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⌈ Secret Post #2499 ⌋

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[Transformers]

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[Sherlock Holmes/C. Auguste Dupin]

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[Pacific Rim]

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[Obscurus Lupa Presents]

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[k-pop]

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[Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart]

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[Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who]

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[Teen Wolf]

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I love the way they talk about the concept of the book:

The writer added that Ms. Marvel will be “about the universal experience of all American teenagers, feeling kind of isolated and finding what they are” but “through the lens of being a Muslim-American” with superpowers.

I love that because it's exactly what the Marvel idea of a comic book has always been. It says to me that this is not just there to bring in a female audience. It says that telling these kinds of stories is exactly what Marvel should be doing and that it makes complete sense for Marvel to do this because telling these stories is what Marvel does and has always done. That there's a recognition that this is just as much the archetypal Marvel experience as Spiderman is. That the themes and the experience - the themes that Marvel is built around - are just as present and just as valid and universal whether it's a story about a Pakistani girl or a nebbish from Queens. The story is different, the person is different, but it's still a story for everyone. And the Marvel story is a story about everyone.

Plus it gives me hope that they're not going to totally fuck it up.

They'll fuck it up, they're Marvel, it's what they do. But at least they try harder at not alienating fucking everyone than DC. Which is a shame because DC's best stories far outstrip Marvel's. (And DC's worst stories are better than Marvel's worst, too.)

Boooooo, Marvel forever

I'm sure it won't be perfect, but hardly anything is. I still really like that they're trying, and (it appears) trying seriously.

You have no idea how much it pains me as a DC fan that DC has been doing so poorly PR-wise. I wish they would stop fucking up so bad, because I love DC to fucking death (especially B and C listers like Booster Gold) and I think the creative teams, the fans and comic readers in general deserve better.

DC's editorial board is repeating a lot of the same mistakes Marvel did in the 90s. I'm hoping this will go away in a few years.

Edited 2013-11-06 01:27 (UTC)

I definitely agree with that (even if I do prefer Marvel). I think both companies being good is good for the whole industry.

It really is just the same mistakes endlessly reduplicated. It's kind of infuriating in a way that they just can't get their shit together.

There is always 2000AD you know.

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