- Joined
- Dec 16, 2017
He doesn't really believe this nonsense, does he? I mean, this is all posturing, right?
This is Bob Chipman. The guy who believes Shigeru Miyamoto ordained him to go on a quest to vanquish FPSes (and presumably "dudebros") from the gaming landscape. He does not believe that Black Panther or any black characters had any prominence in the Marvel Universe until the advent of the MCU. Never mind that the Panther first appeared in 1966. Never mind the varying levels popularity that Luke Cage, Misty Knight, and Storm enjoyed since the 1970s. Never mind the fact that Jim Rhodes and Monica Rambeau took up the mantles of Iron Man and Captain Marvel in the 1980s. Also note that Rhodes was the Iron Man present in the original Secret Wars and Rambeau enjoyed a stint as the the leader of the Avengers, so it is not as if they were obscure in the least.
Chucklefucks like Bob are so desperate to believe that the comic book fans were pasty-skinned, racist troglodytes that willfully blind themselves to the truth they refuse to acknowledge is that we don't care. It was the skill of writers like Roger Stern and Chris Claremont that allowed them to craft characters fans cared enough about to look past their melanin count. Yet all Bob can do it look at a person's skin colour and treat them with condescension veiled in adulation.
It is people like Bob who are slowly making me loathe Black Panther because they want it to be a political statement as opposed to a form of entertainment. You can bet your bottom dollar that they are going to do the same to the Captain Marvel next year, because they see the reception BP is getting as validation.