Grantbridge Street & other misadventures: Steve Ditko. Mr. A # 1.

Sunday, 12 April 2009

Steve Ditko. Mr. A # 1.

This comic fucking rules.

8 comments:

Mark said...: Hard to whack Ditko when he's drawing something he actually cares about.

Great editorial, too. Can't believe we still have to fight the same old battles even now.; 12 April 2009 20:15
Anonymous said...: That is darn heroic. Even if you disagree with Ditko, that guy has some admirable convictions.; 12 April 2009 23:01
Booksteve said...: Always loved that back cover. Seemed to promise more of the type of mainstream MR A stories that we never actually saw!; 13 April 2009 05:30
Artman2112 said...: i LOVE MR A! A hero who espouses Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophic principals and with kick ass art too! Like Rand's novels "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged", these comics just get more relevent with time.; 13 April 2009 06:33
oeconomist.com said...: A notable distinction between Ditko and Rand is that Rand's villains are always damned, and the heroes do nothing to try to redeem them, whereäs Ditko's heroes reach out, and are sometimes successful in saving the villains. As well as Kolb above, I remember reading a story in which a Toohey analogue was pulled back from personal destruction.

Ditko, unlike Rand, also gives his villains an implausible level of self-awareness. Rand held (and I would agree) that evil was made possible exactly by our ability to not think (a notion which is also found in Brunner's The Stone that Never Came Down, and which fits neatly with John Locke's notion of free will). Rather than evading, Ditko's villains produce monologues and soliloquies that display considerable conscious recognition of who is good, who is evil, and why.; 13 April 2009 07:33
Artman2112 said...: yeah i would agree, most "bad" people dont really put that much thought into their "badness" and simply do what they do. Ellsworth Toohey though, he knew EXACTLY what he was! As Rand put it in her notes for Fountainhead "a man who could never be and knew it". But i always felt that because Toohey was obviously incredibly intellgent, that is was not an "impalusable" amount of self-awreness that he possesed. very interesting, Joe Bloke, the blogger that's fun and educational as well!; 13 April 2009 21:40
Mark said...: Man, one Ditko comic and all the Objectionablists come out to play.; 13 April 2009 23:02
Anonymous said...: Sweeeeet! That Mr. A is a badass!; 14 April 2009 20:33

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