5. Gilda And Meek "Darkness Falls" (Un-Iverse #5)

Rating: PG. (Drinking but nothing else too objectionable.)


















































Author's Note for Gilda And Meek #5 "Darkness Falls" (Un-Iverse #5) 

What I want the reader to understand is the actual most significant moment in the issue is Gilda angrily claiming dark and light magic do not exist. I wanted to set that up early on. Normally, when a character makes such a huge definitive declaration of something that huge, I treat it that the reader should take the idea with a grain of salt and that the actual truth is up for debate. This is my entire mantra with the Narrator. But as far as Gilda's opinion goes, she is 100% right about this and you should believe her. 

Magic works in an impersonal manner in The Un-Iverse to show early on one of its most significant themes: In The Un-Iverse, everyone is responsible for their own actions. I'm not saying the idea of mind control doesn't exist in this specific Universe, but none of the major characters we meet are going to ever be put under it. If a character does a bad thing in the story, it's because they chose to do it. Their suckiness was entirely their own fault. But the good news is this means whenever a character chooses to do an AWESOME thing, they get full credit and responsibility for that too! I'm not sure why so much of genre is willing to give superheroes a free pass for mind control. If the bad things the hero does don't really matter or count, why the hell should I celebrate the good things? Superman didn't just save Metropolis because he's awesome. He did it because he wasn't mind-controlled by Gorilla Grodd this week. Frankly, I find Superman's heroics entirely underwhelming while his virtue is always so up in the air. I'm not saying Gilda will never do bad things or has never done bad things before. But those bad things will have resonance and consequences because Gilda will have nobody but herself to blame for them. Which is entirely how it should be. 



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