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Warner Todd Huston at Breitbart lets know that DC's still allowing the awful Tom Taylor to shove additional lectures into their comics, with the "World's Finest" duo now on the receiving end of Taylor's unendurable wokeness:

DC Comics is now featuring a woke Superman lecturing Batman about his “privilege” in a recent issue of the Dark Knight’s flagship series Detective Comics.

The woke-scolding is turned up to 11 in Detective Comics #1091, as extreme leftist author Tom Taylor doles out a slew of partisan talking points to his readers.

Not only does Supes castigate Bruce Wayne/Batman about his white privilege and wealth, but two other themes threaten him in the issue. Batman struggles with his mental health due to years of crime fighting and tragedy, and the creator of a youth-restoring drug intends to give her concoction to the rich so they can live long enough to see the global warming damage their wealth has caused. No, really.

As to Superman, his lecture occurs after Batman tells him that he is contemplating taking a new drug created by inventor Scarlett Scott. The drug supposedly prolongs life and gives older people the same vitality and strength that they had when they were in their 20s. But it is very expensive, so, because he is wealthy enough to afford the drug therapy, Bruce Wayne is thinking of taking the drug so that he can fight crime for an extended period of time.

Batman explains the drug to Superman and says, “I’ve been offered something. A medical breakthrough. It’s rare. Only available to a select few. It slows aging.”

“It sounds good,” Superman replies, according to Fandom Pulse.

The Man of Steel, though, catches on that Batman has some reservations about taking the drug, and then gets preachy, saying, “Ah. The guilt. Of course. Bruce, this country does many things well. But it leaves too many behind.”

Superman continues his rant with a dig at Bruce for being rich: “Your wealth and privilege already ensure you have a greater life expectancy. You can eat better. You can access the best levels of health care.”

The inventor of the drug also has an ultra-woke agenda, in Taylor’s tale. According to Batman News, Scarlett Scott tells Bruce Wayne that “her plan is to make the ultra-wealthy care about the planet more by making them live long enough to experience the consequences of their actions.”

Now considering Clark Kent's often been depicted as pretty well off himself, far from a pauper, and living along with Lois Lane in tidy apartments and other such living quarters, that's just one reason why this is supremely silly and selfish for Taylor to have Superman lecture Batman about wealth and privilege. In the Pulse entry, it also reminds what Taylor did to the Jonathan Kent character, who's a pretty recent creation:

Not only were covers unveiled where Jonathan Kent Superman was protesting against climate change to make a leftist run out of the book, but he also turned the character gay by having him make out and even, at one point, mock the Christian sacrament of marriage by implying Superman would gay marry this other boy.

“So we have a young bi guy who also is just the sweetest, most empathetic, nurturing guy who doesn’t wanna hurt anyone,” Taylor bragged about the situation to AIPT. “And I think that’s far more heroic than somebody punching a supervillain in the face.”

Does that mean the hero's wrong to sock even a villain who's physically/sexually threatening innocent women and children? What such laughable statements do is excuse the behavior of the most evil of criminals, and imply Jack Kirby and Joe Simon were wrong to depict Capt. America punching Hitler in the face on the premiere issue of Captain America Comics from 1941. Also:

In Detective Comics #1091, just two issues into his new run on the book, Tom Taylor has waded into politics again. While the word “white” seems to have been left out, the implication is clear what Tom Taylor intends from a passage where Batman is mulling over using experimental medical technology to heal a condition that’s killing him.

One would think that he’d be worried about the experimental nature itself, but no, it’s an implication of white guilt. [...]

These talking points are usually accompanied with the word “white” attached, but it appears as if DC editorial at least wanted to make it a little less on the nose with Tom Taylor stopping a comic in its tracks to lecture a reader on politics.

Regardless, this is what DC Comics hires when they put Tom Taylor on a book. Now Batman’s main title is mired with political lectures instead of being a fun book for everyone.

Something it hasn't been for over 2 decades now, ever since Chuck Dixon left and was blacklisted by Dan DiDio. That EIC Marie Javins allowed Taylor to pull even this should make clear where DC's staff still stands, and why both Superman and Batman's titles will have to be strenuously avoided from now on.

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