Originally Posted by
Rivka
Yes, you are wrong here.
And by the way, your posts are thoughtful and you should post more often!
But anyway, I don't mean to be confrontational, but yes, you are wrong because you said it yourself! Scott being called Hitler isn't a thing of the past. Marvel "pushed a narrative but the stories told failed that...." is exactly what's going on here. In this real-world climate where lies can be told over and over and too many people just shrug and accept, I think a lot of X-Men and Scott Summers fans are tired of this narrative being shoved down our throats. Why can't they stop beating this dead horse? Yes, the good qualities of the comic are apparent; I think most of the reviews have caught the ambiguity of the situation. "Good comic, but...."
Marvel keeps taking us out of the story, they won't let it drop. It's petty. It's cheap. It's unprofessional. An attack on previous creative teams and editors. It's Marvel, not the readers, for whom "nothing is good enough"! They failed to convince their fans, and readers world-wide, that Scott was wrong in the actual stories told, in the actual comics, they failed to propagandize the more hardcore opinions of reactionary editors like Brevoort in interviews, so Marvel writers and editors now insert these self-flaggellating ad-hominems, or insert the dialogue into the mouths of other characters like Havok, constantly like this is going to make it true?
Scott Summers was the moral core of the X-Universe of the last 15 years and was always a hero. The editorially mandated mantra of "evil Scott" started a few years ago but rarely showed up in the actual comics. Fans didn't bite. So now the character himself is forced to tell us every other comic just how "wrong" and "evil" he was; like, *take that, you stupid fans.* To me it's blatantly unprofessional, reactionary BS.
I'm not criticizing anything about the current UNCANNY books, including the recent Annual, for anything but this. Not "everything" but a very specific thing. Marvel, EinC Cebulski, Mr. White, the writers, whoever is pushing this, please stop it. You made your point--it's been revealed repeatedly to be bullsh*t. Move on. If Marvel had any confidence in Mr. Rosenberg's portrayal of Scott Summers in the current books, they wouldn't have to constantly lie about 15 years of publishing history.
And I apologize for jumping into this thread; never posted here before, but I am a Scott Summers fan.