...the "ambiguous" stories just sell better. Comics is a business of low profit margins and publishers can't afford to publish "unambiguous" gosh-darn comics when they don't sell. We know this because it has been tried. Some years ago, DC's Vertigo imprint put out "American Virgin", a book based around an abstinence preacher and how he deals with his fiance's death. No, it wasn't a piss take, it actually treated the main character sympathetically. It got good reviews but it didn't sell and so, it was cancelled at #24. If conservative books sell (such as Bill Willingham's "Fables"
, they get to stick around.
Besides which, this is complaining about a problem that doesn't exist. Superman is no less patriotic than he's ever been (although he no longer feels the need to shout about it every issue) and Batman was always meant to be dark and edgy. It was Batman's tv-led camp period that was the aberration, not the current style. And Dixon was happy to work in that dark and edgy style until it stopped making him money. He wrote Punisher (a mass murdering vigilante) and was partly responsible for the Knightfall arc which created Bane, saw him break Batman's back and Bruce's replacement by the outright psychotic Azrael. It's only when Dixon fell out of favour that he decided there was a liberal conspiracy in comics.
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