Yeah.. I just hope Marvel doesn't come down on us now...again.
Yeah, you and me both cyberghostface. That was actually at the back of my mind when I was posting in the most recent thread about this issue, (that it might get so blown out of proportion that things would get out of hand,) but I didn't say it because it almost felt like I'd be tempting fate to do so.. (Crazy as that sounds)
But I'm biting my tongue just now, (though probably not enough,) because if something like that did happen, this time I would actually be more understanding of marvel's reasons for doing so.(Though I certainly don't want that to happen.) Since the sheer amount of vitriol and hate that has often seemingly been directed towards the title every time an issue comes out has sometimes made me feel a little disgusted to even be a comic book fan.
I'm hoping this blows over, and people can actually get back to posting scans that are about the fun of collecting comic books rather than using this place as a platform to desperately try and find fault, and something to be outraged over out of a simple comic book. There's plenty more out there in the real world to be righteously upset over than fictitious plot turns in a superhero comic..
And those who will now try and go looking for lies and conspiracies here, there's this little thing called 'benfit of the doubt.' You know 'innocent before proven guilty', and all that sort of thing. Maybe folks should try and have a little bit of faith in people, that the writers aren't subverting moral values in these things. Because that way of thinking isn't exactly a million miles away from Fredric Wertham's take on what was wrong with comic books. And we all know the mess of things that caused.
Now, I'm sorry if this comes off as condescending and or offensive to some folks here, (And certainly I'm not aiming this at you cyberghostface,) but I'm just saying that maybe we should all try and take a step back, and not to try and look for the worst in everything a set of writers do, just because we might not like the direction of the stories. I know if I don't like things, and I'm no longer getting enough enjoyment out of them to spend my hard earned cash on them, I tend to vote with my wallet and stop buying them. Isn't that enough? These characters are Marvels, and if we don't like what they're offering us we shouldn't really be buying them. It's that simple.
I just don't see why people devote so much energy and passion into being upset over something like this. When they could be using that time more productively. There's enough real misery in the world without trying to revel in it here. Can't we find more fun scans to have any discourse over? Isn't that what we want out of this place?
(Sigh!..What I wouldn't give for some Superdictionary posts just now. Surely we haven't exahausted all of them?)