: But the Legion's draft is peacetime. Maybe I didn't use
: the right word--is "draft" only applicable
: to wartime? Anyway, promising adolescents are
: conscripted in peace or war, as far as we know. If
: they had to recruit the dregs of humanity in wartime,
: we wouldn't see all them unarmed peasants running
: around in civvies.
They did apparently recruit the very young during the Great War, but I don't think they make a habit of it.
: While I understand your distaste about explaining away
: aspects of Myth society through magic, my feelings are
: almost entirely opposed to this. One of my pet peeves
: in fantasy and sci-fi is when a book or movie or
: whatever has some world-shattering idea--like
: human-level AIs or magic--which nevertheless fails to
: influence society at most levels. It's particulary
: noticeable in comic books. You've got a population of,
: say, a few thousand beings who can fly and throw
: mountains and transmute water into gold and so forth.
: Does this affect the economy? Does it affect the
: political structure of nations and the planet as a
: whole? Not really. The superguys just keep threatening
: and saving the planet while life goes on as usual.
: Most of my favorite comics (like those of Ellis,
: Busiek and Morrison) are ones where this isn't the
: case, usually because they aren't part of a massive
: company-owned continuum where every comic has to be
: consistent with every other one and also be close
: enough to the real world that the casual reader will
: become interested in it. In such comics, the existence
: of superpowers changes the world, and keeps changing
: it. And that I find much more interesting and
: reasonable.
What? You didn't mention Miller or Waid? Probably the best example of this Ican think of is Kingdom Come. So-called super-heroes have overrun the world with no ethics to guide them. Ordinary people have fallen into kind of a world-wide depression because they don't really matter anymore. The stop holding the Olympics, etc.
