Should superheroes take political positions?

For some reason, Google is having a hard time finding some of my recent posts to the new Comics Professor blog (now at http://www.comicsprofessor.com/). So from time to time, I will highlight new blog posts here.

For instance, please see "Should superheroes take political positions?", which was inspired by Vaneta Rogers' recent article at Newsarama discussing social commentary in comic books, including Denny O'Neil, Greg Rucka, and Judd Winick. In it, I discuss my own views on politics in comics, including where it's appropriate to mention superheroes' political orientation, and the two cases in which is definitely is not.

Reborn - gee, I wonder...

Marvel has a five-issue mini-series solicited for July with the simple title Reborn, written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Bryan Hitch. No details given...

It's pretty obvious who will be "reborn," right? I just wonder how they're going to do it - with Brubaker writing it, though, I'm sure it will be good...