By Zack Quaintance — Rooting comic book stories firmly in current events can be a tricky business. I would argue that the vast majority of comics (even the most fantastical) have a lot to say about current events, growing as they do from the subconscious of creators living within them, but very few can consistently evoke details, news items, socio-political realities and so on in a way that makes their happenings seem totally plausible. It’s one thing for say, Watchmen, to feel like the people are real, but it’s entirely another for those people to be reacting to the same issues we do outside our doors.