Absolutely, but Nick Spencer didn't need to play devil's advocate for someone who seriously believes in "peaceful ethnic cleansing". Nobody asked him to do that.

His argument was that the "violence" of the Stonewall riots didn't improve things, the organising afterwards did. That ignores the fact that the organisation only happened BECAUSE of the riots. Nobody would have noticed if the community hadn't fought back first.

It's also the root of that annoying joke about how someone isn't racist or homophobic or sexist, they just "hate everyone equally".

I can't afford to wait to see how it plays out. Comics are expensive, and I'm not shelling out £4 every month or so to see whether something that started off shite gets better later on. Why can't it be good now? If you're gonna commit to the medium of serialised storytelling, every part needs to be worthwhile, not…

And as we all know, liberal men always have the best interests of women at heart.

Punching Nazis is not something everyone can afford to do, especially if they're from a group more likely to get harassed by law enforcement, but when I see someone as downright evil as Richard Spencer get decked, sometimes it feels like good has won if only for a moment.

Also, just to add to that, there wasn't a potential Communist uprising threatening the US when Brubaker and Epting made Bucky a Soviet agent.

Spencer's run had the new Madame Hydra say "no we don't discriminate against the races or the genders, we're the COOL fascists, the GOOD fascists".

We've seen what happens when Nazis get the first punch. Doesn't end well.

Actual Jewish fans have called it anti-Semitic, but what do I know?

"great books"

Comics nowadays tend to be written for the trade, so it's galling having to shell out so much money to read a story in parts over the course of nine months, not counting tie-ins and crossovers. Even if you wait for it to finish, trades and hardcovers are still fairly expensive. Every new comic is someone's first, but…

Spencer and Marvel are trying to rebrand Hydra as ~Woke Fascism~.

Unless Oliver was actively calling for Marvel to pulp all issues of Secret Empire, he's not policing them, he's calling it a shit idea, as is his right as a critic. Not all of us can drop $50+ on a book we're iffy about to see if it improves from a dodgy premise.

More like accidentally anti-Semitic, in the same way you accidentally step on someone's foot during rush hour, or your grandma dropping N-bombs at Thanksgiving. They don't mean to cause offence, but it doesn't change the fact that you still did it.

It probably helps that, in the ballroom community, that term is like the gold standard, especially if you're voguing or trying to be femme.

I am white, so stop getting offended on my behalf.

Chill out, mayonnaise boy.

They edited his later work without his permission. That's not exactly great.

The way Ed Brubaker puts it, Watchmen was being held up as the way forward for creator's rights at the time. That they'd learned from the mistakes of Siegel and Shuster and Kirby et al., and this was a bold new step forward for the company and the industry.