That’s an interesting point I hadn’t thought of, and could also have been an interesting way into doing a Shang-chi series with some shaded version of his dad, Fu Manchu, where you could drop the horrific Yellow Menace aspect but develop a whole cultured, royalist, wealthy mandarin-in-the-21st century flavor to this…

Could you approve Collex’ post that you responded to, James? That way people viewing the thread can see what he wrote.

Yeah, if they were so constrained that they couldn’t do it justice, why even bother? There are so many other Marvel characters to choose from. And I say that having loved Iron Fist as a kid and during the colossal Brubaker/Fraction/Aja run.

While I tend to be very supportive of representing identity-sensitive issues, I do personally believe that it’s possible to go overboard, so I will ask...does it offend anyone that there are no Asian MMA champs of note? I’m not an expert but a quick Google search makes me wonder if there have ever been any in the…

I’ll give it a shot, but I won’t stick with it if it’s honestly this bad. Or even close. I’m bummed.

So you pick and choose what the “real” character is for yourself, based on your biases. Just like everyone else. That’s a good realization to have.

So what? It’s still part of his canon. Did you ever take offense at it and scream at Marvel for being insensitive? Plus does it cause you to hate on Kirby and Lee for being anti-Semites?

Shh! You’re being too rational and logical! Flee before you are stoned by complete fucking ignorance.

Actually less than you might think, aside from possibly the early years of X-Men when it was Jack & Stan.

Holy shit, Magneto was created as a character who was out to commit genocide of a “lesser race”. FROM THE BEGINNING.

What about the line where the Jewish creators at Marvel made Magneto a villain out to wipe out the “lesser race” from the beginning? Are you going to retroactively blast them for that?

Do you even know that the character of Magneto is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who proclaimed the genetic superiority of homo superior and tried repeatedly to eradicate the lesser race of homo sapiens?

No. but that hypocrisy of being a species-based supremacist who tried multiple times to wipe the “lesser” species off the earth makes doing a cover of him as Hydra (or a straight-up Nazi for that matter) not only relevant but encouraged. People seem to want to remember Magneto’s painful holocaust-based origin but…

Putting aside issues of race, fight quality, dialog quality and other production issues, from the reviews I’ve read I think there’s also just a massive fundamental problem with the entire character concept the show went with.

Huh, I never knew that. I just looked him up and it seems that Dunn was a bald, telepathic supervillain and then there was another brute hero called The Superman by Siegel and Shuster before they tried the Clark Kent version. Thanks for the education.

All three of those guys are such greats. Rude is killing as usual with his pages and covers for Future Quest. I just wish the story was good enough for me to actually want to read. Rude doing Alex Toth characters is almost as tasty as his doing Kirby Hulk and Superman. I think he’s still one of the bests and I’d love…

I have no idea what it takes to get my posts out of the gray, so until then I’ll glom on to already-approved threads.

True, but if I remember rightly in that case it was because he actually needed them. Which actually fits the action-Steinbeck kind of philosophy it was shooting for. Now I can’t remember whether he returned or replaced the clothes or not; I feel like he did.

Yeah, pretty much the same feeling. It looks great and has a lovely feel to it, but I come away from it thinking, “Damn, Clark is a straight-up thief!”

Yeah, but you have your own mental histories that you’ve built for those characters for yourself. No offense, but there’s nothing objective about them and, more to the point, nobody else has exactly the same ones. Especially the general movie-going public who if they know anything only know about Thanos because of the…