Firestorm, The Political Man

In the now cancelled series featuring the "new" Firestorm, the writer, Stuart Moore, injected an anti-war advertisement in the 30th issue. From Comic Glutton, here's an excerpt of the speech:

When my father was young, they had a saying: "Never trust anyone over thirty." It sounds silly – but it was a very serious response to the times. Back then, a group of older men had a stranglehold on the federal government...

Today, a new group of men controls all the branches of the federal government. Men of power ... They lie to us about weapons of mass destruction. They ruin crucial government agencies with shameless cronyism, then watch as our cities flood and die. They preach morality while they steal our jobs and bankrupt our future, little by little – all the while grabbing more and more money for themselves.

Sigh. Again, another anti-war clown who won't look at any of the revelations that were made. It's been at least four years now, and still, we have writers who live in astounding states of self-denial.

It's also a far cry from back in the Bronze/Iron Age, when Firestorm, while there were stories involving political themes, was far from being as anti-war as this tommyrot is. Not to mention that, while Lorraine Reilly, the one being forced to utter that garbage, is the daughter of a senator, it's still far beyond her to go that route. I guess you could say this is another reason for the current series' undoing.