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I think the issue is muddled by a difference between fiction and reality, and an author, rightwing or left or whatever, being able to not write their own opinion into all their fiction. I used to think Byrne must be left and relaxed, but the last few years of his comments have kicked that notion out of my head. If 'Fury' (the MAX book) had been by an author I'd never encountered before, I'd probably not have read it as satire, but straightforward and badly done... at least, up until the last issue. I refuse to read real-world anything into a Larry Hamma comic, these days; don't think he's addressing the real world, just (trying to be) entertaining. Warren Ellis, as a satirical utopianist commonly infuses a real-world message into his works. The sexual politics of Chuck Dixon comics turn me off faster than his, er, governmental right/left/dem/rep whatever-you-call-em professional-politics.
But you can't assume because person X writes book Y, that they believe anything of the plot or out of a character's mouth. |
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