This series, already quite popular at its release, has since gone viral after its controversial annual issue, where Absolute Batman is shown beating up white supremacists who were terrorizing and planning to burn down an encampment of people who had immigrated into the town they were in. This comic book release, along with the release of ‘Superman’ over the summer, has seemingly sparked a lot of conversation about how superheroes have gone “woke,” and let me just say that Superhero —or Anti-hero —wokeness is not a new concept from the woke left.
As someone who has been a lifetime Batman fan collecting comics for the past couple of years, Batman, along with many other heroes, excluding those from satirical series like The Boys, operates in some capacity to maintain social justice. The main inherently “woke” idea that superheroes follow is their devotion to protecting and saving anyone in the face of danger, whether it be supernatural threats, government corruption, or corporate malice (sometimes occurring simultaneously).
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When it comes to satirical series like ‘The Boys,’ some heroes themselves are already corrupt, and the main message of the show serves as a dramatization of current social issues. However, the show has faced similar criticisms to the Absolute Batman Annual comic regarding their depictions of nazis and White Supremacists, where some are unsettled by the treatment of such hate groups in the fictional universe and feel that current hero media is acting as propaganda to insight hate against hate groups. See how that sounds?