Sad. The appeal of comics when I read them (way back when dinosaurs roamed) was their innocence. The hero (before he donned his superhero costume) would say things like Great Scott! and “Gee!”
They used to be for kids.
Now they’re turning into outlets for left wing, new age thinkers. I mean, come on...Spider-man, they now say, didn’t get his powers from that radioactive spider, after all! The new line is that there is this spider god, see, and he wanted Peter to be next in line. Recently, they had him die and “evolve” into a higher species of spider.
Sigh.
There is at least one atheist fundamentalist working for the majors (DC at least, don’t know if he’s written for Marvel).
He boasted of his efforts to tackle the superstitions of religion in an article he wrote for Arthur Magazine (a free leftist/entertainment monthly that abruptly ceased publication this year).
Wonder how much that Spider-man/god plotline sprung from that sort of a mindset.
“Arthur” was pretty wacked out (with atheist articles on how to adopt all sorts of “neutral” ceremonies into your day and pleas for totally killing the power grid and essentially living in caves. Also how to make weapons for protests.
There used to be PDFs of the issues online. Don’t know if they are still around.