It was a terrifying time to be alive, and I’m not joking.

Mister Mind was an amazing villain, one of the best produced by superhero comics, and “Monster Society of Evil” a classic story. Or , I guess it would be a classic, if only its creators hadn’t drawn racist caricatures on nearly every page.

Pure self interest. If Shapiro’s audience were to seriously turn against rape jokes, he’d stand to lose a buck.

I think Lee and Kirby amply demonstrated their good intentions towards the civil rights movement by creating characters like Black Panther and Vykin the Black (as well as demonstrated their relative enlightenment during the times), but they weren’t subtle. If you compare Kirby’s approach towards the X-Men as a civil…

What aggravates me most about the MLK/X argument is how grotesquely it demonstrates comic fandom’s collective ignorance of American racial issues by reducing complex and complementary cultural figures into Manichean good/evil. If it were Lee and Kirby’s attempt at a social analogue, it's an embarrassment that should…

True it is the high point, but it’s of a piece with stories like J. Jonah Jameson’s Spider-Slayer robot—where people are assholes.

Stan has told a lot of stories about his intent with the Marvel characters, and didn’t start telling that particular ones until the Nineties. He also at times claimed to be the sole creator, with Kirby executing his specific instructions, something that was disputed by everyone else who worked there at the time.

Had Lee and Kirby the poor judgement to release a series of magazines in 1964 satirizing Malcolm X as a megalomaniacal and treacherous racial supremacist, they would have been rightfully reviled.

“The X-Men of the comics started out as an oblique way for Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to talk about the race in early-’60s America.”

No, they didn’t. If you read the actual comics, and not fanboy interpolations invented decades later, you’ll see the race under discussion was The Master Race — Nazism — and it was hardly…

I found Almena to be an utterly unsympathetic shithead and actively rooted for him to serve time. Nine years is plenty.

That was a pretty awesome story.

That DP was outta line, man. Okay, Bale is a colossal douchebag, but the worst part of that recording were when the idiotically-named “McG” would bleat, “Hey guys, leave me out of it,” despite being director and ostensibly running the fucking set.

I took it as a joke about Americans’ tendency to stereotype other countries in uninformed, batshit and specific ways, like in that Woody Allen movie where Peter Falk wrote offensive radio scripts packed with weird outrageous slurs against Albanians.

Being a seventh grader with the sense to drop out of middle school and become a millionaire does.

She’s a millionaire.

It sucks.

I remembered Lee’s specific complaint was about Driving Miss Daisy, but out the entire of slate of director and picture nominees that year, the most diverse film appears to have been Born on the Fourth of July.

Gus.

He went out with Vanessa Bayer, too? What is up with this guy?

I first heard the joke about sex being like pizza from one of the editors of Sequential Tart, a website by women about comics.