Partisan politics need to be kept away from in comics for a change
Captain Comics of Scripps-Howard News fails to impress with what he has to say about Civil War's long-delayed finale:
And I do not look forward at all to if the MCU is going to be more politically charged now. Not that it hasn't ever been; there's plenty of political storylines to be found in many decades from the Golden Age till now. But they were far from being as vicious about it in past years as they are now, and with the way they've currently been shamelessly, mercilessly forcing their otherwise strictly one-sided political bias down the readers' throats, completely at the expense of any decent adventure stories and writing with real imagination involved, that's exactly why steering away from partisan politics would be much more welcome than what Capt. Comics suggests they might be up to. And if it is what they're going to do, to keep on stuffing the MCU full of political biases and overtones, well, that'll be bad, because then the damage will only continue being done.
Marvel's "Civil War" miniseries, which was originally scheduled to end in November, 2006, finally wraps up this month. A lot of people have loathed this "Marvel Event," which involved the publisher's entire line and split their superheroes down the middle in a political dispute over civil liberties vs. security. I've actually enjoyed it, and look forward to the new, politically charged landscape of the Marvel Universe. But I think everyone, including me, has been frustrated by all the delays.More than just the delays, I'm afraid. It's because of how it attacks US government policy and the War on Terror, the opposition to illegal immigration, and even airport security measures, as J. Michael Straczynski's last issue of Fantastic Four could suggest.
And I do not look forward at all to if the MCU is going to be more politically charged now. Not that it hasn't ever been; there's plenty of political storylines to be found in many decades from the Golden Age till now. But they were far from being as vicious about it in past years as they are now, and with the way they've currently been shamelessly, mercilessly forcing their otherwise strictly one-sided political bias down the readers' throats, completely at the expense of any decent adventure stories and writing with real imagination involved, that's exactly why steering away from partisan politics would be much more welcome than what Capt. Comics suggests they might be up to. And if it is what they're going to do, to keep on stuffing the MCU full of political biases and overtones, well, that'll be bad, because then the damage will only continue being done.
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