Hey. I’m happy if people engage with each other’s opinions. What I’m not happy about, is if people dismiss other opinions with stuff like ‘oh, obviously this person doesn’t know how comic books work’. That’s nonsense. Worse, it gets in the way of the conversation.

Hmm... where on Earth would I be getting a number on the people I’ve seen from? Oh yeah, I remember now - from what I’ve seen!

Those who have “pointed out” that Hydra is not synonymous with nazi are wrong. At best they’re being pedantic. Would you argue that Stormfront aren’t nazi just because they aren’t literally a branch of the German Nazi regime? Hydra was founded by Nazis, the original core members were ex-nazis, they espouse nazi ideals…

The only part of this controversy that offends me is the insistence that Hydra doesn’t equate to the nazis. Don’t kid yourself. It does. See my replies to Angrier Geek. Your argument basically is that this is just a storyline, and nothing to get upset over. That’s fine. Don’t undermine a defensible argument with a…

Still wrong. It started as a Nazi offshoot, and has returned again and again to those roots. Yes, it’s also been used as a KGB stand-in during the 60's and 70's, a neo-nazi stand-in in the 80's, a terrorist stand-in since 9/11, and now it’s become a neo-nazi stand-in again. Stucker, Zemo, Red Skull, Zola, all of these…

I’ve seen you (and others) make this argument in more than one thread, but it’s really disingenuous. Originally Hydra was founded by high ranking Nazi Baron Von Strucker at the behest of another Nazi, the Red Skull; it’s original cadre was drawn from Nazi ex-S.S. officers; their goals were nazi-style fascism and world…

“The good thing about the Alice’s of the world is now at least we can tell who has ever read a comic book in their life and who hasn’t.”

Do you think the Japanese villains are excluded from this conversation on purpose? I see it as just having no relevance to this discussion. Yes, Captain America has been racist in the past. Captain America has been a lot of things, as in all of these legacy books, and some of those things are deplorable and some are…

I think your idea of “objective” and mine are different. This is an obvious stunt to sell books. It is trying to sell more copies on the back of a twist which fundamentally goes against the history of the character as a symbol of shutting down antisemitism and oppression. A history which began with the Holocaust, and…

Stan says that about everything though. As far back as I can remember every time Marvel has faced fan backlash, they pull him out to say, “I’m cool with it.”, give him money then put him back in his closet.

I didn’t say it’s antisemetic because the creators are Jewish! I mean that there’s a lot of emotion invested in the character for many people, because of his reason for creation which has shaped what the character means to them.