I admit I was being dismissive, but argh, I can never articulate my points about this in an understandble manner.

Well, no, not stupid and lazy, just cowardly! I disagreed with your statement of the thesis.

Latin American here. Nothing effective about American goodness 'suddenly' turning into ruthless, subversive Nazism. Just business as usual.

If he really wanted to be a brave, smart writer, he wouldn't have resorted to alter reality. Like you said, the idea is that the heart of America is poisoned. Poisoned by what? You've always been HYDRA - American's ideals have always been a way to subject others to your will. There's no pureness to poison.

Because it was still brainwashing and that's, actually, a coward's way out.

But that reaction to the kiddification of comics has also meant the industry is reluctant to chase the child market now - the market that ensures that in 15 years, your characters will be nostalgia fodder instead of a forgotten hero.

And there's, you know, the entire comics medium outside of the US which has never really worked like the DC/Marvel model. Comics as an art-form are not in danger - but this particular iteration of it? Well…

Eh, the distribution model for US superhero comics is weird as fuck. IDK if the press would care if they changed it - why would they? The world at large doesn't care about comics.

What maddens me is that… dude, you're basically saying your company is obsolete (which it might well be! print media is dying off!) because you're saying your readers are old, out of touch and bigots.

We can say many things about Disney but one is true: they like maximizing profits. They have a corporate arm that's flailing - it won't really hurt their bottom line, but it won't really help them either.

Yeah, I don't see how earnest inspirational speeches are a bad thing for superhero comics.

The more they speak, the more I start to believe that the only hope for Marvel Comics is a Disney exec who's looking for a way to stand out and thinks 'make our R&D lab make money!' could be the way.

The thing is - look at Marvel's highest earning movies. The Avengers were a B-list team that nobody cared about and yet IM and Cap beat Batman & Superman. What made them succesful was, well, the movies. Not the comics.

And then say stupid crap like that that'd scare off the audience that would like your new characters… if they weren't already scared by how Byzantine comics are.

Eh, but the mainstream audience hasn't heard of most comics characters. And if they have, it's not because of the comics. I mean, people buying t-shirts at Target or old producers are irrelevant to whether or not Marvel comics are selling. Like, yes, they're not buying Spider-Gwen, but they weren't buying Invencible…

I love the game, but I greatly enjoy the idea of an Auditor realizing that

And then it gives you quests in other maps as well.

Yes, yes they do. IM3 passed the billion dollar mark and every movie featuring him after Avengers has passed that mark. Batman is the only other superhero who has managed that (in a solo movie).

But what Swinton mentions is true even for games that are very critically loved and have lots of fans - most people simply never finish most games. Check the achievements for any game - you can see that even the second or third achievement already see a drop off.

Eh, consider Tolkien. Orcs aren't poisonous themselves, but they are literally mockeries of the various sentient races and the land they live in is barren. But exactly, I was talking about their function - they're a horrific, deformed race that you can slaughter remorselessly.