ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on graphic and verbal constructions of the concepts of justice and governance in two mainstream comics series, published by DC: Alex Ross's Justice and Dan Jurgens's Justice League International. Environmental justice is key to environmental ethics, a sub-discipline of philosophy that faces a number of problems on epistemological, meta-ethical and normative grounds; in fact, key tenets of environmental science are somewhat counterintuitive. The chapter shows that it is impossible to understand how superhero narratives construct the notions of justice and governance without learning more about American history first. Similar to attesting manifest madness in criminal law, culpability is structurally inscribed in the criminal mind, as part of the personality structure of the most uncontrollable superheroes. The chapter also discusses global governance amounts to little more than US economic, cultural and political dominance in the cultural products which thereby help foster and maintain American supremacy in the extra-textual world.
