Books like The Omega Men: The End is Here

Space Terrorists! Boo. But aren't we all terrorists to someone? Yay.Also, Rayner is (to me) the blandest of the Lanterns.This was a weird go-nowhere sort of story about the corruption of religion, the evils of capitalism, and the horrors of waging revolution and losing your soul.The short version is that no one is the bad guy and everyone is the bad guy.The longer version is that Kyle gets forcibly recruited into a terrorist organization that calls themselves The Omega Men (<--a religious reference to one of their gods), and ends up doing spoilery stuff with them after they supposedly cut his throat on live space tv.It's pretty thinly veiled to mirror real-world happenings. And the point King ultimately makes is that to overthrow a cruel government the leaders of the insurgency end up becoming exactly what they fought against in the first place. History repeats itself over and over again.Not every story needs to be uplifting, but this one kind of makes you feel as though there is really no point in bothering to try and change things for the better. Which is and isn't true.The fight to make things better will never end, simply because the personality type of the people who want to be in charge just lends itself to corruption. Plus, there will always be greedy selfish people. So even if things change for the better, once those better people are in control, they either become corrupted or are overthrown by someone who is corrupt.And the cycle starts again.That doesn't mean you need to roll over and take evil shit because it's meaningless to fight.It just means you need to understand that there's never going to be a point that you won't need to stand up and be willing to push back against injustice.