The Four Color Media Monitor

Fox News highlighted Dixon's comment on how modern Marvel is "embarrassed" by Frank Castle, whose stories Dixon scripted in the early 1990s, to the point of dumbing down the character's newer tales horrifically:

Comic book writing veteran Chuck Dixon called out Marvel for undermining and minimizing one of its most popular heroes, the armed vigilante known as the Punisher. According to Dixon, the company is "embarrassed" by the "working class" hero and his appeal within military and police ranks.

The Punisher was a gun-wielding anti-hero created by Marvel Comics in 1974. He is described on Marvel’s website as a "Family man turned crime-fighting vigilante, Frank Castle embodies the persona of the Punisher to avenge personal tragedy and ensure all criminals receive the justice they deserve."

It's honestly curious they don't mention the Punisher's very own creating writer, Gerry Conway, in this article, and how Conway himself has regrettably joined the negative side, declaring his own creation with the late Ross Andru an embarrassment. Or newer scriptwriter Jason Aaron's role in the recent monstrosities, and he's quite a SJW himself. Those who care should know there's been a sad trend over the past decade of veterans still around who're willing to throw their achievements of the yesteryear under the bus for the sake of virtue signaling to the PC crowd. Exactly why it's bad they're being so openly political on social media.

Dixon, who has been in the comic book industry for decades, particularly in writing comics about The Punisher, has criticized how Marvel has handled the character in recent years. On a recent episode of his podcast, he shared theories to a fan about why Marvel may have grown to dislike one of their most popular characters.

Dixon first claimed that Marvel feels uneasy about this character because of his working-class origins

"They don’t like him for the same reason that DC doesn’t like Guy Gardner and fans like the Punisher for the same reason they like Guy Gardner," noting that "There’s very few superheroes that have blue collar origins" and are "average guys driven to extremes."

He added that "People response to these characters because of those origins and because they have blue collar origins — when they’re written correctly — they say stuff and do stuff that other comic book characters won’t. They don’t have the same mores, the same code," he said.

There is, however, a very, very sad problem characters like Gardner now suffer from in hindsight: leftist writer Gerard Jones, who was later convicted for illegal child porn possession and spent at least 4 of 6 years in prison, effectively tainted Guy during the early 90s with some pretty awful ingredients that cast a shadow over the 1992-96 solo book. And even what isn't written by Jones was tainted by the stench of Emerald Twilight, which resulted in a change to the solo comic where DC's editors mandated Guy couldn't be a Green Lantern anymore, and he was practically retconned for a time to an alien! With that kind of idiocy, it's no wonder Guy's potential as a storytelling vehicle's been damaged. I know Dixon wrote an origin for Guy that on its own was pretty good. But it was largely mocked by the editorial mandates that came after, and that's why Guy's potential, again, was scuttled.

Dixon insisted, "The main reason they wanted to get rid of the Punisher is because they hated the Punisher and they hate you for liking it. It’s that simple."

The same could also be said about Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson - they hate you for embracing their marriage, and to date, under C.B. Cebulski and company, are still dangling the carrot with a will-they-or-won't-they restore the marriage direction that's leading nowhere, and can't be trusted until they actually make it happen and show it will through promo illustrations. But as realists understand, it's unlikely it will, and exactly why Marvel should've closed years ago, if that's what it took to prevent the ghastly wasteland they've become ever since, with horrific tons of woke waste littering the landscape.

So how come some veterans like Dixon don't make the case for Marvel/DC closing, if that's what it takes to improve the situation, by giving all these classic creations some rest and recuperation? In addition, plenty of undeserving scribes wouldn't be able to abuse Marvel/DC's stable of characters anymore. The best ending for Frank Castle was probably around 1997, when his last solo title came to an end. Why not advocate for closing Marvel/DC's publishing arms as we know them for the meantime, and then go about finding a business executive who actually cares enough about the properties to buy out the comics? I've asked it before, and it's always worth asking again.

Labels: bad editors, dc comics, good writers, Green Lantern, history, marvel comics, moonbat writers, politics, Punisher, Spider-Man, women of marvel