I like Hellboy as played by Ron Perlman. I like Hellboy way better
than I do Batman, Superman or any of the Avengers. Hellboy isn't as thick and
serious — as deep down turgid — as Hulk, Thor etc.. There's humor to him, and a
bit of whimsy.
So I respect his opinion a lot more than I would that of
Ultron, Odin, Black Widow, Iron Man or the rest of that clunky, corporate bunch.
And I'm not surprised in the least to learn that he detests Trump keenly, though
it's nice to have it in his own words. Asked, for example, if he'd like to play
Trump in a film, Perlman asked back, what's to play: "There’s nothing
there to explore. He’s one-dimensional, and he’s not clever. He’d be very
boring to play.”
Anything else Hellboy would like to point out about Scrump? Well,
that he's "normalized things that are unconscionable, lies every time he
speaks and has desensitized us to what a lie and the truth is. There is nothing
to teach our children to aspire to, the ideals that are truly American. He’s
got it all muddled. He’s supporting Nazis, he supports all of the things that
autocrats support, destroying the credibility of the free press. He’s managing
to speak to the lowest form of discourse. And he’s parlayed this into this hold
he has on the GOP, and shown there is no patriotism in the GOP."
As for the cast of characters Trump has promoted or tried to
— that band of fascists with American characteristics — “It seems for him
the only way to maintain full control is to tear down everything that exists.
The head of the EPA, he puts in a guy who protects polluters. The Treasury is
supposed to protect the economy, and the guy he names protects the one-percent.
Housing, he’s got this fucking idiot, I don’t know if he’s asleep or
awake."
Note well the Marvel, DC and Disney big shots stay mum.
But Hellboy, he can't help it, he speaks out.
Hellboy has no dual identity. He can't crawl back into Clark
Kent or Steve Bannon or Bruce Wayne. He's Hellboy 24/7/365, with his tail, his
horns and his sweet love of cats.
Hellboy has fought all kinds of heinous entities, the
wonderfully named Wink, for example, in Hellboy II, and Sammael, the Seed of
Destruction, Hound of Resurrection in the original. Hellboy has defended the
Earth from Rasputin and monsters that hail from the Lovecraft dimension of evil, older things, just waiting for the conjunction of
forces that would let them break through. Hellboy has even defended the earth
from Hellboy , shearing off his budding Hellboy horns when need be.
But you get the feeling even Hellboy and Perlman are debating
how to deal with the "cardboard cutout piece of shitfuck," we in 2018
call president. How is it
possible? How could it happen? This question brings us to history, politics, philosophy
and what may extend beyond these disciplines — comics.
Harvey, you are THE MAN. And, experience less shame in Rammstein fandom. Marx Brothers via East Germany. As a kid, I was warned that comics would rot my brain. True that. Don't understand the profile thing. May I say "friend?" Said, "please choose a profile." They polite.
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