Champions #10, out now from Marvel, features a story where the remaining members of the team, Spider-Man (Miles Morales), Totally Awesome Hulk and Viv Vision, try to find their missing team mate, Inhuman member Ms. Marvel, in the United States of Hydramerica.It's not too difficult to guess Hydra, in this tale, serves as their stand-in for right-wingers. And here's the bizarre part:
This is because, of course, Inhumans are being rounded up and placed in internment camps by thedefinitely not NazisHydra and HydraCap.
Champions, by Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos, decides to follow the story that many of the Inhumans do not want to escape the camp. They do not wish to live their lives on the run in a Hydramerica that would hunt them down, and those that wish to remain fear should some escape, then they would face reprisals from their fascist prison masters.The story sounds like 2 sides of the same coin. On the one hand, Secret Empire is more or less another in Marvel's list of stridently anti-conservative metaphors. On the other hand, they abuse the characters who're meant to serve as their idea for what the goodies should be like. Here's a few panels from the pages of the crossover that I found:
In fact, in this page we see here that one Inhuman who we see throughout the issue explain this to the team, and in fact says that within the camp at least they are well cared for.
Which is a bit odd seen as at the beginning of the issue she witnesses one of the robot guards incinerate two teen Inhumans on the spot for merely discussing the possibility of escape.
There's a few more panels at the link. I think the 2nd of these pictures comes from the Steve Rogers-as-Hydra-agent title, and overall, what they're doing here is utter abuse of the Inhumans. And they said earlier they wanted to promote the Inhumans as a substitute for X-Men, because the upper management didn't want them creating any new characters? Gee whiz. No matter how you look at this, their current propaganda won't help the Inhumans get anywhere.
It's clear Waid's run out of ideas and talent, and he'd be better off retiring just like Chris Claremont may have done. And as anybody who's a realist is aware, there's little chance Marvel will cease with the anti-conservative tactics even after this whole mess has run its course.
The entire point of cultural Marxism is that you will find yourself unable to create stories other than those what fit the political narrative. Writers are needed who have been immunized from the SJW virus. Good luck with Disney holding the reins.
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