Does it make anyone else sad...

C'mon, kids make up crazy violent stories all the time. Some of them don't even understand concepts like murder. I think a lot of parents these days try to protect their kids from make believe violence when it has been a part of being a child forever. I loved playing war as a kid - kids love to play Call of Duty and Halo these days - and it doesn't turn people into crazed killers.

The comic for this is awesome and a ton of fun - I'm afraid the show is going to dilute the fun and just be a boring disappointment - that's what I saw when I watched the trailer. I really hope I'm wrong.

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I had fantasies like that all the time as a kid, I wish my family, rather than drag me to Sunday school where I was told that God was very mad at me for my blasphemous imagination, made a comic about it.

Ethan seems like the coolest brother ever. I hope that Malachai is shielded from the kind of people who would see the things on this comic and try to mold him into what in their minds passes as "normal."

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."-FZ

No. I don't know if you're a man or woman, but most little boys are like this. You're adding the seriousness of reality to imaginations that aren't hindered by it.

I know it's lame to chime in on something you created, but when I see someone getting the wrong idea about my brother I like to set the record straight. I'm Ethan, the older brother in the Axe Cop creative team, and I just wanted to say that the characterization of my brother Malachai is pretty far off base. I know Scorchlord means well and I'm not upset, just clearing things up.

Malachai and me have the same Dad, he is currently 73. He was 40 when I was born. he did not plan to be a Dad during these years of his life, but he married a woman who very much wanted kids and it turned out to be a great thing. He is a very happy guy. But he is also old, and pretty traditional. If anything, Malachai is more sheltered than most kids his age. His Dad (who is the stay at home parent, retired) is as far removed from today's culture as a dad could be. When he was a kid TV had just been invented.

Malachai's influences are mostly video games and the same cartoons most kids watch... Looney Tunes, Ben 10, Mario Brothers, Sonic, Batman, etc. He just applies video game logic to everything. He applies Looney Tunes logic to Batman, and to the Bible. Mostly because he's having fun when he is making Axe Cop, and it makes sense to him that if Santa went bad, he would want to kill God and become Jesus because he would want Christmas to be all about him and not have any competition. He is a bad guy, bad guys want to do bad things... what could be more bad than that?

Anyway, you dig into a kid's head, they have some crazy things to say. Often, if you really made a visual of the things they say it could give them nightmares. The live-action Axe Cop videos made by fans, Malachai shuts his eyes because of the blood, even though it is based on words straight out of his mouth. Imagination and reality are very separate things, especially as a kid.

Thanks for the kind words in here and for checking out the TV show. I hope that clears some things up.

Ethan

Eh, I really don't think it's anything to worry about. It's a kid trying to create a dramatic story, and violence is the simplest and most effective way to do so. Kid ain't gonna be all breaking out the Leitwortstil to try to set up a theme, kids gonna be having laser tanks show up to kill the werewolf terrorists in the knick of time, because violence is exciting, dramatic, and everyone gets it, even a 5 year old.

Besides,adults have been complaining about the entertainment kids have been subjected to ever since entertainment first became a thing, but I wouldn't say violent media leads to violent behavior. Hell, my grand dad shot at some Japanese fellows in the war, and he grew up playing with a wooden hoop and a stick. He fought in a war started by a guy who used to draw paintings of pretty architecture before he found greater professional success having people systematically murdered.

Besides, kids are all kinds of crazy, thats part of what makes them awesome. When I was 5 I wrote a story about a hot dog that didn't have a head, and after many trials and tribulations, finds it and reattaches it, only to be eaten by a giant. You could say that its a story promoting nihilism, since no matter what you accomplish you'll just end up dead anyway, or make it a story about how the capitalist giants of the world like to consume the proletariat hot dogs any time they think they're finally getting ahead in life, but I was just a hungry kid who was beginning to think that happy endings were too played out. Kids just like to come up with crazy ideas because it's fun, and makes for a better story.

And give the series a shot. It's entertaining, and the parts that were written by the kid are actually kind of adorable.

Dude you should totally read the comic then you will be real offended. Not only was the scienero used in the show about how mean he was when babysitting but they also had axe cop hit "stupid" girls with the side of his axe.

That and the explanation of the lion, cheetah, cybord thing was toned down for the show. The stitched brain was shown and him punching the creatures in the face. Hardcore.

But yeah from "killing" bad guys to just plain stealing and mayhem from "good guys" this show is pretty violent.