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Dixon was interviewed by Fox News about his rightful disappointment with Marvel and DC. He believes that while DC's obviously sunk very low in terms of wokeness, Marvel took it to all new levels:

Comic book veteran and former "Punisher" and "Batman" writer Chuck Dixon said that the "Big Two" comic book companies, Marvel and DC, have both been invaded by woke politics.

"I think both DC and Marvel are politicized but Marvel's taken it to a whole new level. They killed Tony Stark as Iron Man. They've gender swapped and race swapped every character they can," Dixon told Fox News Digital in an interview.

"DC’s bad, but Marvel's worse."

Whether Marvel's worse, it's vital to remember DC preceded them to a certain extent with race-swapping, and they did it in one of the most offensive ways possible: using Brad Meltzer's Identity Crisis miniseries of 2004 - and Infinite Crisis by Geoff Johns/Greg Rucka/Judd Winick the following year - as a setup for replacing at least a few white characters with an Asian for the Silver Age Atom, a Black for Firestorm, and a Latino for Blue Beetle, now the subject of a new movie with strong hints of wokeness abound. The Black Firestorm and even the Asian Atom have mostly vanished of recent, despite all the efforts of the MSM to sugarcoat and promote them at the expense of their predecessors (though the unsuccessful Justice League movie certainly saw fit to use the latter for a cameo). I remember the original Question, Vic Sage, was even replaced in the 2000s with Renee Montoya from the Batman books, all for the sake of shoehorning a lesbian into the role of the character Steve Ditko originally created in the late 1960s. And if memory serves, there was even a homosexual character introduced to take the role of Aqualad. Or, said character was changed to meet that checkbox goal. Marvel was just following up on DC's own antics when they did, and clearly bent on aping them in that regard.

Dixon had more to say about Frank Castle's situation:

"Punisher, I think, is totally a lost cause. They've destroyed the character. I mean, they ripped the guts out of it in a way that for comic fans, discontinuity is so important is irreparable," he said.

"I think it's unique in publishing to take a character that you own, a character that you've made money off of and that people like and just entirely destroy it and try to erase it from the readers' memory. I've never seen anything like this."

Dixon said that while the politics at DC was still visible, the ideologues were strongest at Marvel. "Marvel, it's like no holds barred," explaining that Disney's ownership of Marvel may contribute to the conformity in thought.

No doubt, Disney's fully okay with their trajectory based on the woke direction their own "family entertainment" is headed on. But it's not just Punisher who's a lost cause, and has been post-1997. Even Spider-Man could arguably be a lost cause, based on the refusal to restore the Spider-marriage, and under C.B. Cebulski, they continue to lead everyone around by the nose, and no clear answer whether they'll reverse one of the most atrocious storylines of the mid-2000s. Why, even Iceman from the X-Men is a lost cause, seeing how they refuse to abandon the whole LGBT retcon they've put Bobby Drake through. But Dixon has surely got to be doing wishful thinking with the following:

Dixon said that while DC was not perfect, Batman as a character was too valuable to be "ruined."

"They haven't totally ruined. Batman has risen from the ashes many, many times in the past," he said. "He's been rebooted and reborn many times over his near 100-year history. So, I wouldn't worry about Batman."

Unfortunately, even Batman may have been really mangled this time around, and it's foolish to think it couldn't happen, recalling there was a storyline where it was implied Bruce Wayne was bisexual a year ago. The whole notion DC couldn't possibly ruin their prime cash cows is naive. After all, they tarnished Superman's legacy of recent with the whole Son of Kal-El as a LGBT protagonist modification.

Dixon points out how plenty of people are now turning to independent productions instead of the mainstream. While this is a positive direction, it's still a terrible shame nobody sensible with the money to buy out the Big Two will take the challenge of trying to do so. Until then though, what's certainly a shame is that they didn't close down their publishing arms years before, if that's what it took to avoid arrival at the humiliating situation we now witness at both.

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