Comics Talk

I saw a comic strip from a comics of a US based company where homophobia is addressed, and I realised that even the US based comics are not readable anymore. The comics was of a superhero and of characters majority of children associate with worldwide. Comics are primarily for children, and then for adult comics enthusiasts, like me for example. All comics need to do is preach respecting everyone despite their class, creed, gender and sexual orientation, and the comics back in the 90s did this job well. Indian comics is anyway decimated though the corona period saw resurgence of comics, due to people being free and revisiting their forgotten interests, and Indian comics publishers are cashing on it, as they should, by reprinting old comics for the sake of nostalgia of 80s and 90s comic book readers and collectors. Given the population of the country they are not many in number but they are significant enough to give business to a small comic company to make it last a little more longer. Novel concepts in Indian comics are dead which is kind of funny as early 2010s saw a lot of new comic book companies with novel concepts and new form of storytelling which died down as soon as it started by mid 2010s. People have overgrown reading. I have anyway read very few foreign comics other than Phantom and James Bond and a bit of Superman, but I know that foreign comics back in the 90s and 80s were good, in fact great, and most importantly free of woke propaganda. Wokeness in comics is a sort of grooming of kids and not in a good way. Instead of wokeness it could have been about morality and righteousness and compassion, like it was in the 90s, 80s and before that. I excuse nationalist propaganda in comics of any country because it's only fair, but propaganda promoting gender confusion and promoting homosexuality is a no no for me. I have nothing against homosexuality, it's just that I feel sexuality of a person is his personal business and kids should not be dragged into it until they are mature enough to objectively think about it, anything else amounts to grooming. In my time back in the day, Indian comics freely available and were kick-ass, at least for the kid me. I recently came across graphic novels based on HP Lovecraft's work by a creator called Gou Tanabe and my first impulse was to buy them, but had to stop myself as ladies at home think of comics and graphic novels as trash, God forbid a man has hobbies, and I have to be tactical in ordering comics and graphic novels at home. Also, one major reason was that these graphic novels were very expensive and I really had to consider my wallet for ordering them. I also like adult specific erotic comics, not like porn or Hentai, but actual erotic comics with solid stories and good art. Druuna is only erotic comics that has standards both in terms of stories and art, though I have come across a very few more in recent time. Though I realise that I can only read erotic comics online and can't have it in my collection because of my wife judging me for it. I never got on the manga train, but I think it might be time to give it a chance, I'm sure that it would be better than Western comics at least in today's times when the Western comics are peddling woke propaganda.