• GeorgeZBush [he/him]
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    7 hours ago

    Oh God, grow the fuck up, dude. Literal fucking genocide being streamed on Tiktok for a year and NOW you're too hecking upset to write capeshit?

  • LaughingLion [any, any]
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    8 hours ago

    THE SUPERHEROES SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GOING AFTER THE ULTRA RICH AND POLITICIANS YOU FUCKING DULLARD

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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      6 hours ago

      i usually find superman boring because he's too OP and writers are bad, but at least luthor is usually evil af like real-life rich guys

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      12 hours ago

      I think part of the reason this all galls me so much more than 2020 or 2016 is because liberals are MORE haughty and 'distraught' because their perceived better human being lost, while said better human being was in the midst of aggressively aiding an ethnic cleansing.

      i don't believe in the basic goodness of my fellow Americans anymore

      Where've you been for the last...ever, clown boy? Just this millenium, this country has:

      -Butchered Iraq and Afghanistan on the basis of lies for their natural resources and to sate bloodlust from 9/11

      -Helped butcher Libya and Syria

      -Is actively helping butcher Palestine while continuing to screw over Ukraine to spite Russia

      And that's just the wars I can think of offhand, and many of these 'basically good people' were fine with them! We haven't even touched on how inhumanely this country treats the poor, or sexual/ethnic minorities, how immigration (if you're coming through the southern border) is so deranged I'm pretty sure it qualifies as human rights abuse, the endless deceit...this country hasn't been 'good' for as long as I've been alive, and it will only be 'good' when it is 'good and dead'.

      • TheLastHero [none/use name]
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        11 hours ago

        Who could imagine the nation that engaged in indigenous genocide, racial slavery, indigenous genocide again, more slavery, regional imperialism, global imperialism, social murder, and then more genocide would be lacking in basic human decency?

  • OptimusSubprime [he/him, they/them]
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    6 hours ago

    Uphold Alan Moore/Garth Ennis thought.

    Edit: Isn't Mark Waid the one who wrote Empire, the comic about the supervillain after he killed all of the heroes?

    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Empire

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

    Honestly i would hope that any artist of any type would take that feeling and incorporate it in their work in some capacity. I don’t believe that all art needs to come from tragedy or something terrible, but if one is a writer, one should be able to write when things aren’t great.

    I think this shows a lack of conviction in one’s form of expression. I do think being bummed out about the political condition is a valid response, but it seems kind of whack to me too.

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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      11 hours ago

      Kind of what I was thinking. I think if I want to be charitable he's not saying he can't write at all, or even that he can't write capeshit, but that he can't write from the optimistic perspective that these larger than life symbols can inspire us to do good and be better versions of ourselves. IE: Alan Moore was right all along (what a shock).

      What's sad is that it almost seems like his immediate instinct is that he has to phone in and fake that optimism because that's the limits of the genre he's working in. Personally I hope he does some soul searching and realizes that a cynical turn for his voice is entirely acceptable and not necessarily a decline.

      • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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        11 hours ago

        IE: Alan Moore was right all along (what a shock).

        people need to stop making Gandalf coded wizards and make Moore coded wizards

        What's sad is that it almost seems like his immediate instinct is that he has to phone in and fake that optimism because that's the limits of the genre he's working in. Personally I hope he does some soul searching and realizes that a cynical turn for his voice is entirely acceptable and not necessarily a decline.

        Agreed. I'm not pro-being cynical, but I am pro-whatever voice is. If your voice is cynical, then be cynical, but be authentically so. Be authentic and execute on the authenticity well.

      • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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        7 hours ago

        but that he can't write from the optimistic perspective that these larger than life symbols can inspire us to do good and be better versions of ourselves.

        IDK why he'd do that, couldn't he just write new stories where the superheros are hated by a largely bigoted and uncaring society?

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    12 hours ago

    like, no offense mark, but nobody in their right mind gives a shit about the quality of your work.

    this is like a senior food engineer with a masters in endocrinology for McDonald's corporate announcing that they're going to really start phoning it in on the new McRib reboot.

    like buddy, if you weren't already checked out, you fucked up.

  • HarryLime [any]
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    11 hours ago

    I am begging some of these people to notice that material causes exist

  • BeanBoy [she/her]
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    13 hours ago

    Someone should write superheroes but like super edgy and FUCKED UP because the world is so fucked up. That would be so COOL I would see those movies. I have so many ideas in my head for this I wish the world was ready for it.

  • miz [any, any]
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    12 hours ago

    liberal baby fills his diaper, perhaps wonders whether the point of philosophy should be to change the world not just to explain it

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    13 hours ago

    I'm choosing to believe that this man is writing letters to superheroes and is keeping us all updated.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 hours ago

      Writing a stern letter to Superman asking him why hasn't he nuked Washington DC

      • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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        7 hours ago

        Dear Superman,

        I have been a very good boy this year, will you pretty please use your laser vision on Jeff Bezos?

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      12 hours ago

      I would like to see them do an animated Hitman show

      But it has to be animated, because I can picture the cgi nightmare that Baytor would be and I hate it

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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    12 hours ago

    They were never good, not sure why you needed a 2nd trump win to see that. Cant wait for the reveal of who in the justice league voted Trump