“what I’m saying is that the whole point of the superhero myth (which is more or less melodrama)”

“And yes, Sam Wilson started out as a social worker out of costume, but he also didn’t go around suggesting group homes for the Red Skull.”

There were more than a few hardcore racists working in comics back in the day (probably today too, albeit more covertly). Look up Tyroc and Murray Boltinoff if you want to emit a long, slow sigh.

I swear to God this shouldn’t be hard to follow: I’m not saying that superheroes shouldn’t ever get into fights, I’m saying that going from zero straight to punching makes for shitty stories. “Heroes” who solve every problem through force are not exemplary characters in the least; we don’t think highly of cops who use…

I do get that there’s an intentional dichotomy, but that makes for a society that strains belief. By all means keep old forms and traditions and values as long as they’re useful, but when they stop being so, update them.

What, Austrians? There’s gotta be thousands of them, at least.

I like the way you think!

Yes, because that’s EXACTLY what I was recommending. smdh

Sure would be simpler on everyone (them included) if they would just say: “... hold on a second, I could try NOT being an asshole!”

In the first place, Sam Wilson WAS a costumed social worker back when the Falcon first debuted, so you’re talking smack about the Falcon.

Yeah, exactly, like that!

Here’s a page from the first issue of Soule’s “She-Hulk” #1. I’m not crazy about the art, but then again I don’t let the pictures distract me from the story. In this one, She-Hulk has been retained by the widow of a super-villain whose technology was appropriated by Stark Enterprises (without Tony Stark’s knowledge),…

Also be on the lookout for a writer named Charles Soule. In “real” life he’s a lawyer, and he brings that to comics: in particular, the fights that happen in his comics occur because discussion failed. Generally the characters have at least somewhat defensible viewpoints, but they come into conflict — which when you…

I’m gonna bring up something nerdy. For all the comic books I’ve read (and it’s been an embarrassingly high number), my biggest gripe is that characters don’t fight for good enough reasons. They too rarely try to talk things out first; far too often it’s meet / stand in each other’s way / fight. The thing is, they…

That would work. T’challa would of course initially reject the challenge as idiocy that nobody actually honors any longer, but for some reason (pride? the Wakandan people losing faith in him? some combination?) he feels he needs to go through with the challenge anyway.

“Okay so for a country as progressive and advanced as Wakanda was, it’s dumb as shit to decide who’s going to lead it by having a bunch of dudes play Wakandan Ninja Warrior on a slippery mountaintop.”

Wanna see what cunning anthropologists have to say about Teutonic people? Trust me on this, make 45 minutes to watch this, or at least give it a couple minutes to see if you’d like it. You know how anthropological films about “primitive” cultures always have a condescending streak to them that’s difficult to conceal?…

Or “30 Rock”, I guess.

Well, not ALL white men. Some of them are just extremely silly:

:-(