Not Tired of Winning Yet X
At the moment, this is merely a rumor. At the moment, I am skeptical.
But even to hear a rumor that this might be so gives my heart the wings of an eagle.
Marvel is thinking of cutting back the PC political dreck that has for so long made their titles unreadable.
Cosmic Booknews says this
… it’s being said that Marvel Comics is going to go the “DC Rebirth route” and bring back the iconic characters as well as dropping the political BS angles that’s infected their comic line for the past few years.
This links in turn, to Bleeding Cool, which says this:
[At] last week’s Marvel creative summit I am told by well connected sources who have proved themselves in that past there was more of a focus on what DC Comics internally called “meat and potatoes” comics that preceded their doubling down on the popular characters and bringing back old favourite takes with DC Rebirth.
I am told, as Marvel brings back the X-Men line with a bang, to expect a return to more of a status quo for titles such as Thor, Iron Man, Hulk and more. A more familiar looking Marvel Universe by the autumn…
…I am told to expect that Secret Empire will be a bit of a last hurrah for this kind of storytelling from Marvel for a while.
This, in turn, links to an interview with Marc Guggenheim, star X-Man author, which basically says the opposite:
Don’t take this to mean the book won’t be political … though in what way it will be political is hard to tell.
Addressing criticism, Guggenheim goes on to say that he was “colorblind” when picking the team and didn’t take diversity into account, though he says he should have, and notes that he “loves the amount of diversity in Marvel’s line,” crediting Axel Alonso, the Marvel Editor-in-Chief who recently proclaimed that he was “the last thing from a social justice warrior, for the record.”
However,Guggenheim says that the very first story in the book will deal with “extremism,” and specifies that a story can be told about extremism without being about equality or civil rights.
Since SJW always lie, and always frame a loss as a win, it is impossible to tell what might possibly mean this elliptical gobbledygook written in that special non-language used particularly by the villains in an Ayn Rand novel.
But even the fact that a return from the fever swamps of Progressive madness and yawnfestive boredomorama is being discussed is a good sign.
Ponder this final parting shot:
What should fans make of all this, and does it signal the beginning of a rollback of Marvel’s push to be more progressive (to the extent that a corporate mass produced intellectual property factory controlled by a man who funded the campaign of and serves as an advisor to Donald Trump can possibly be)?
I don’t speak Loon, but I believe this verbal behavior is not incompatible with is the pre-surrender bafflegab noise of a Leftist about to concede and flee while pretending victory, in that he is implying without saying that his side was overwhelmed and undermined by a sinister Vast Rightwing Conspiracy. So he is a victim. Or something.
But you hear the word of power from the very lips of the lisping enemy.
Trump! His is this victory! His the crown! Glorious are his powers! Even comics bow to his indefatigable will! Bow and tremble! The loathsome foe fears even to speak his name! Name him only HE WHO MUST BE OBEYED!
Normally, I would not think a President of a Republic had such authority to influence the creative decisions of private corporations, but let us not be quick to dismiss the testimony of one of the sneering, lisping worm-tongues of the Left, shall we?
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
