You are a naive fucking idiot. Every form of entertainment on the planet is full of political messages, because entertainment is created by people, and people believe things. Comics are not an exception. That you don't personally care about old WW2 propaganda is not the least bit relevant. What is relevant is that if there was ever a time you cared about comics, those comics had political messages, because comics have an unbroken history of being a fairly highly political medium. If it's bothering you now, specifically, then it has nothing to do with politicization and everything to do with the specific political message. So when you whine about politicization "broadly," we know you are full of shit. Politicization does not bother you, because if so you never in your life would you have gotten into comics. You have a specific problem with the specific idea of equal representation.Sacrificial Lamb wrote:And I don't care about war propaganda from World War II, and if we're being really honest....you probably don't either. My father fought in World War II, not me. That was decades ago, during a completely different era in human history......and not particularly relevant to the radically "progressive" bizarro identity politics bullshit occurring TODAY in MODERN comic books. What you snarkily bring up is not relevant to the current discussion, but then you know that....which is why you brought it up.
Again, you have never in your life bitched about how white Flash #17 is "co-opting" the success of white Flash #16 (even though they are both clearly different characters who happen to be straight white men). You did not start bitching about the sanctity of legacy characters until their new incarnations were a different skin color or whatever the fuck, because the thing that bothers you is not that new characters might "inherit" the success of their predecessors, but that some of the new characters who get to inherit those successes might be - gasp - women! Or black! Or gay!Sacrificial Lamb wrote:If you're capable of being intellectually honest, you would acknowledge that straight white male comic book legacy characters are absolutely being co-opted in comic books, movies, and TV shows (in larger numbers than ever recently) by minority characters.
Do you have any idea how many times the Spider-Man story has been retold? How many different continuities and reboots and distinct lines there have been? Do you realize that each and every single one of those distinct stories has shamelessly leeched off the success - and fame - of its predecessors? Here's my challenge to you: what is offensive to you about a new incarnation (that happens to be black) of an old character (who happens to be white) that isn't also offensive about a new incarnation (that happens to be white) of an old character (who happens to be white)?
Your actual fucking premise is "separate drinking fountains for everyone!" That white people and black people aren't interchangeable members of the same society. That straight men and gay men are fundamentally different. That men and women have no place sharing common legacies. It's absurd and offensive.
The fact is it doesn't actually matter (to the integrity of the Spider-Man legacy) if the newest Spider-Man line features a white protagonist or a black protagonist, and if you find yourself thinking somehow a black Spider-Man damages that integrity you are probably the worst kind of shitbag imaginable.