Why blame comics for social failure?

Comics sometimes get blame for social failure. There are many reasons, but one of the main reason might be the fact that a lot of young age of children are reading comics. Especially, when they read violence and graphic comics, they are not old enough to justify reality and fantasy. Some of the comics contain crimes, criminal stories, sex, rape, violence, horror, terror, marriage, and divorce. Those ideas are too soon and irregular for the kids. All the informations and stories could be shown as normal everyday life routine in comics, if young children read those comics and miss understand the separation between right or wrong, it could be a complete disaster. Not only for the kids, but also comics reflect what is going on society. People often think what is going on on comics are the trend of the society that we are living in.

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J Chambliss said…

This is a solid point, but you need to add some supporting information to fully realize your analysis.

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Why blame comics for societal failure?

Why blame comics for societal failure? Society blamed comics for the societal failures because it was a fairly new industry, and as things seemed to go “wrong” they figured it must be comic books. When a child grew up during the war, his father was probably killing people and the military and his mother was probably making things in factories to help kill the opposition. The only things kids had to “babysit” them was comic books, and they read many different kinds. So when kids starting acting differently in this new generation the figured it must be the comic books. Society didn’t want to believe it may have been the internal and external scars war causes on the soldiers and their families. Also the fact that young unattended children are reading these comics may not be able to differentiate between fantasy and reality. When society fails it always needs a scapegoat then it was comic books next it was rock and roll. Society naturally resist change.

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