“Well, the one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you’ll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra — you can cut off its head in the Germany of the ’30s and ’40s, but it’ll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.”

Alan Moore on Fascism from Salon in 2004

It’s kind of amazing if you think about this in the context of the Captain America movie from last year and The Avenger’s film from this summer. It really makes you think about the need for an “old fashioned” according to Agent Coulson via Joss Whedon.


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