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Should Gi joe return to Marvel ?
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09-24-2019, 03:40 PM
SmokeBellew
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I’ll agree with you 1,000% on that. But I’m not sure how many “nerds” out there are genuine or if the new pop culture popularity has just attracted the obnoxious trend jumpers that have always plagued our scocitey. Hippies, Yuppies, Hipsters, they have always been here, now they are just in our house.
When I was a kid in the 80s I felt that the clientele in a comic shop were largely regular guys who were just into comics, which a rare exception of the sort of cartoon character looser. Now, when I walk into a comic shop, not only do I not find anything worth buying but I feel like the only employable person in the room (and that includes the employees).
I think the comic companies just all need to stop what they are doing, clean house, and just go back to making fun and exciting stories. That’s what all of these movies and video games are based on. I think comics take a back seat to video games and movies because parents can’t use comics as subjugated to keep their kids drooling for hours on end. I doubt most of your movie going audience or the gaming community could get through Dostoyevsky either.
I think you're right. For example, if they want to get the kids interested in comics again, it's probably best to just concentrate on action stories and not even dick about with "adult" themes like sexuality and politics. Disney is a good model here, believe it or not.
They do have an increasingly important initiative of representing reality in their films, ie. actually reflecting real-life (colorful faces, strong women, LGBTQ...etc and all), but when they're making a kid's movie, they leave sexuality, sex, politics, gratuitous violence and the like out of it. Kids don't need to be bothered by that stuff yet. You may see a lesbian couple dropping their child off at daycare, but that's a rare occurrence, in the background and not anywhere near a central theme of the flick. And they certainly don't get into sexual aspects of the couple. In such cases, it's an acknowledgement of modern reality and an effort to normalize seeing such reality in major Hollywood films, but they aren't about to get preachy or highlight it or use it to push an agenda on young kids...other than more kid-oriented messages, such as respect & kindness towards animals and fellow humans. Even the little adult commentary nods and winks you find in Pixar movies especially aren't anything that detract from the story for the kids. Most of it goes unnoticed by the kiddos and it's just there to keep the parents interested. That's why I find the LGBTQ community's desire for Elsa to be a lesbian a bit short-sighted and unrealistic. The target audience for Frozen aren't yet dealing with puberty, let alone confusing questions of sexual identity. There is a time and place for such representation, and a movie for young children ain't it.
Anyway, I suspect comics would be read by children if they were actually made for children.
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