Comic books have grown tame! There was a time when they dealt with truly cosmic issues … as this Superman cover from 1949 demonstrates:
Also, check out this cover gallery for more edgy tales from the Loisandclarkverse!
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
So is kryptonite the secret to smashing the patriarchy, then?
That said, he doesn’t look so comfortable with the situation.
To be fair, there is quite a bit of brutal matriarchy in the series.
Someone else will make the kleenex link/joke.
And to think, as a kid I used to pin a red towel on my back and wear my underwear outside my pants. Egad…
Wanting to stop a Pat Boone song from becoming a hit very nearly redeems Superman in my eyes for being a long-standing shill for the establishment.
The cover collection over at Super Dickery is even funnier.
What is all this business about “or”?