I think there's a difference between critique and the moral finger-wagging that's been going on about both these storylines.

Terrible story ideas don't exist.

I haven't been loving Steve Rogers… I think Spencer bit off more than he can chew with the "the cube rewrote Steve and only Steve's reality". It's not quite clear what Steve's endgame has been the past several decades, so reading about him plotting and planning for a year is kind of fun, but I think it needed to draw…

Yea, this is the least lazy use of the Cosmic Cube since ever. Although, that's not saying that much. I think the second least lazy use was the time Crusher Creel absorbed it.

No but it's literally "I don't know what's going on, so I use this place of authority to claim it's no good"

"now the whole reboot means it never happened"

So is this 4-issue crossover between Batman and Flash just the beginning of a big crossover event?

HAHAH! Damn, that's true.

You could try reading it.

Yea, like fine, you can disagree with him. But the way people talk about him "He's an MRA crybaby asshole!" is so far from the truth it honestly makes me doubt everything I think I know about anything. Like who originates this groupthink? It's crazy.

21 years with only 20 shortboxes to show for it? Couldn't have been THAT active.

I wasn't thinking of this as him being a villain. I was thinking they'd just reveal that Dr. Manhattan created the DC Universe and give him a hand in all the reboots and weird continuity things that always go on there. And then just, kind of let it sit.

That "Cosmic Cube is a lazy plot device" argument is bad too though. Nick Spencer did something new with the Cosmic Cube for the first time in years (which, to be fair, I didn't love). This is the definition of kneejerk.

I think I DONT KNOW is acceptable though. All I know is that I'm liking it.

The person who he said the Stonewall thing to literally said, "Liberals don't believe in liberation through violent revolt or else using grenades to fight injustice wouldn't be considered a bad thing"

I remember reading some webcomic that was like, "I hate when comic creators keep stuff stagnate and keep telling the same stories over and over again. The only thing worse is when they change stuff too much!"

I wasn't really trying to spin anything, as I agree 100% with what you just said. I didn't see the Hayes Pond non-responses though.

It's also semantics. Like I get that. Using his logic you could say that "Rosa Parks' non-violent protest didn't help things, the media frenzy after did!"

Listen, I get it. And I think his Sam Wilson book tries to wrestle with that. But I'm really uncomfortable that someone's getting dragged across the coals simply for being staunchly anti-violence.
Mostly by people who love cheering about watching people get punched from the safety of their own home.

It's actually interesting to me because each book opens with a twitter feed of people overreacting on the title page. The book is a satire of the media cycle and people who ignore nuance so they can champion/complain about whatever political agenda they're pushing that day. Then I read 21 pages of story about a real…