Inactive Andrew Dobson / Tom Preston / CattyN - STOP DOING SEXIST CRAP

Oh wow, even Dobson thinks this is utterly ridiculous.

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I have this feeling that #wokes who are just seeing those two think they're being mocked. You look at the rest of the team and no, it really is one of the absolute worst cases of How Do You Do Fellow Millennials I think I've ever seen. They've got a dude powered by memes and a fat ambiguously brown chick whose power is a backpack that's literally lolsorandom.
 
I have this feeling that #wokes who are just seeing those two think they're being mocked. You look at the rest of the team and no, it really is one of the absolute worst cases of How Do You Do Fellow Millennials I think I've ever seen. They've got a dude powered by memes and a fat ambiguously brown chick whose power is a backpack that's literally lolsorandom.
It's hillarious, I hope woke Marvel put this team in a show and all the regular cast treat them like Poochy like "Spider-Man: I'm in so much trouble, if only Snowflake and Safe Space were here to help!".
 
Oh wow, even Dobson thinks this is utterly ridiculous.

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For years, Comicsgate et al have wondered why Marvel and friends don't create their own characters instead of bastardizing existing characters.
Now we know why.
I've seen SJW Twitter aghast at these designs and characters, so I assume Dobson looked at that and thought "Okay, it's alright to dislike them."
 
I googled to make sure that's actually real and it couldn't be a better self parody. here's the press release, there are more characters:
SCREENTIME
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A Meme-Obsessed super teen whose brain became connected to the internet after becoming exposed to his grandfather’s “experimental internet gas.” Now he can see augmented reality and real-time maps, and can instantly Google any fact. Does this make him effectively a genius? He sure acts like it does.
"I wanted to have teen characters who felt as "now" as the New Warriors did in 1990,” explains Kibblesmith. “The New Warriors have been zeitgeist characters from the beginning, you get edgy skateboarding Night Thrasher in the '90s and the Reality TV team in the 2000s, and now in 2020, we have New Warriors who have never grown up without the Internet, and one character who appears to essentially live inside it.
“The word ’screen time’ is only ever used in a sort of restrictive sense, and because we’re doing a story about teenage rebels, a lot of the names are about teens fighting against labels that are put on them. So with Screentime, we liked the idea that he has infinite screen time.”

SNOWFLAKE AND SAFESPACE
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Psychic Twins. “All twins are psychic, but we’re psychic-er.” Snowflake, a cryokinetic, can materialize snowflake-shaped shuriken projectiles for throwing. Safespace can materialize pink forcefields, but he can’t inhabit them himself, the reflex only works if he’s protecting others. They’re hyper aware of modern culture and optics, and they see their Super Heroics as “a post-ironic meditation on using violence to combat bullying.” They're probably streaming this.
"Snowflake and Safespace are the twins," the writer says, "and their names are very similar to Screentime; it's this idea that these are terms that get thrown around on the internet that they don't see as derogatory. [They] take those words and kind of wear them as badges of honor.
"Safespace is a big, burly, sort of stereotypical jock. He can create forcefields, but he can only trigger them if he's protecting somebody else. Snowflake is non-binary and goes by they/them, and has the power to generate individual crystalized snowflake-shaped shurikens. The connotations of the word 'snowflake' in our culture right now are something fragile, and this is a character who is turning it into something sharp.
"Snowflake is the person who has the more offensive power, and Safespace is the person who has the more defensive power. The idea is that they would mirror each other and complement each other."

B-NEGATIVE
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A teen “living vampire” exposed to Michael Morbius’s blood as a child in a rogue, but life-saving medical procedure. He still ages like a regular kid, but has all the abilities of Morbius. He’s also obsessed with all the music and attitude of a “classic” long-past decades like the '90s, and the '00s. “The world is a vampire…and so am I.”
"B-Negative is the goth kid. When he was a baby he got a rogue lifesaving blood transfusion, we assume, from Michael Morbius. And now he has a very similar look, and very similar vampire powers," shares Kibblesmith. “B-Negative ages like a regular person (or does he?) and he definitely drinks blood (or does he?), but designer/artist Luciano Vecchio took brilliant inspiration from the '90s Spider-Man cartoon and gave B-Negative the 'leech suckers' that the animated version of Morbius had on his palms.”

TRAILBLAZER
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A regular kid scooped up into the world of teenage Super Heroing. Her “magic backpack” is actually a pocket dimension with seemingly infinite space, from which she can pull out useful or random objects—it’s not always under her control. She claims to get her power from god, but “not the god you’re thinking of.”
"She's a group home and foster kid who is volunteering at a senior center when this mysterious threat shows up and Night Thrasher runs to the rescue," the scribe adds. "And because she helps him, she ends up in the crosshairs of this new 'Outlawed' law...
“Trailblazer wants to help people, but she doesn't think of herself as a Super Hero (yet!),” Kibblesmith concludes. “The Marvel Universe is a reflection of our own, and when a new law gets put into place, it affects people in unforeseen ways.”
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"Trailblazer" is seriously just a direct ripoff of that one dude from Venture Brothers but turned into a brownfat, while also stealing Billy Batson's backstory from the new Shazam movie.

Hell, Trailblazer is basically Dora the Explorer.

But seriously, I just can't believe that Marvel actually were serious about this; if they waited till 4/1, they'd have made the BEST April Fool's joke ever.

But... wow. And it's apparently doling a mini-Civil War again with underage superheroes having to register or work directly underneath an older super now. I occasionally flip through Spider-Gwen, and was treated to a near literal temper tantrum from Gwen Stacy whining to Peter Parker about how HE didn't need adult supervision...
 
Oh wow, even Dobson thinks this is utterly ridiculous.

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lol the comments section:
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more battle angel alt-right:
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new exceptional comic:
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reblogging :lunacy: :
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um, forcibly shutting down commerce via state edict or pandemic panic is NOT 'capitalism shutting down'. :stress:
 
Dobson's designs are bland and derivative, and therefore relatively inoffensive as far as things go. In being soulless they're just kind of there and can't actually invoke strong reactions on their own.

These designs are actually trying, which means they're capable of invoking a reaction, and for most people that reaction is going to be "This is shit." I suppose it's left up to the individual to decide which of "lazy and inoffensive" or "trying and awful" is worse.
 
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