MagnetGirl

February 17, 2012 1:30 pm The conversations yesterday and today have made one thing abundantly clear to me: I don't want to see domestic abuse in my comics. Ever. It clearly cannot be addressed in an appropriate way. Because of the way it has been done via the examples given in commentary (Hank Pym, Reed Richards, Vision, Clone Peter Parker*) we have reasonable people arguing that these acts of violence should not be that important to the characters or plots or comic book fandom. And that is a horrible thing surrounded by horrible things. If a company or creator wanted to address this very important issue in a thoughtful and respectful way, I would support it. But it would require something that the comic book medium simply does not lend itself to: continuity of consequence. It could not be retconned ever. It could not be forgotten ever. It could not be minimized EVER. Doing any of that would be a metaphorical slap in the face to all the real world real life actual victims of actual slaps and far worse and that is, plainly and simply, wrong. As it is, the idea of domestic abuse has been used in these stories to create drama for and add depth of character to the male protagonist. The abuser. And has then been excused away with "mind control", "one time loss of control", "clone", etc. And that is basically disgusting. And I never ever want to see it in a comic book again. *I admit freely that commenters bring up Peter hitting Mary Jane while she was pregnant and he was probably a clone (during the Clone Saga which I also freely admit to never reading nor ever wanting to read) engenders the knee-jerk reaction "Leave Peter alone, he would never!" in me (the biggest Spider-fan and strongest Spider-defender you don't know) so I can understand and relate to people who legitimately like the character of Hank Pym. It's my opinion he's too problematic to be used well, but I get you.

July 14, 2011 2:57 pm I WANT THOSE WEB-SHOOTERS.

April 19, 2011 2:56 pm Oh, and her name is Miranda? #chaospowers

March 20, 2011 3:29 pm Poor Aunt May and Jarvis! But Jess Jones' green lines make me happy.

February 18, 2011 3:40 pm I would really like it to go your way.

February 8, 2011 2:46 pm Malim and Dianna have been my two Black Canarys, it's kinda funny to me to think of either as Lois.

February 1, 2011 10:10 am TUXEDO MASK

I would also marry Bruce and Peter. But I choose Alex over Scott. And for the fifth slot I'll go with Stephen Strange and his hot turtlenck collection.

January 6, 2011 1:00 pm So adorable! I personally love the hair but then I always prefer it longer (See: Harry Potter's hair in Goblet of Fire. Love!)

November 17, 2010 11:48 am Gah. I feel personally responsible for your break-up.

November 8, 2010 4:58 pm

I think j206 has a point about sports being seen as social and comics being seen as antisocial. And American culture, at least as represented in public school, for example, very much prefers (even panders to) extroverts over introverts.

 But generally -- isn't this all perception anyway? Our best option will always be to have pride in whoever we are however we can.