They may be the home plate of outcast heroes and freaky mutants , but does Marvel Comics really detest flower people ? That ’s the charge presently being laid against the publisher , and it ’s real enough to get a response .
The theory was ab initio put forward by funny critic Abhay Khosla , whopointed out a specially unexpected scene in the sixth issue of the publisher ’s gamey profile Secret Invasion series :
Finally ! Finally , we get page after page attacking the true enemy : LIBERAL PROTESTERS .
Where the screwing did that shit come from ? ?
Page after page , not of the first or second or even third exit , Thomas Nelson Page after pageboy of the SIXTH military issue — it was n’t spent step up the stake of the comic , it was n’t spent dealing with characters we care about , it was n’t spent paying off earlier scenes . The flaming SIXTH egress was spent introducing an entirely new cast of chaff - men liberal characters , and then attacking them for being naive about the nature of evilness .
First , permit me just say , on a political level , this comedian can go fuck itself . You know — one pretty easy room a person could read this comic if they were so inclined is that it equates protesting wars with supporting terrorism . I do n’t think the the great unwashed who made the amusing think that . I do n’t think they were think at all . I do n’t think they made a big antecedence of thinking .
The point was recentlypicked up by the blog at comics news site Newsarama.com , where other examples of the publisher ’s suppose anti - hippie order of business were expose :
[ In 2006 ’s Civil War , i]t was the bottle - throwing , “ baby - killer”-shouting demonstrators that attack Johnny Storm and put the momentum of Marvel America behind Superhero Registration Act , and it was a Cindy Sheehan - corresponding grieving female parent who act as Tony Stark ’s scruples , as he embraced his issue fascism ( The furnishing of these character are those of the anti - war left , from the Vietnam warfare and the Iraq War , but , strangely , they were pushing rightward rather than to the left wing ) … Those damn hippies were again stimulate problem for the Marvel heroes in Avengers : The Initiative # 19 , a tale entitle “ V - S Day , ” dealing with the closing of the Skrull scourge . A Washington family was swarming Jocasta and a partially surviving member of the Skrull Kill Krew , stopping them from taking down the Skrulls in their midst .
heartsease signs , beads , braid , beards , John Lennon glass in , “ Make Love Not War” … there ’s nothing elusive about the depiction of the Embrace Changers in the scene .
A pretty flimsy case ? Not forsome fans , who were perfectly convinced by the line of reasoning , and ready to be breach :
He ’s done his best to rick the Marvel cosmos into an unreadable , unrecognizable realness . He erases years of continuity for characters he does n’t wish . Hell , he pass over out most mutants because he always hated the XTC - human being . He killed Captain America because he did n’t care the way he represented America . Hell , he banned all persona from smoking due to a personal issuance .
Odd that a right annexe - freak like him has take it upon himself to centrally design every character in his universe , and contrive them extremely bad . Well , given the right hand ’s tendency towards dictatorship , it is n’t that peculiar .
Quesada was so moved by fans believe that Marvel was , in fact , follow some anti - hippie agenda that he felt impress to answer – double , onTwitter :
This article misses the point , I hate everybody .
I sleep together when people prove to interpret more into our poppycock than is really there . We sit down around and go , “ Wow , we had no idea that ’s what we meant ? ”
A probable story , Joe . After all , if you really meant it , then why only refuse it on Twitter … where only 140 - character - fetish hippie will see it ?
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