Some very sad revelations about the mindset of Tony Bedard

There's a comics writer and video game developer named Tony Bedard who began in the former business over 3 decades ago, and in recent years, has revealed quite a leftist mindset, with the following discovery on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary from 16 years ago being quite a telling example. It appears Bedard wrote the following scene into the 2nd series with the title R.E.B.E.L.S that ran during 2009-11:

Again, Captain Comet acts as the naysayer, stating that plopping Rann in the sector is like pouring gas on a fire (he actually compares it to dropping Israel onto Palestine). Comet knows that some pushback is going to happen from everyone else in the area.

I like how Comet is at least not walking in lockstep with Dox.

Even long before October 7, 2023, this was still repugnant enough, and forcing it onto a character who's supposed to be a good guy is additionally offensive. That's very hostile to Israel, and all this in comics originally developed by Israeli descendants like Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. I've got a feeling Bedard is well aware of the Israeli/Jewish connections of comicdom during the Golden Age, another reason why this is so repellent, and makes a total waste of Starfire's role in the series. He doesn't even offer any concrete evidence there was ever an Arab/Islamic country named "palestine", and no point's made about how it was a name the Roman empire gave to Israel, all to humiliate it. Also note that this comic was published at the time Dan DiDio was in charge of DC, which says quite a bit about what his politics most likely were, along with plenty of other employees there at the time. Marvel also has their share of anti-Israel propaganda, and some smaller publishers undoubtably do too, and they've probably never shown any remorse for it, nor any regrets for how it slaps the memory of Jewish creators in the face.

I may have read a few of Bedard's early efforts, and those from independents may have been okay, but since then, as this mainstream comic makes clear, he's lost his moral compass, and injected bottom of the barrel political allusions into his scripts. He even sided with the position Hal Jordan's worthless because in Bedard's opinion, Hal's fearless rendition literally makes him unrelatable, all without considering Hal's a fictional character, and doesn't explain clearly how Kyle Rayner's being written with any kind of fear automatically translates to "talented" writing. Quite a sellout indeed.

More recently, while Bedard doesn't seem to write much on X, he posted the following, which is telling of where he's also gone since:

As his trans daughter struggles, a father pushes past his prejudice. 'It was like a wake-up.' https://t.co/plfjOC5i3b via @nbcnews

— Tony Bedard (@TonyBedard) April 12, 2024

So parents are supposed to literally accept that their children live in delusionary fantasies, and be ashamed of the sex they were born as? And I assume Bedard also believes all but Islamists are required to conform to the LGBT ideology, but not the other way around? It's embarrassingly bad. I hesitate to think what his work in video games could be like, and wonder if he's trying to be the Gerry Conway of the computer game industry? Bedard certainly is proving to be another example of why realists have to separate the art from the artist.

As of now, I have no idea if he's ever expressed any regrets over the stealth propaganda he put into R.E.B.E.L.S during 2010, and if he hasn't, I'd say he'd do well to retire from the profession, and I can't buy what independent comics he may have produced since if he doesn't apologize for stuffing propaganda hurtful to Israel and victims of Islamofascism into his writings.