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2018-01-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Every GLAAD-Nominated Marvel Comic Book Has Been Axed
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Posted by Fred 2018-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 I'm old enough to remember when Marvel comics were just cool escapist fun (60's). Something that the current publishers seem to have forgotten. Roll left and die.
Posted by PBMcL 2018-01-21 01:53||   2018-01-21 01:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Discovering what the word 'minority' really meant in the market place. Hard cash vs sound ratio wasn't what they thought it was.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-01-21 07:23||   2018-01-21 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Was it not more fun to speculate whether Robin was gay or Wonder Woman was bi-sexual or Superman was ever going to get Lois Lane into the phone booth? Comics were about kickstarting your imagination not programming it.
Posted by Airandee  2018-01-21 07:24||   2018-01-21 07:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Marvel writers regard their base of comic book readers as knuckle-dragging racist misogynist xenophobic blah blah blah. That's why they made the SJW superheroes, it was a smash in the face to TEH PATRIARCHY.
Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2018-01-21 09:54||   2018-01-21 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Gamergate Part II
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-01-21 10:29||   2018-01-21 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Along those lines, saw an ad for Black Panther. Absolutely ridiculous blacksploitation, just cliché after cliché, felt embarrassed watching it.
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-01-21 11:40||   2018-01-21 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 GLAAD to hear it.
Posted by charger 2018-01-21 12:35||   2018-01-21 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Black Panther looks a rare miss for Marvel, and I loved Thor Ragnorok
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-01-21 14:06||   2018-01-21 14:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Huey Newton doesn't even look like that
Posted by Frank G 2018-01-21 16:17||   2018-01-21 16:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Their track record would suggest I am wrong; they managed to turn Thor - one I very much doubted - into three stand-alones plus Avenger; a very successful venture. Rabnorok is on my list, but I have not been to a theater since the Star Trek reboot went Through Naboo's Core (a term my circle uses for a long, over the top, unnecessary to the plot segment such as when in Star Wars, the jedis and the dipstick take a submarine through the planet's core, encountering bigger and bigger fish along the way, its only point is being pointless). Really expensive, obnoxious to get there and back, and some people dropped their young ones, like 6 year olds, at the movie presumably so they could go see a flick the kids shouldn't see.
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-01-21 16:21||   2018-01-21 16:21|| Front Page Top

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