If we judge every story in the MU by any other, we shall get nowhere. Not only have we had hundreds of authors with definite viewpoints of their own, but we have had immense amounts of mutual contradiction. To go right back to the beginning, we have the Ayn Randian Steve Ditko, the liberal Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby, who was practically a socialist; and we have Ditko and Lee, both atheists, along with Kirby, who is not only Jewish but gets more Jewish as time goes on. In the eighties, the Thatcherite David Michelinie used Iron Man comics to weave odes to the free market, while Bill Mantlo indulged in the most shameless left-wing propaganda I have ever seen. And so on. I am only concerned with the internal integrity of the Phoenix story; and I say that to allow her to get away with mass murder would have ruined it. Tragedy, after that scene, was an absolute necessity.
As for the use of cock and cunt as distinguishing features, I had every intention to be brutal. Anyone who finds them so desperately important as to distort historical facts (such as the repeatedly confirmed reason for Shooter's order to Claremont) is not on the same page as I am.
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Re: The Needle on the Nerd-Meter is Spiking...
Date: 2009-12-24 05:11 pm (UTC)As for the use of cock and cunt as distinguishing features, I had every intention to be brutal. Anyone who finds them so desperately important as to distort historical facts (such as the repeatedly confirmed reason for Shooter's order to Claremont) is not on the same page as I am.