What's up with that?
With the comic book industry going all PC nice nice hug a villain like bat shit crazy changing genders and race or whatever of beloved characters and ruining them with new origins I would like to see them take an extra step forward. Like changing Wonder Woman into a middle aged bald Jewish guy...
Turn Magneto into a Palestinian LGBT suffering under the brutal conditions implemented by Netanyahu- rather than being a holocaust survivor. Make an Eskimo a superhero..... I dunno.
Comic books have always gone for some kind of gimmick, but now days they are just getting lazy. They've done so prior by taking one character and then making a female duplicate of that character with similar origin, but now they are getting even lazier and messing up original characters trying to squeeze another buck out of them.
Did creativity come and go with comic books in the 90's when a ton of new brands and characters popped up? What happened to those days (other than the fact they mass produced and almost everything printed was a special edition foil embossed copy)? To me those were the good days of comic books. I was in love with the host of new characters and storylines created with Marvel UK.
I haven't bought a comic book in more than a few years; last one being 'Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness', but with the pc shake up of traditional characters it gets kinda hard to want to revisit those superheroes I grew up with because they are no longer there. Ok, I get that Thor is a woman now and that Thor's hammer has been wielded by about a dozen other characters in the past (including Superman and Wonder Woman). I can understand a temporary shift like that being that it can actually be explained without completely cloning a character.
Sure I got to go through the epic saga that DC put out with Superman's Death and the cross comic extravaganza that resulted in the creation of several new versions of Superman. Who can forget Shack as 'Steel' (I'm actually thinking of digging through the 3 or 4 boxes of comic books I had to revisit those memories now. Interesting times and creativity props to be given back then.
Or maybe the problem is me and the generations of nerds prior. It's not racism or sexism as some may be trying to call it. Those are more defensive terms to rationalize the exploitation of known characters and the laziness not to create new ones. Where are the Spawns, the Youngbloods, Turok, etc. It's saddening.
Then again I'm getting gray and white hairs in my beard and probably coming off as an old man complaining about kids these days and their new fangled doohickeys. These whipper snappers now days don't know when they got it good or how good it was in the past. Maybe I'm a dinosaur and failing to adapt or evolve to the modern days of comics trying to find links to the past like when I watch Bay's revisionism of "The Transformers" while clinging onto and trying to find nods to the celebrity super cast of the 86 cartoon movie with Nimoy and Orson Wells (yes, a real "fan boy" will definitely find them). Maybe I need to step aside with my notions and guidelines of what has been tried and true in the origins and stories of the past.
Whatever it may be I am sure we can all agree that there needs to be some new blood. Some new creations. Ok, fine. Go with the Marvel "What If" scenarios and maybe run with them for a bit if it pleases the kiddies, but please. Some things are sacred. Comic books are along the lines of modern. Day holy scriptures, though Thor goes back a good deal of time. If you really want to blasphamize our current deities then I insist you do a dwarf version of a Japanese Jesus transitioning from female into male as an albino geriatric samurai fighting evil spirits while on jenkem in the Native American spirit world....
Because Peyote would be too cliche'.