Danger Street Vol. 1

Mmm…this is one of those “a lot going on here” books, not in a good way. Ton of characters, not real clear what’s going on, and I think it becomes kind of an issue when you’ve got 4 different threads and all of them are kind of confusing.

The whole thing where we’re looking at modern Qanon politics through the comics lens doesn’t work for me. The problem I always run into is that in the comics, the Qanon people are kinda right. AND, in a world of gods and supermen, the conspiracy theory mindset does actually make some sense. There’s a whole shitload of space cops with literal magic rings out there. There’s a Source Wall at the edge of the universe. These are things we know about. Time has been traveled and messed with and Death is a Black man who shows up on skis, like with poles and everything. In that universe, wacky ideas about school shootings not really happening are still stupid, but we’d all have to be a lot more forgiving of conspiracy thinking simply due to the sheer numbers of stranger things that HAVE happened.

So it’s A) kind of silly to me that people would pay any attention to low level conspiracies and political intrigue on Earth, and B) presents a worldview that’s totally unreasonable in our world and totally reasonable in the DC comics universe.