Posted on 12/21/2022 12:27:45 AM PST by Main Street
Did you know that Superman's son is bisexual? So is Batman's sidekick, Robin, and lots of other superheroes created by Marvel and DC Comics.
The author of the bisexual Superman story says gay people write to say they "burst into tears" when they saw that the characters had become gay.
While it's nice to make LGBTIQ+ people feel more welcome in the world, not everyone is happy.
They became bisexual "out of nowhere!" complains comic creator Eric July in my new video. "They make it seem as if the only way that you can relate to a character is because you're gay and that character's gay, which is nonsense!"
July, who is Black, says you don't have to share the same traits as a superhero to enjoy the character. His favorite was Batman. "I ain't got Bruce Wayne money, and I'm not rich! And I'm certainly not white."
July points out that there have long been gay comic superheroes, like Northstar. But what's new and dumb is that DC and Marvel are changing the identity of established characters.
A new Batman is Black. There's a new Spiderman-like character, except she's a lesbian who uses a wheelchair. Iron Man is now a Black teenage girl. Really.
Maybe this is progress.
"When I was a kid," I say to July, "all the characters were white. It's a good thing more are non-white."
"But they've been just reduced to being an item to pander to certain audiences that aren't really buying into it," July responds.
No, they sure aren't. Marvel and DC had the bestselling graphic novels. Now the best sellers are from Japan. Often, they aren't even in color, yet they outsell Marvel and DC. The American-made books aren't even in the top 20.
"They turned off their audience by ... hyper emphasizing the social justice element." says July.
Marvel made its evil character M.O.D.A.A.K. resemble Donald Trump. They hired leftist writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to create a Captain America series. Coates made the villain, Red Skull, a bizarre version of Jordan Peterson.
Instead of just saving lives, today's comic superheroes lead protests.
The cover of a Superman comic shows Superman's son leading a school "strike for climate."
It's so stupid! Superman, with all his powers, could solve climate change all by himself. But now he holds a protest sign.
"These guys are writing material for their peers," says July. "So even if the Son of Superman falls completely off the charts like it did, right? It's still a win in their mind."
I thought that capitalism would be a break on the silliest of the woke world. But in this case, they're just sabotaging their own projects. The bisexual Superman series was cancelled after 18 issues.
Marvel came up with two not-so-super heroes named "Snowflake" and "Safespace." Really.
"Snowflake is nonbinary and goes by they-them," says the writer in Marvel's video introducing the characters. Fan reaction to the preview video was pretty bad. Marvel decided not to release Snowflake and Safespace.
I wanted to ask Marvel and DC why they seem fine with losing market share. Aren't their investors angry?
Neither company would talk to me.
At least their stupidity gives new opportunities to independent creators like Eric July. He's raised $3.7 million to fund a new superhero comic book, "Isom."
The market will decide if people want to pay for new characters like him.
But July understands something that Marvel and DC apparently no longer do: Capitalism means giving people what they want.
Notice they're showing no real concern about plummeting sales, or doing anything to stop the bleeding out. Notice too they never cared about all the destruction they have wrought upon our society. As for Diversity.They have any interests of diversifying minority majority countries, populations, cities, neighborhoods, or sport teams.
Like parasites sucking the lifeblood out of a body, they drain it till it dies, and then move to another host, and start the process all over again. They see these businesses as just platforms and tools to advance their narrative and agenda. Their real job is to disseminate their propaganda by any means necessary.
If Marvel, DC, or Disney crumbles into dust; fine with them. They accomplished their mission of destroying another American created company or institution. They will take their agenda and infiltrate and infest other institutions and company platforms to take its place.
Wonder when they will go really edgy and take the next step—a pedophile superhero.
The leftists exploit everything from churches to comic books. They are parasites, like you said. They uses up an institution until it is just another propaganda outlet of the Marxists.
They use up an institution...
Read Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, one of Larry Niven's earliest stories.
Yes, and about Batman also. When I was in elementary school (50’s) he was routinely called Buttman.
That picture makes me so sad.
This thread could have also been titled... “Comic books that should be thrown in the trash”
Marxism is their religion and they use all avenues to promote and seek converts.
Leftists take over corporations by controlling HR. By controlling Human Resources - and those departments are trained and dominated by CRT queer types - they reshape the entire organization. They control who is hired and fired. They control the training and they seek and destroy anyone objecting.
They love lawsuits over MeToo or alleged racism because they can “remake the culture” of a company in response. They even control other industries as they won’t hire say a law firm u less that law firm is “sufficiently diverse.”
So we see things like an ad by Gillette for their razors where they bash men and toxic masculinity. We see an ad for a booze company with a grandfather putting making on his transgender teen grandson. (These both exist. Google it.)
Those asking decisions can point to their wokeness.
But what if the actual business? What if profits?
If the companies tank, the CEOs get big buyouts. They’ll blame other factors. Anything but accept responsibility.
Comic books are absurdly woke. Then if fans complain they bash the… audience. Yes the fan base is suffering from racism, homophobia and is “toxic.” The artists or actors in the movies will call out fans. “If you don’t want a gay Superman and are homophobic, we don’t want you as a fan.” This happened with Star Wars recently, among others.
So now anyone questioning why they’re making garbage that loses money is part of the toxic fan culture. Since they’re spreading the gospel of leftism, they’re immune from all criticism. One black woman woke film director who made a bomb of a movie blanked the company for not promoting it properly and the just flat out said Disney could afford to lose the money.
Andrew Breitbart used to say politics is downstream of culture. All of the comic book wokeness is to indoctrinate the young to the leftist ideology to control the narrative. They’ll not only make up new characters but go back and redefine existing characters to the globo-homo agenda. So cousins Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street are now redefined as a married gay couple. So you don’t even own your nostalgia as they’ve reimagined it.
The Chinese want our ‘leaders’ chosen based on sexual kink, skin color and ideology for positions in government, military, technology and entertainment.
This comic move is a winner for them.
Not my Captain Marvel nor boy Billy Batson. SHAZAM
Thankfully my kids won’t let their kids watch or read this shxt and they’ve explained why it’s crap.
weird! obv it is weird given the topic but “become gay” are we finally getting away from the notion born that way physical science actually exists? I know we are two gay gene hoaxes later and the 30yo identical twins studies making it very unlikely to ever appear. This seems weird to me given Team Narratives perpetual position.
WOKE =
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“I think we knew that about Robin since the 1950s.”
ROTFLOL!
What color Kryptonite does Superman have be exposed to before he can get a tattoo or piercing?
>> They love lawsuits over MeToo or alleged racism because they can “remake the culture” of a company in response.
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So what about stockholders suing for losing money and devaluing the stocks?
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