Finally deleted tiktok because it was storing FIVE GIGS on my phone
The thing about comics books is like. They're for children. And they originated as a response to reactionary fears about urbanization and immigration. Current comics are obsessed with their nostalgia for these things, making them trapped in the cycle of reflecting fascist ideas (to the point of montaging past them because they're so ingrained as to be understood in a couple wordless panels).
But you say this and people who have read too many comic books will bring up the handful of books which try to buck these things, usually unsuccessfully. The exceptions prove the rule. Undoubtedly these are a truly american art form and undoubtedly they can be used to tell other stories, but they just. Aren't. They remain obsessed with telling fascist parables to children.
filter feeding is really funny as a life strategy because it's like, oh yeah here's this group of reduced, simple crustaceans that do it. here's this group of reduced, simple cnidarians. here's this group of reduced, simple molluscs. here's the largest animal on earth. here's this group of reduced, simple chordates.