I was wondering if this idea was ever put forward about the character of judge death. Death has been primarily portrayed as pure evil in his philosophy that always been all crime is committed by the living therefore all life must be a crime and his relentless persuit to extinguish life.
instead of dismissing it as pure evil there could be a deeper interpretation of this philosophy. i recently returned to reading 2000ad after a 14 year absence and remember the image of deadworld as a black lifeless hunk where all life had been extinguished. now amongst judge deaths many talents forgive me if i say that microbiology and sterilisation have never been one of them. i could therefore envisage that after a few decades, perhaps centuries or even millenia, deadworld would begin to flourish again. the seeds of trees, the bacteria and algae could reconquer the once dead planet reminescent of modern pictures of the towns around chernobyl becoming forests in carparks and apartment blocks or the image of the first plant growing from the black volcanoic rock of Surtsey off Iceland in the 70s.
even small insects could have excaped the apocalyse. the one thing that could be missing would be the sentient free will holding humans.
we could therefore think of the dark judges as cartesians. like descartes they could regard all 'lower' life as merely fleshy machines, with no free will and therefore no sin or virtue. or even like rouseau who believed that man in the state of nature is naturally virtuous, it is only when they interact in a society that they become corrupted. death himself being the lone person who would wander without sin in his own natural enviroment. destroy all life so that it can start again without crime. im reminded also of a speach by one of the officers in 28 days later about world without man would be a return to normality.
i would not want death to be painted as some sort of supernatural eco terrorist, i believe pat mills might sue. but the image of judge death walking in an abundant rainforest in the distant future saying 'there! i was right' seems appealing to me and may add an philosphical zero to the equation.
what do others think? has this come up before and been dismissed as stupid?
instead of dismissing it as pure evil there could be a deeper interpretation of this philosophy. i recently returned to reading 2000ad after a 14 year absence and remember the image of deadworld as a black lifeless hunk where all life had been extinguished. now amongst judge deaths many talents forgive me if i say that microbiology and sterilisation have never been one of them. i could therefore envisage that after a few decades, perhaps centuries or even millenia, deadworld would begin to flourish again. the seeds of trees, the bacteria and algae could reconquer the once dead planet reminescent of modern pictures of the towns around chernobyl becoming forests in carparks and apartment blocks or the image of the first plant growing from the black volcanoic rock of Surtsey off Iceland in the 70s.
even small insects could have excaped the apocalyse. the one thing that could be missing would be the sentient free will holding humans.
we could therefore think of the dark judges as cartesians. like descartes they could regard all 'lower' life as merely fleshy machines, with no free will and therefore no sin or virtue. or even like rouseau who believed that man in the state of nature is naturally virtuous, it is only when they interact in a society that they become corrupted. death himself being the lone person who would wander without sin in his own natural enviroment. destroy all life so that it can start again without crime. im reminded also of a speach by one of the officers in 28 days later about world without man would be a return to normality.
i would not want death to be painted as some sort of supernatural eco terrorist, i believe pat mills might sue. but the image of judge death walking in an abundant rainforest in the distant future saying 'there! i was right' seems appealing to me and may add an philosphical zero to the equation.
what do others think? has this come up before and been dismissed as stupid?