Is it possible for an action comic to lack an obvious hero and villain?
What if no one person is perfectly right or undoubtedly wrong? Is there such a thing as the ‘middle-ground’ when it comes to one person against another, or is the angel vs devil mentality too painfully secured? Okay, maybe in a comic strip, this type of story structuring is essential. People like having someone to root for, whether they know it or not…
But life is not always that simple. Sometimes, there isn’t an obvious distinction between actions of the purest form and behavior that would be frowned upon. Sometimes life is a big, bold mess of rights and wrongs and ‘he said, she saids.’ That’s what makes people so interesting, our ability to group and label them in comparison to our own moral compass, or in this case, our inability to.
Moral dilemmas can appear anywhere: airports, high schools, and in this case, a simple, overcrowded cafe on a random Tuesday afternoon…