Re:Katz: Must all be seen thru geek-colored glasse
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Katz is not the first to make the Columbine-Xmen connection. Joe Casey wrote Xmen Children of the Atom several months ago (and while it sucked ass) one of it's major points was to start the fear of the mutants as an offshoot of fear of armed humans. The references were obviously to the school shootings. Xmen has been political before. Read the letters pages from the early eighties. There were times when they were parrelling fear of mutants with fear of gays and AIDS. (comic geeks - what do you think the legacy virus is?) Senator Kelly and his scheme are straight out of the comics.. and it makes me very happy to see the bad guys be much more ruthless then they are in the comics by actually doing somethign about it for a change.:)
Anyway, I went in expected to hate it and name issue numbers. and I didn't and Marvel is probably going to see more of my money because of this than they have in years. I've got my few pet peeves, but for every continuity thing that was broken, a few more were fixed. (like we have an explanation for rogue's hair anywhere in the comics)
One of the big points is that there are no bad guys.. we're all just human beings.
has it occured to you that maybe we'd rather not be found by you guys? nyah.:)
is the moral that it sucks to be human?
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um.. if i had never read ender's game, i would have liked ender's shadow. bean is not placed in ender's shadow. he's shown as the super mind runnnign the show - from the situations at battle school to the plans of Locke. placing bean as the person who is smarter than the wiggins and tells them what to do, undermines the awe that i used to feel at the idea of kids that smart. bean is genetically enhanced. he's not human. and he can't bear to kill. and that coming from card, who shoves christian morals down my throat thru the earth- series, and the other ender's sequels, is is a scary moral. it's fun to get angry at the bits while you read it though.:)
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Katz is not the first to make the Columbine-Xmen connection. Joe Casey wrote Xmen Children of the Atom several months ago (and while it sucked ass) one of it's major points was to start the fear of the mutants as an offshoot of fear of armed humans. The references were obviously to the school shootings. :)
Xmen has been political before. Read the letters pages from the early eighties. There were times when they were parrelling fear of mutants with fear of gays and AIDS. (comic geeks - what do you think the legacy virus is?)
Senator Kelly and his scheme are straight out of the comics.. and it makes me very happy to see the bad guys be much more ruthless then they are in the comics by actually doing somethign about it for a change.
Anyway, I went in expected to hate it and name issue numbers. and I didn't and Marvel is probably going to see more of my money because of this than they have in years. I've got my few pet peeves, but for every continuity thing that was broken, a few more were fixed. (like we have an explanation for rogue's hair anywhere in the comics)
One of the big points is that there are no bad guys.. we're all just human beings.
has it occured to you that maybe we'd rather not be found by you guys? :)
nyah.
um.. if i had never read ender's game, i would have liked ender's shadow. :)
bean is not placed in ender's shadow. he's shown as the super mind runnnign the show - from the situations at battle school to the plans of Locke. placing bean as the person who is smarter than the wiggins and tells them what to do, undermines the awe that i used to feel at the idea of kids that smart.
bean is genetically enhanced. he's not human.
and he can't bear to kill. and that coming from card, who shoves christian morals down my throat thru the earth- series, and the other ender's sequels, is is a scary moral.
it's fun to get angry at the bits while you read it though.