I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
- George Washington
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
- George Washington
Oh god, and this guy is writing the next Superman movie ...
I'm okay with it.
Comics have never really been subtle with its political opinions.
I just find it odd Coates picked Peterson of all People. On the folks from that weird right wing internet circle, he is pretty far down on my list, but I guess you can make the comparisons there.
I mean the only other Person I can think of is Alex Jones, and he gets done to death at this point.
As per the specific issue, it's not so much Red Skull as Jordan Peterson (who's views have been revealed to be as far-right as they come) but as one of the alt-right talking heads on social media. One only need to go to youtube to see a lot of these charlatans from Alex Jones (when he was still on social media) and his cronies to the Prager U garbage.
I don't know if anyone here has read the isssue but it wasn't Red Skull as Jordan Peterson.
As for Jordan Peterson, I actually like some of his stuff particularly his advice to young men to get responsible and all that. But his transphobia (which isn't recent considering he completely misrepresented the Canadian laws) and his views on climate change and social issues has moved him much closer to the far-right than anything else. I won't say he's alt-right but he's definitely far-right which I personally have little patience for because it's now about whining, complaining about social change and have absolutely NO solutions to societal problems.
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Using the Red Skull to mirror current far right stuff is nothing new so I can't say I'm outraged.
The closest was that WB recently announced that Godzilla vs. Kong had surpassed Wonder Woman 1984 as their biggest ever HBO Max debut, which, by implication, would mean that the Snyder Cut didn't surpass it.
Even if WW1984 hadn't outperformed it, I doubt that the Snyder Cut would have much impact on the new Superman movie anyway. It's a reboot and likely will be outside the main canon like The Batman.