Originally posted by samhain
Coming from the man who is currently butthurt over a fictitious gay character.
No, I'm mildly upset that they are ruining one of America's biggest icons. It won't affect my life personally.
As I said, I don't really read comics anymore. I might go back and read a classic story every once in a while but that's about it.
Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
No, I'm mildly upset that they are ruining one of America's biggest icons. It won't affect my life personally.As I said, I don't really read comics anymore. I might go back and read a classic story every once in a while but that's about it.
If all it takes to ruin a character for you is changing a catchphrase, then you've got bigger problems than comics.
Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
No, I'm mildly upset that they are ruining one of America's biggest icons. It won't affect my life personally.As I said, I don't really read comics anymore. I might go back and read a classic story every once in a while but that's about it.
Nobody really reads comic books anymore, at least not like they used to, they're also having trouble generating new fans, mostly I think down to the amount of back catalog a new reader has to go through, I think that's why most of the big titles had a soft reboot of sorts over the last decade or so. Nobody buys comic books anymore, but change a characters identity, whether you go from male to female, white to black, gay to straight and you'll get people talking all over social media.
Like the Playboy thing with them having a male centerfold, it's just an attempt to cash in.
Originally posted by samhain
Nobody really reads comic books anymore, at least not like they used to, they're also having trouble generating new fans, mostly I think down to the amount of back catalog a new reader has to go through, I think that's why most of the big titles had a soft reboot of sorts over the last decade or so. Nobody buys comic books anymore, but change a characters identity, whether you go from male to female, white to black, gay to straight and you'll get people talking all over social media.Like the Playboy thing with them having a male centerfold, it's just an attempt to cash in.
And people still aren't buying them. Because the audience that used to be there has been turned off, and there is no new "white whale" of readership.
Saying that it doesn't matter where a character was raised is just plain retarded.
If Kal-El had been raised in Stalin's Soviet Union Superman would have turned out much differently. The graphic novel and animated film "Red Son" shows this. I never thought it'd be possible for me to hate Superman but while I was watching that film I actually despised him.
So yeah, the fact Clark Kent was adopted and raised in the heartland of America by such loving, kind, honest, simple folks who had American ideals and passed them onto Clark played a huge role in exactly who Superman turned-out to be.
That's one reason I love the Smallville series so damn much. Clark is the real person... that is who he is. A small town farm boy with American ideals who goes on to become the greatest hero the world has ever known.
Superman is the disguise, not Clark Kent.
Clark is who he really is.
Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
^such a cuckold.....and you're wrong, as usual. 👆
You're obviously still butthurt over results of American Revolutionary War, ya limey.
He's not wrong.
Apple pie is considered to have originated in England. The Brits have a long history of making all manner of sweet and/or savory pies.
Baseball's origins lay in a game called "rounders". The similarities with rounders are there: you hit a leather wrapped ball with a metal or wood bat and you have to run around four bases to score.
Get mad about it now.