tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360506062642185261.post3858868083597123881..comments2024-03-25T23:13:39.138-04:00Comments on Fantasy Ink: Has-Been, by Wally Woodtomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14100881728689912157noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360506062642185261.post-52852769859511998452011-05-14T23:41:17.207-04:002011-05-14T23:41:17.207-04:00"It's just missing a girl in a tight spac..."It's just missing a girl in a tight space suit."<br /><br />Unless you're a paedophile!<br /><br />Saying that, my first thought reading this was how prescient it was of what's actually starting to happen now, where the military're basically recruiting young hot shot video game players to operate their spy and attack drones in battle fields thousands of miles away from the operator's location.<br /><br />Then I suddenly saw it from the point of view of, say, Wally Wood himself, a man like many young men of his time who'd not only participated in real life war situations but must've seen countless 18 year olds - and indeed much younger kids pretending to be 18 - killed for reasons they only vaguely understood at best.<br /><br />In which case it might've struck him as a parody of how all leaders of every national, political, religious and ideological shade end up sacrificing on the altar of their obsessions precisely the children they claim to be building their brave new worlds for.borkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05042275165058229970noreply@blogger.com