People watch with horror as the planes crash into the WTC towers. Fire burns. Buildings collapse. Mass hysteria. Evacuations, police sirens blaring, news sites swamped, a stunned population tied to their TV sets.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how to say this without it sounding flip, if not grotesque, but that’s life in a comic book universe<\/i>. Buildings collapse, planes crash, hundreds die (off-screen) on a regular basis. Pick up any copy of Avengers, Fantastic Four, Justice League, Green Lantern.<\/p>\n
How do you survive in such an environment? Not just physically, but emotionally?<\/p>\n
Y’know, this may seem odd, but comic books have never seemed as unrealistic as right this moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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