DAREDEVIL: Anti-porn activism, cyberspace and morality.

[starwolf_oakley]

Since it seems I can't post anything on this board without causing something of a "dust-up" in the replies, I thought I would post some pages from DAREDEVIL #327 and #329. It features Karen Page as an anti-porn crusader, fears about the new cyberspace and Captain America wondering about 1990's morality.



The guy buying "Playdude" is supposed to look like Tom DeFalco.



This storyline was called "Tree of Knowledge." It took place during the time everyone thought Matt Murdock was dead and a "new" Daredevil was going around in black and red armor. It also explored the then-new world of "cyberspace" and "system hacking." Basically, the days before we used computers to bitch about movies/TV shows/comic books.



This obviously takes place before adult entertainment went "legit" and its stars appeared on talk shows or get VH-1 shows. The funny thing is BORN AGAIN made it seem that Karen was doing the *really* dirty stuff, not the stuff regular New York producers would be "proud" of.

Two issues later...



Can you really say "Teledildonics" in a code-approved mainstream comic book?

Kathy Malper is a character introduced during the "Fall of the Kingpin" storyline. She was a federal prosecutor who didn't mind wearing Boston Red Sox caps and jackets around New York City.



I remember those commercials.





Breaking one laptop caused a supremely powerful BBS to fall apart? Stupid Internet.



Cap thinks more about the "good ol' days."

"TOK" had a series of terrorist attacks designed to bring New York City under martial law. HYDRA wanted to turn the citizens of New York against its government and its superheroes. Wild, huh?

Comments

[halialkers]

Yeah, sure. WWII was good and evil.

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Cap evidently overlooks the little matter that the Western Allies had their Token Evil Teammate in the USSR which did most of the grunt-work and also most of the most horrible fighting. WWII was never a "good" war any more than any other was. Granted, Cap would think so, but any war that has both the Soviets and the Nazis in it by virtue of those two societies being mirror evils and equal to each other in terms of the evil both involved (and Maoism did all its ugly shit in peacetime which along with the higher casualty rates makes it much more blatantly evil than the other two) is de facto Grey and Grey.

[halloweenjack]

"Teledildonics", for crying out loud... it's as if the writer read about six months' worth of Wired at once, and sort of half-understood it.

[lamashtar]

Do you remember which issues these are from? I was gonna post the 2 pages where Cap and DD talk about the internet sometime.

[jlroberson]

Funny that's "Playdude," but Wolverine got to read HUSTLER, by name.