This weekend, the X-Men comics’ new lead writer Marc Guggenheim and Arrow co-creator/showrunner gave a very telling interview. Talking about the future of the X-Men characters at Marvel he said “It’s more about the X-Men as heroes than the X-Men as a struggling minority fighting for their very existence… That existential crisis is tabled for the time being”…
Maybe everyone is interpreting everything politically? Maybe fans wish for a time when they didn’t realise their superhero comics had political elements?
Either way, Marvel Comics has been a focal point for this kind of discussion. And last week’s Marvel creative summit I am told by well connected sources who have proved themselves in that past there was more of a focus on what DC Comics internally called “meat and potatoes” comics that preceded their doubling down on the popular characters and bringing back old favourite takes with DC Rebirth.
Another sign of the K-shift. You know things are shifting K when leftists willingly self-censor their constant stream of self-congratulatory virtue signaling. Only fear of self-destruction can do that.
Again, pushing r precipitates K. How many Marvel fans who never cared about politics were disgusted by their sudden SJW shift, and are now forever poisoned against leftist narratives? They could have gotten away with it during an r-slide. But trying to pull it off during a K-shift was never going to be an option.
Enjoy this age, as the Apocalypse approaches, and society shifts toward K. Yes leftist whining is irritating. But that is the cost of being allowed to watch the rebirth of the human race, as we know it, and then enjoy it in all its majesty.
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[…] Marvel Comics Feels The K-shift […]
Here’s the thing about Marvel. People think Marvel is a comic company, and it’s not. Marvel is a licensing company that makes comics to have something to license. (Lately they’ve also become a movie studio which makes comics to have something to make movies about and then license.)
The comic guys seemed to be, for a time, under the illusion that they ran the show. The reality is, no comic makes money unless there is a toy, a backpack, a tshirt, or something else with a high margin that makes the brand licensable.
There wasn’t anything licensable about the crap they’ve been putting out. What’s been licensable? The old stuff. Even the movies are about the classic characters, not the new ones. The comic guys need to get on the train before Marvel shifts to a company that just makes movies to license things from.
I am always amazed at the economic angles behind the stuff we see today. Everything in front of us is so much more complicated. I never even realized that. Probably part of the reason r/K is not a household idea yet.
Anyone over 18 still reading or watching X-Men is itself a sign of r. What else to make of a society where parents unselfconsciously share the same interests as their children?
There was a time years ago where my response to this would be “Batman (AKA Bruce Wayne, “Matches” Malone etc.) is the paragon K-Strategist. The guy had in place a subconscious conditioning trigger so that in the event his will is suborned to another it awoke another personality within him that was so schizophrenic it was impossible to determine how he would react: and this personality was a lot more violent and funny and loved guns. It was one of the most fucking marvellously Batmanny things I’ve ever read.”
Now I don’t respond except with an intensifying, seething hatred for rabbits, movies and Ben Affleck.