One of many voices that speak out against problems of the portrayal of gender, sexuality and race in comics. I just happen to be a male, white middle class member of the primary comic book target demographic.
That’s all I have to say that ain’t more spoilery than Steph’s costume design notebook.
Just… I can’t believe the sequence of events leading into the “Big Twist Surprise Spoiler”. Unless, y’know, Marvel tripped and poured a bucket of Skrull on the Final Crisis Timeline.
Can Superboy Prime take up Timestream Boxing again? This ending is delightfully hysterically wrong, and needs its own reboot.
ETA: A link to the spoiler filled pages in question. Oh my canon! Grant Morrison, you silly goose. I can’t believe you did that so…badly. Like
Movie promises to be “brutual enough for an R-rating” [source, io9 quoting Comic Book Movies quoting Marvel Source Avi Arad.
Whereupon lies the problem - an R rating has been seen as the signature death knell for a blockbuster movie. For example, the hideous editing done to DieHard4.0 in order to secure the coveted MA15 category. Or the Terminator 4 proposed PG to MA15 rating... or the ratings of Spiderman, Iron Man, Hulk, Punisher and Batman.
Don't get me wrong, I don't believe that comic book films are automagically destined for the MA to PG level of rating. I just don't feel comfortable that the first shot Luke Cage has at the silver screen will be in a smaller niche than was presented to the rest of the Marvel franchise. Like it or not, Cage's take will be judged against the PG-13 movies to determine "if audiences are ready for a black lead character in a comic book film".
In fact, only the third Punisher film looks close enough to the money to be R-rated. Wolverine was toned down to a PG13 from a possible R rating, and if there's one Canadian killing machine that would be well suited to non stop violence brutuality fest that's worthy of an R rating... it's Wolverine.
PG13 Wolverine versus R Rated Cage. Sales figures determine who lives for a sequel
It’s a world of laughter
A world of tears
It’s a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There’s so much that we share
That it’s time we’re aware
It’s a skrull world after all
There is just one moon (maybe)
And one golden sun (possibly)
And a smile means
Friendship to every one
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It’s a skrull world after all
It’s a skrull world after
It’s a skrull world after all
It’s a skrull world after all
It’s a skrull, skrull world
