Mighty Mutanimals#1 Discussion & Preview

[The Big Bad]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

I think the only "issue" here is that there are some individuals out there incapable of consuming media unless it's through the lens of their personal politics.

Right... As evidence, I submit your reviews of the more obviously political TMNT Adventures issues. How is your noted dislike of those not the result of personal politics coloring your perception of the work? Or does it not count when you do it?

I am doing nothing different from anybody else's; people just find my comments more objectionable than other people's. Almost as if they were looking at them and misinterpreting them, looking for something to be offended abo...oh, wait.

So if a character in a comic uses the term "man" then it must be a slight toward some subsect of the LGBTQ demographic, right? They're reading a comic and actively looking to be offended.

Like people in the threads, due with my comments, you mean? I only commented on something in particular that happened to annoy me; among all the other things in the issue, Null Incorporated's baffling nicknaming is less important to me than the fact that the basic plot makes no sense unless you assume that Lillian is incompetent. I am not the one who highjacked a thread to express indignation about something I did not actually say.

Back when April's dad was healed by the ooze during the "Northampton" arc, people were sending angry letters (some published in the back of the comic) about how offensive it was that Mr. O'Neil would be happy not to be disabled anymore. That was "ablest" and a slight toward "handicap culture".

Ah, so somebody other than Bobby Curnow did read my letter. I'm glad. You seem to have misunderstood it on a rather fundamental level, though. My problem was with a) the issue showing April and her mom as good people deciding to experimental and potentially dangerous substance to a person without their consent or knowledge, something that most people would have considered obviously immoral if Kirby O'Neil had not been disabled, b) and that Kirby's disability only existed in the story so that it could be cured. My problem was never that Kirby was happy; it's that the book very clearly assumed that this was the only possible reaction.