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Yeah, any actual abusiveness or 'toxicity' in Reed and Sue's relationship comes from faggy modern writers who use Reed as a punching bag for their daddy issues or their own relationship problems. Classically, the worst Reed would do is go into his lab to work on a project and not realize a week has passed, thereby ignoring his wife (and later, children) for days at a time.
He did have a few moments of "wives are for kissing, not talking" during Lee's run, but that was a common sentiment at the time and Reed was an older guy whose hair was going gray, so of course he'd have those values. It doesn't make him a monster or abusive, it just makes him a man from a different time. Which, to those modern writers, is exactly the same thing.

"Reed Richards might be extremely smart... but, human, you're a torch."
Came up with another one

"Tony Stark might be extremely rich... but, man, you're a spider."
 
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I tried to read the Giant Sized Dark Phoenix issue, starring Kalama, that just came out, and it might be one of the worst things I've ever read. Just take a look at the quality of dialog in it.

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Kamala Khan is one of the most "why does this character still get shilled (besides the patently obvious reasons)" additions to the Marvel lineup ever, besides being born of the sort of fetishistic fascination with Muslima characters in fiction a lot of people have. She reeks of the sort of also-ran characters Marvel, the Distinguished Competition and others introduced in the 70s, 80s, and 90s in an attempt to prove how fresh and "with it" they were that would quietly be left to the wayside, except she has been shilled so hard. She feels artificially sustained.

Most writers don't do much to differentiate her from other modern superhero characters who constantly make references to fanfiction, pop culture and "geeking out" over working with veteran superheroes, besides her supposedly being halal observant.

This sort of "humor" where characters make references to fanfic and being geeks, it's sort of tedious isn't it? That's mostly what I associate "Ms. Marvel" with, along with the sort of humorous dialog you write if you are a person where the the majority of your communication with otherpeople is done through forums/Twitter/Tumblr/etc.

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Kamala Khan is one of the most "why does this character still get shilled (besides the patently obvious reasons)" additions to the Marvel lineup ever, besides being born of the sort of fetishistic fascination with Muslima characters in fiction a lot of people have. She reeks of the sort of also-ran characters Marvel, the Distinguished Competition and others introduced in the 70s, 80s, and 90s in an attempt to prove how fresh and "with it" they were that would quietly be left to the wayside, except she has been shilled so hard. She feels artificially sustained.
I don't think I've seen anyone ever actually claim to be a fan of the character. At best some people seem to be ok with her when she's a side character in a team book. The worst part about her is that Marvel already had a interesting character in Dust who fit all the diversity checkboxes Ms. Marvel was created for but they desided to just not use Dust for anything instead. Turning into sand and ripping off people's skin is way cooler then Ms. Marvel's power that's basically just making her hands bigger.
 
I don't think I've seen anyone ever actually claim to be a fan of the character. At best some people seem to be ok with her when she's a side character in a team book.
At the start she had some genuine fans. But then the book, and to be fair the rest of Marvel, got super preachy. There was one infamous page during the second run where you had kids sitting together at lunch, talking about how oppressed they were.

I remember her being a klutz back in her first run, being really clumsy as she tried to work out her powers, and she made mistakes. But from what I've seen since then she's basically a quirky Mary Sue now.
 
At the start she had some genuine fans. But then the book, and to be fair the rest of Marvel, got super preachy. There was one infamous page during the second run where you had kids sitting together at lunch, talking about how oppressed they were.

I remember her being a klutz back in her first run, being really clumsy as she tried to work out her powers, and she made mistakes. But from what I've seen since then she's basically a quirky Mary Sue now.
the way she was, up to the beginning of Secret Wars, was the ideal Kamala Khan. I liked the sappy melodramatic end she faced at the last incursion, right before the world ended. She got told she did good, lived up to a legacy, and still showed herself as an awkward klutz that was endearingly trying to figure everything out in the weird horrid time between Infinity and Secret Wars, where Marvel's paragons went off kilter and everything was shitting itself. Doc Ock was Spidey, Hulk was Professor Hulk but worse, Wolverine died, Steve Rogers was aged and cranky, Tony became kinda evil, the X-Men were fucked, the Inhumans were kinda spazzed out, and then you had the Incursions looming over everything.

Hell of a time to become a superhero. I do recall that she was meant to be a Reed Richards fangirl first.

Anyways early Kamala was fine. I think it just got worse when they didn't really have a direction for her and just flanderized her into some sort of mary sue. While it kinda was lame, I do think the way she died a while back wasn't that bad of an ending for her. They even had an odd funeral issue for her, and then brought her back in the X-Books like 4 months later because apparently she had a latent X-Gene. I recall the premise of her arc there was some weird analogy for sexuality/race.

Her power set's sorta weird to me because it's some hackneyed inferior version of Reed's. But it's always implied that, if she gets enough experience and training, then she's capable of even shapeshifting and greater feats.

But yeah, anyways, Kamala's a character with fine potential ruined by current day incompetency. Must be a day that ends in Y. Hell, the early run had some interesting dynamics in exploring the natural sexism of muslim culture. Wonder why that didn't continue. I think she should have been jettisoned with the other new Inhumans and have been brought back a year later for some big space opera adventure in the same vein as Annihilation.
 
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From Aliens vs. Avengers. I guess "the universe" is code for "authors".
So, this shit's been in there for a while. It's amusing, but the one question I have in all this is how the fuck do they secretly exist and why has this never been brought up. Do they go out of their way to hide?

What would be interesting would be seeing them get massacred like the Nova Corps.
 
So, this shit's been in there for a while. It's amusing, but the one question I have in all this is how the fuck do they secretly exist and why has this never been brought up. Do they go out of their way to hide?

What would be interesting would be seeing them get massacred like the Nova Corps.
My understanding is that they've been very out of the way from the rest of the universe until now (and they were the result of time travel to begin with). Not sure if it had anything to do with that terrible Slott thing where like 90% of the universe was hidden behind a paywall and now suddenly unlocked for exploration.

And for what it's worth, they did get massacred by the Xenomorphs. Shame it's not canon.
 
I really hate the fanboyism towards Wakanda and the RL issues it spawned, most of which that accursed BP movie is to blame.
Same, and no one at Marvel will ever do anything about it because they don't want to be accused of racism. But from what I've seen of Gen Zed and Gen Alpha, more Alpha, we're swinging away from political correctness as we have teenagers calling each other fags and giving out ironic nazi salutes because they find it funny. The world is healing. Now we just need the media to catch up.
 
Saw this in the articles and happenings and thought...why did we stop sending Marxists to the electric chair?
The Marxist Canadian writing the latest Fantastic Four comic run
I hate to say but I kinda understand Joe quesada introducing a "no smoking" mandate. That resulted in ben grim no longer smoking "big Ole stogies" but it was still the least awful thing to happen to the fantastic four.
 
Saw this in the articles and happenings and thought...why did we stop sending Marxists to the electric chair?

I hate to say but I kinda understand Joe quesada introducing a "no smoking" mandate. That resulted in ben grim no longer smoking "big Ole stogies" but it was still the least awful thing to happen to the fantastic four.

A Marxist is also writing the main Ultimates run as well.

Though surprisingly the current Fantastic Four run or the Ultimates run are not well uber pozzed given the politics of their writers.

But the people and faggots praising those runs, see Trump parallels and also want to gatekeep right wing folks out of the franchise by their own admissions.
 
I bet it's because part of The Message: You know, making blondes and/or gingers girls paired to blacks guys, and ALWAYS like that, never the other way around.
There is a theory that black man x white woman fulfills a bizarre woke equilibrium, as their privilege charts have black -1 male +1 and white +1 female -1, therefore it does not provoke their obsession with muh power dynamics.
 
The writer of the ultimates is a unironic marxist from Brooklyn.

But this cover goes hard.

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Current Fantastic Four run is really good. I don't feel like the writer injects his politics into it, which really shocks me.

The run finished this week and now they going to reboot it again.

Despite it being the same writer.
 
They're still doing that shit, restarting with a new volume every year? Are they still calling them a 'season'? It's a pointless gimmick like foil covers, though at least those could be somewhat cool.
 
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