Avengers Assemble.....wait.....you old white guys.....not so much.

I am too old for comic books. As I am sure you guys are as well. The thing is I notice that there is really a case of arrested development in the younger crowd. Guys into their 30's are still buying and reading comic books. I mean I gave that up when I got hair on  my balls. Now I do love me a good Superhero movie since they are recreating the origin stories from the Jack Kirby/Stan Lee era of Marvel.

Now I hear that they have become strictly Social Justice Warriors. They made Thor into a girl! I mean really. They have Spider-man agonizing over beating up a criminal because he was a minority!

Vox Day has an interesting post about this. In it he talks about the foolishness of diversity in comics. He has substantial quotes from another blogger who is also very interesting. Jon Del Arroz writes the following:

"Marvel has a diversity problem.  

In that they have none in terms of diversity of thought. They are a pure social justice propaganda arm. This is dangerous when it comes to creating art, as if you have everyone thinking in lockstep, unable to get outside the box, you’ll have creative stagnation. More than that, when you turn children’s adventure fiction into adult message browbeating, you lose any semblance of fun that a product formerly had. It’s no wonder that sales have dropped by about half, when they have an entire writing core of every single one of their monthly writers hell-bent on a crusade of alienating half of the country in some social engineering through comics.  I don’t exaggerate my numbers either, and I did some leg work for you all so you might better make educated purchases, or lack thereof, of Marvel Comics.

A comic book mirror of our world?

The trailer for the next Marvel film is out. It is Captain America-Civil War. It is a war among the Superheros with Captain America and most of the Avengers on one side and Iron Man on the other. If you are familiar with the comic series you will know what it is about.

One interesting aspect is that several characters in the Marvel Universe are making their first appearance in this third entry in the Captain America cycle. Spiderman for one. He was the property of another studio and now the rights have reverted to Marvel. Also the Black Panther and Ant Man make an appearance.

I wonder how far they will take the metaphor. It looks interesting.

You want to see invisible pal....I got your invisible right here!

Sue Richards (the Invisible Girl) Reed why are you still on the computer? When are you coming to bed?
Reed Richards: I was just trying to email Victor. I still want to see if we can become friends. If we can salvage our friendship.
Sue Richards: Victor? Victor Von Doom. But he is a super villain Reed. Your mortal enemy. He wants to destroy you. Ever since college he has been jealous of you. Why would you want to contact him?
Reed Richards: You don't understand Sue. We had collaborated on so many projects. People marveled at our posts and comments on our scholarly papers. People were entertained by our collaborations. But he kept demanding money and contributions. Almost as though he was deserving of tribute. Like some sort of despot. And he is so rich. I didn't understand it. And he tolerated some fools who would post repetitive and abusive screeds on our scholarly works. It besmirched our collaborations to the point that I had to break away and do my own research.
Sue Richards That may be so. But now he only spews hatred and vitriol throughout his writings.  He is almost as bad as that black dude T'Nestle Cooter or whatever his name is. You can’t get him back Reed. Come to bed.
Reed Richards: In a little while Sue.
Sue Richards: Is it because you have been having too much elasticity in little Reed? I mean that happens to a lot of men. Even superheroes. I mean look at Iron Man. He should be called Putty Man cause he sure don’t have any Iron in his pants.I mean he is banging that skinny bitch and she is always sticking stuff up her butt and cleaning her colon or something. Maybe he is into anal or something. I don't understand. I don't understand anything anymore. It is all so very confusing. I mean how did my brother turn out to be black in the latest movie. What's up with that? Com’on I bet you can stretch it out right if you really concentrate. Or you can invent some super Viagra or something.
Reed Richards: Please Sue stop pressuring me!
Sue Richards: Well Mr. Fantastic you better be stretching yourself the way I want or my vag is really gonna get invisible, let me tell you.