So I signed up for the free trial of DC Universe this week and I'm likely going to sub for at least the first month to watch a bunch of things I've never seen but heard good stuff about, like Young Justice. It was worth it just because I got to watch Death of Superman without buying it so that alone paid for the first month. I'll also get to watch the new Titans when it premiers so that's a plus as well.
Not quite as stoked on the comics front of it, there's just not a wide enough selection and I'm worried because they are saying more will be available in October for purchase. I don't want to buy comics, I just want to pay a monthly fee to read whatever strikes my fancy that particular day. I have been enjoying it so far though, re-reading Identity Crisis and the origin issues of Computo.
In other comic news I just learned about ComicGate last night and am just disgusted that these pathetic losers are infesting every goddamn thing I've ever enjoyed it seems. I get it, they don't like women and minorities and anyone not a straight, white male ... so just kindly fuck off to conserva-land and make your own comic company with whatever Aryan perfection you wish and see how well it does. DC and Marvel have always been diverse and supportive of people who are different (fuck, the X-Men are practically the poster children for the concept) and if you didn't pick up on that during your comics reading then I don't think you were paying any attention to the stories at all.
I agree completely.
I should have lost patience much sooner than this, but it was getting James Gunn fired that really torqued my 'nards.
Why the fuck do fascists even watch Star Wars or Star Trek or read Marvel or DC? Seriously. Why?
In Star Wars, the bad guys are space Nazis. It should be obvious that Star Wars was never meant to appeal to their ilk.
Star Trek has always been about promoting diversity from day one, and they broke a lot of barriers long before anyone else in popular media. Again, it should have been obvious that Star Trek was never intended to appeal to white supremacists, but still the white supremacists bitch and whine about Star Trek.
It should have been obvious that Marvel comics was never meant to appeal to white supremacists. For fuck's sake, Marvel comics introduced Afro-futurism to white audiences in the 1960s long before the term Afro-futurism was even coined. The first black female superhero came maybe a decade after that. Star Trek may have been first to show a woman of African descent in a position of military leadership, but Marvel did it much, much better two decades later in the pages of the X-Men comics. Any white supremacist who reads Marvel comics has to be stupid.
They don't belong in the nerd world. They don't belong in nerd culture.
Can't they just stay home and watch old copies of the original
Birth of a Nation or old Nazi propaganda films or something? But no, I have to listen to endless whining about "political correctness" this and "social justice warriors" that while actresses of color have to delete their Instagram accounts because of the massive amounts of abuse they get because they made the mistake of starring in a Star Wars movie or a Ghostbusters movie.
Fuck
those
assholes.
With a rusty crowbar.
Seriously, I'm just getting tired of this shit.
