Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5041674-20170806073323

Look. I love Marvel. They're one of the very reasons I love comic books in general. But... They're driving me crazy.

I took a good look at some of the covers of recent Marvel comics. Cell phones on the covers, everywhere. Everywhere! Take a look inside, and you have characters claiming to be geniuses but always seem to never understand what's going on. This is a major problem with modern comics: there's too much telling, and not enough showing. Also, nearly every character is ranting about politics, even in the most innappropriate times Like in Champions #11, they started ranting about white priviledge over a DESTROYED LOS ANGELES. That's not only innappropriate, that's psychotic. And none of them even show much remorse about the millions of lives lost.

She-Hulk meanwhile has to deal with... YouTubers? Good gosh where the heck are the SUPERVILLAINS? We don't read comic books for non-issues. There's all this talk of "white priviledge" and "segregation" but none of it is shown in the comics. Literally none. They're just ranting about politics for no darn reason. Might I add that many of these characters are so 1-dimensional and "flawless"? It feels like the writers are afraid to make a minority character flawed, and thus you create a larger, worser flaw in itself.

So what happens if you have a legitimate complaint and take it to one of the writers? Suddenly it becomes a political attack, and they say "we don't want folks like you reading our comics." They shut readers, CUSTOMERS, out because they simply complain! It's like they want their business to fail! Also, if you're a right-leaning moderate like me, you start to go crazy over all this "makeminemilkshake" insanity going on. Yes, women helping with comics is great. But look at the writing, the portrayals, and the editing. The editing is sloppy (there's tons of typos), some of these characters don't even feel like their original selves (Spider-Man is a clown now), and you got all these forced political messages.

Remember when comics were more subtle and smarter? X-Men were a metaphor for segregation on blacks. Marvel didn't introduce minorities to say "oh hey we're trendy and we're cool, here's a minority character!" No. Marvel made minority characters because they just wanted to have a fun character who happens to be black, asian, mexican, etc. None of Marvel's characters are fun. Ms. Marvel was fun in her first few issues, and things declined and now she's just pointless political dribble.

And thus, with Marvel making sloppy uninteresting comics, and shutting out fans saying they don't want them to read your comics, they lose sales. Marvel doesn't even care. They don't care that DC is starting to win over them after a few decades of being behind. They don't care that their comics are segregating customers. (There's a bit of irony for ya, they complain about segregation yet they segregate customers based on pointless political views.) Marvel's comics have become a club, and loyal readers, just for having different views, have been shut out.

Which is why I refuse to support them anymore, besides the Star Wars comics (which are actually good. My brother bought them and I was surprised at their quality). I won't them until they stop calling well-intentioned conservatives fascists, until they stop shutting people out, until they start actually writing quality stuff, and until they start actually caring about their darn consumers.

If this doesn't stop, then good. Let them go bankrupt. Current Marvel deserves to trashed, for all the toxicity they've brought upon their fans. I hope it would serve as a lesson so they can see the error of their ways. Write minorities more interesting, stop making Captain America a freaking nazi, and overall, care about the consumer. Please.

'Nuff said, though. I'm gonna go back to watching MCU films, AKA actual good Marvel content. Peace, guys. 