group was writing whatever comic there was that week.
The thing is that modern comics pays REALLY shit and with things costing what they are the only people who can afford to write are sheltered rich boys who've never seen a real problem in their life. So when they try to break down some real issues it's a pantomime done out of ignorance. Whatever their unsolicited opinions on israel are or what their opinions on the transgendered is have no real relevance compared to actual issues gripping America to this day, but they don't know that because they don't go on the streets and socialize with us proles.
