Lessons From the Multiverse: Political Comics vs Political Parodies
4Hey guys, I've decided to introduce a new segment to my channel. Lessons from the Multiverse! Where I clarify and discuss things that I feel need to be explained. It could be like what the Multiverse is, it could be how Marvel's Time Travel USED to work, etc etc. But for the first video, we're gonna get a little more real world.
For this first Lesson I'm going to talk about the difference between a Political Comic (or a comic that shoehorns Politics in it) vs a Political Parody! Why? Cause from what I've seen lately, it appears some people just lump the two together.
A Political Parody is, if done right, where the book is either parodying something else mixing it in with politics (My Hero Magademia, Barack the Barbarian, etc etc) or it takes something that sounds so ridiculous in the real world and exaggerates it (Trump's Space Force, Calvin Ellis Superman although that one is played straight) but either way the politics is mix in with the obscurity of it all!
A political comic is where a political message us the main focus of the story and, usually, is done with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Some are able to get it to work if they handle both sides...however lately that's few and far in between. A badly done political parody can also just default into being a political comic (the AOC comics for example)
I go into more details but I hope people are able to learn something from this.