Acquiesce, Chapter 04, Page 29 (#0111)
Aug16
“Freeze!”
I’ve noticed all my comics have a lot of violence. And yet I’m totally against it in real life. Coincidence?
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A constructive outlet for aggression maybe? Either way, you’ve got a good action story going, keep it up and get ‘er dun!! ;P
It’s better to write/read about it than live it. Violence, the macabre, building and releasing tension, thrills and scares in the horror genre make us feel more alive in large part because we can walk away from it, it’s vicarious.
Isaac Asimov said, “violence is the last resort of the incompetent.”
A professor once told me that words can have tremendous impact, and to be a writer means having the courage to take the risks and the responsibility to accept the consequences of the words we choose.
If it leads to thought, debate, conversation, growth, if it contributes something to your genre or to literature in general, or if it entertains and brings joy, particularly to one’s self, then it has value.
Thanks!
I abhor violence in the real world. But I love watching action movies. Almost all of my stories, whether comics or otherwise, seem to include it in various amounts. And for various reasons.
In Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon said, “Paranoids are not paranoid because they’re paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves… deliberately into paranoid situations.” I think if you swap “paranoid” with “violent” it works just as well.
Except for stopping Hitler, Stalin, and a bunch of smaller murderous dictators, killers and such, violence never solved anything.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Mahatma Gandhi