Yeah but time and time again the Marvel public has been shown to be astonishingly moronic.
No excuse. The entire defense for making superhero comics increasingly grim and gritty is that they're being made more "realistic" than they once were, when the violence was more like that of the campy Adam West Batman TV show. You don't get to have it both ways. Either you're grim and gritty because you're more "realistic," in which case you should BE more realistic, or else you're NOT trying to be more realistic, in which case there's no justification for being more grim and gritty.
I meant that Dark Reing is the best we could get out of mainstream 616 Marvel in this time and age.
If that's the case, then I feel totally justified in saying that mainstream 616 Marvel is utterly devoid of any redeeming virtues whatsoever right now. This is flat-out bad storytelling, no matter how much you try to excuse it.
He's got PR men up the ass to keep his shit together and any issue could be brought up as simply the pressure of the job.
Right, because Obama doesn't have ANY PR people, and neither did Bush, nor have any of their defenders EVER pointed out the pressures of THEIR jobs as president. PLEASE. You're not even being consistent with your OWN explanations now.
I don't care how evil you are, if you are shown on NATIONAL TELEVISION to be the one to take the kill shot at the biggest threat to humanity in years [...]
Plenty of people will STILL hate you, if your previous transgressions are severe enough. Ask Rudy Giuliani how well being the "hero" of 9/11 worked for his presidential bid. Your view of how this would work is fundamentally irreconcilable with proven human nature.