The Desert Peach #2, Page 3 (3 Comments)Comments on: http://www.desert-peach.com/comic/the-desert-peach-2-page-3/ Chronicling the Adventures of the Gay Younger Brother of The Desert Fox. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:12:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Donna Barr http://www.desert-peach.com/comic/the-desert-peach-2-page-3/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Donna Barr Sun, 03 May 2009 19:55:23 +0000 http://www.desert-peach.com/the-desert-peach-2-page-3/#comment-62 Come to think of it, one of the stories in Life In Pictures does offer an artist using compromise to keep the warriors away. It's shown being passed on in the family, in at least one place. But compared to the use of violence as a cure or a conversion, it barely surfaces. Come to think of it, one of the stories in Life In Pictures does offer an artist using compromise to keep the warriors away. It’s shown being passed on in the family, in at least one place. But compared to the use of violence as a cure or a conversion, it barely surfaces.

]]> By: Donna Barr http://www.desert-peach.com/comic/the-desert-peach-2-page-3/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Donna Barr Sun, 03 May 2009 18:07:39 +0000 http://www.desert-peach.com/the-desert-peach-2-page-3/#comment-61 I agree they're great stories, and they make it very clear how violence is passed along in a family and/or a society. But they don't offer any solutions. I'm not saying they should -- that's not the point. But it's one of the reasons I don't follow superheroes. Ultimately, violence is the only real solution in that genre. When I was a block watch coordinator in Bremerton, we had a word for kids: "bullet magnets." We emphasized the use of anything but guns for protection, because bullets just seem to head right for women and kids, no matter whom they're intended for. Maybe it's like mosquitoes -- hunting a different carbon dioxide level (tongue-in-cheek comment, of course). Once, at the San Diego Comicon, I stopped to examine a well-done diorama of WWII battle scene -- a village destroyed by war. There were lots of dead soldiers but not one dead woman or child, or civilian male or animal. I said, "This is good, but it's incomplete. Where are the dead civilians?" The builder looked at me blankly. I agree they’re great stories, and they make it very clear how violence is passed along in a family and/or a society. But they don’t offer any solutions. I’m not saying they should — that’s not the point. But it’s one of the reasons I don’t follow superheroes. Ultimately, violence is the only real solution in that genre. When I was a block watch coordinator in Bremerton, we had a word for kids: “bullet magnets.” We emphasized the use of anything but guns for protection, because bullets just seem to head right for women and kids, no matter whom they’re intended for. Maybe it’s like mosquitoes — hunting a different carbon dioxide level (tongue-in-cheek comment, of course).

Once, at the San Diego Comicon, I stopped to examine a well-done diorama of WWII battle scene — a village destroyed by war. There were lots of dead soldiers but not one dead woman or child, or civilian male or animal. I said, “This is good, but it’s incomplete. Where are the dead civilians?” The builder looked at me blankly.

]]> By: Gill http://www.desert-peach.com/comic/the-desert-peach-2-page-3/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Gill Sun, 03 May 2009 16:13:42 +0000 http://www.desert-peach.com/the-desert-peach-2-page-3/#comment-60 Eisner used his art to tell stories well, but these stories have that explicit "violence as control" mentality that is hinted at in a lot of superhero comics. It's one of the reasons I'm such a fan of the Peach. Eisner used his art to tell stories well, but these stories have that explicit “violence as control” mentality that is hinted at in a lot of superhero comics. It’s one of the reasons I’m such a fan of the Peach.

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