Originally Posted by Rausch:
There's a big difference between raising issues of social justice and being an SJW.
Women's suffrage, the civil rights movement, slavery: all legit social justice issues.
Free tampons, imaginary genders, and fanatical hatred of anything dissimilar are completely different.
SJW's are a complete perversion of liberalism and "tolerance." It's not a one sided problem: republicans hijacked morality in the 80's and 90's to suppress free speech in music and media. Now the Dems are.
Stan Lee always had the good sense to bring up social issues with analogy and alegory. Marvel, currently, does not use the A&A approach. Marvel now spells everything out for the reader and throws social justice (Maoist) content into the comics in a very ham-fisted way. that's why the comics dont/wont sell [Reply]
Originally Posted by Nickhead:
did you copy and paste this from another post of yours (ages ago)? i only ask as i feel i have read it before, and only remember it because i totally agreed with said post.
either that, or i am for an infinite number of times, asking you this same question over and over? :-)
Yeah, I've made reference to that before. That, or I just went full Rick Sanchez on you. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Fishpicker:
Stan Lee always had the good sense to bring up social issues with analogy and alegory. Marvel, currently, does not use the A&A approach. Marvel now spells everything out for the reader and throws social justice (Maoist) content into the comics in a very ham-fisted way. that's why the comics dont/wont sell
Exactly. It's all in the storytelling.
Show - don't tell.
I think Peter David was excellent at this in the 80's and 90's. [Reply]
Originally Posted by youtube comments:
Fury: "So nice to finally meet you, Spider-Man."
Peter: "You're Nick Fury..."
Fury: "I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GOD DAMN THING!"
Of course comics have always had the socialist/progressive undertones. I didn't read them to find my political center.
I think people finally had enough when they decided to start just straight gender swapping the most popular characters. Why did Iron Man, Thor, Wolverine, any of them have to become female at the Secret Wars reset? You want a female Iron Man, develop a new character and have one, but don't nuke a long time favorite in the name of femininity or some SJW agenda. Do some work and actually MAKE a new character that can compete with/against the old one. Anyone not named Logan trying to be Wolverine is nothing but a poser, no matter the sex, and that includes X-23 (and she's pretty awesome). Goes for all the old time, long time characters. IMHO, of course. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
Of course comics have always had the socialist/progressive undertones. I didn't read them to find my political center.
I think people finally had enough when they decided to start just straight gender swapping the most popular characters. Why did Iron Man, Thor, Wolverine, any of them have to become female at the Secret Wars reset? You want a female Iron Man, develop a new character and have one, but don't nuke a long time favorite in the name of femininity or some SJW agenda. Do some work and actually MAKE a new character that can compete with/against the old one. Anyone not named Logan trying to be Wolverine is nothing but a poser, no matter the sex, and that includes X-23 (and she's pretty awesome). Goes for all the old time, long time characters. IMHO, of course.
did you copy and paste this from another post of yours (ages ago)? i only ask as i feel i have read it before, and only remember it because i totally agreed with said post.
either that, or i am for an infinite number of times, asking you this same question over and over? :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Nickhead:
did you copy and paste this from another post of yours (ages ago)? i only ask as i feel i have read it before, and only remember it because i totally agreed with said post.
either that, or i am for an infinite number of times, asking you this same question over and over? :-)
Not an infinite number, . . . infinity is not a number. . . . Luckily, out of 14,000,605 timelines, this is the one timeline where you get an answer!! [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
Ok, so who is Gyllenhalls character? Tell me about him.
Mysterio. In the comics he was a goofy villain with no superpowers. Big dome over his head so you could never see his face. He was an illusionist. Used hallucinogenic gasses and holograms to create elaborate illusions. He would envelop himself in smoke to stay hidden and confuse his enemies. Seems weird that they would use him over so many other good villains, but whatever.
I'd bet a dollar that the giant monsters you see in the trailer are all just illusions. Mysterio is going to make himself a hero by defeating his own fake monsters, and then Spidey will get framed and have to prove the truth. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Fish:
Mysterio. In the comics he was a goofy villain with no superpowers. Big dome over his head so you could never see his face. He was an illusionist. Used hallucinogenic gasses and holograms to create elaborate illusions. He would envelop himself in smoke to stay hidden and confuse his enemies. Seems weird that they would use him over so many other good villains, but whatever.
I'd bet a dollar that the giant monsters you see in the trailer are all just illusions. Mysterio is going to make himself a hero by defeating his own fake monsters, and then Spidey will get framed and have to prove the truth.
So it's just all a ruse that he's from another multiverse? [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
So it's just all a ruse that he's from another multiverse?
I don't think the alternate timelines is a ruse, but yeah I'd venture a guess that he's beating his own monsters for some sort of plot reason. Mysterio was never a good guy in the comics, just a dorky villain with illusions. It looks like they give him magic powers in this one though, some off shoot of Dr. Strange's powers or something of the like. This newest trailer is pretty awesome though. [Reply]
