Saturday, June 14, 2008

Chuck Dixon Defends Comics Industry

The one thing that gripes my wife and I is being forced by the media to push the boundary markers further by exposing the kids to things we didn’t think they were ready for. A single episode of Two and a Half Men caused that show to be pulled from the family viewing schedule. We really don’t need Charlie Sheen’s version of heterosexuality on display, thank you.

There’s far too much sexual material and particularly violent sexual material in these books. I’m a guy who avoids that stuff as much as possible when writing the iconic superheroes. I think you can count on one hand the times I ever showed Dick and Babs in even an innocent romantic clinch during their big romance. Not like another writer who made it clear that Dick Grayson was sleeping around even to the point of showing open condom packages by his bed.

Mainstream superhero comics are meant to reach the broadest base of readers. That includes kids. I know that most of you will use the argument that kids don’t read comics any more. I concede that. But the whole industry acts like it’s a good thing the kids have gone to bed so we can be more adult at our big superhero comic book party.