Sorta, kinda. To be absolutely clear, he published a full on anarchist manifesto under a DC label, as well as Watchmen itself, which ended up being the ultimate deconstructionist take on superheroes (and does start from a heroes-as-keepers-of-the-system take, but goes way past that eventually).

And, again, it's not like he was pretending to be a conservative while he was doing superheroes.

Again, writers are writers. They write. It's not like there's a sign on the Marvel and DC bullpens saying "status quo defense only". Again, except for that chunk of time where the US government literally did that. But that's a different story, and there was a ton of cultural and countercultural pushback before, during and after.

[–] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, short version is "yes, with a but"

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah. The "but" being he published plenty of countercultural, left-leaning content under a mainstream publisher brand and in the superhero genre.

So, you know, a pretty big "but" in this context.