{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Thinking about Hellblazer and other 80s Vertigo stuff \u2013 what exactly was it about \"overconfidence leading you down a path that...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/656561081438945280/", "html": "<p>Thinking about Hellblazer and other 80s Vertigo stuff \u2013 what exactly was it about &ldquo;overconfidence leading you down a path that you ended up having to consciously sacrifice the lives of friendly innocents to escape&rdquo; that was so meaningful to New Wave-era British hipsters? It wasn&rsquo;t &lsquo;Nam, and they consciously treated AIDS in-universe. Fall of the Empire stuff? Survivor&rsquo;s guilt over being one of the ones who experienced Thatcherism as an ascent from the dirty postwar working class to Cool Brittania?</p>"}