Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5927539-20150421174832/@comment-1755931-20150425191022

BIONICLEToa wrote: It never came across to me that iceman had the possibility to be gay (especially since he's had relationships with other women before). It seems like something they are just introducing.

I agree characters need more modernization, but I don't think making such dramatic changes like this are necessary. In fact, it feels to me like a lot of comics are trying to throw things out there in order to make them interesting, like making Silk, for example. They didn't really show any indicators she existed until she was actually introduced. Do I like the character? Sure. But it feels like cheating when they add something into the canon without any real indicators that it's gonna happen.

I dunno. It just feels unnatural to suddenly make such a huge change. Sure, comics stand on making such huge changes, but at LEAST try to build up to it. Otherwise, it feels out-of-the-blue, and personally, I like to know what is coming to the character.

And building it up dosn't mean people will know what's gonna happen. If anything, a good writer would try to bring conflicting evidence, so people begin to doubt. And I love that. I love to speculate on what's gonna happen, and see if the writer is gonna go where I think he's going or do something entirely different. It's great writing. Throwing something out of the blue may surprize us, but when you look back on it, it may conflict previous evidence, and consistency is important when establishing such a huge universe like Marvel is doing. Well, as others have said, there has been a decent amount of past evidence. (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/04/22/how-that-all-new-x-men-iceman-scene-could-have-gone). And while I agree with some of your points I must ask, what evidence would there be of Silk? She was locked in a bunker.

I'm glad to hear you're not one of those purist "Spider-Man should always work at the Daily Bugle and date Mary Jane and be like x" or "Marvel's ruining comics with their black Cap/female Thor/evil Iron Man" people. You have some pretty good points. :)