A morally black-and-white superhero book about the war on terror is a painfully oversimplified version of a complex issue that continues to kill people daily. This should be apparent to anyone of reasonable intelligence, no matter where they stand on the war itself. The war on terror is no place for flag-waving jubilation. Even from the most favourable perspective, it is a necessary evil. This is not 1942, and jingoism is hollow for modern audiences. They are too sophisticated for that