Seriously. Just tell a good story. That's all comics need to do. I don't mind events, but a good way to handle them is to maintain small networks like the X-books and do crossovers from time to time as opposed to sucking in the whole universe.

That "evil Cap" storyline is great. I have trouble imagining that there was some more urgent, interesting Cap story to tell right now. Do comic book fans not know that Captain American will not stay a member of Hydra forever? Sometimes it's worth doing something crazy. Superior Spider-Man was kind of a disturbing…

One thing I will say in defense of Maher - his show is not an echo chamber. It's really one of the only places where people with views in actual conflict speak anymore. So whatever you think about him, the forum seems useful to me.

Yeah…they were found in plain sight (they'd been around for years) as soon as Milo started getting mainstream attention. Maher didn't handle Milo well, but Milo was undone by attention, which is kind of what you'd expect.

I can't help but notice that Maher said that Milo would be exposed as a monster if he was one and then like 2 days liter Milo's whole career fell apart. So yeah, I don't think Milo needed to be challenged; he just needed a big enough platform that he could hang himself.

That Clarkson, he's really an underwritten character.

Ok, well, good job following your heart on that one, I guess.

For all your lols and insults, you aren't really arguing with anything I have to say, just kind of a straw man cultural enemy racist/homophobe/whatever you're not talking to. What other people find offensive isn't for me to criticize. What we decide to call "offensive" culturally? That I get to weigh in on.

::sigh:: No, I was pointing out the silly bias in the OP. The "by and large" was just cover for a hastily-made overgeneralization with no backup, but you decided that this is all about "did he say ALL or MOST", which is beside the point because the entire line of argument was just hot air to begin with.

It's awful, truly. And now the ONE thing I had, Mark Millar anal sex jokes, are being taken from me. Truly, this is an unjust world.

No, you brought up that trivial, semantic difference, I dismissed it as trivial and semantic, and you're still acting like you've made a key point when you haven't.

No, I'm totally not upset by people getting upset. I'm just pointing out that sometimes people feel excited to get upset and confront other people because they think it gives their lives meaning, and that as a result of that they start viewing everything as a nail because they happen to be holding a hammer.

Yeah, it's thorny.

Well yeah, but you're ignoring a pretty basic piece of human psychology, which is that as soon as you decide that "calling out" is "important work", you have an incentive to find reasons to be offended, because now every time you do you are engaging in meaningful activity.

Yes, I agree with you that sexual entitlement is bad news.

Ok, but then what *is* the complaint? Is it that male wish-fulfillment is inherently offensive?

I've actually heard plenty of radfem types talk about the "important work" of "calling people out" when something is "fucked up" enough times that I think I can say with confidence that there are people who really and truly think it's their job to find reasons to be offended.

I mean, I guess you burned me? I think the point remains that Zack is having trouble believing that it's possible to disagree with him in good faith.

Yes, it's kind of like "no offense, but…"

but then you said that the only people "looking" to be offended are anti-feminist knuckleheads. But you're right, sorry, you only said that SOME of the people you disagree with and NONE of the people you agree with are looking to take offense, so that makes you only kind of totally confirmation-biased.