Originally Posted by
Powertool
I refuse to hold Greg Rucka of all people as the judge of what is or is not acceptable in the current socio-cultural context.
Any kind of argument about social themes coming from the mouth of an author who in 2020 wrote a whole sequence featuring two Americans raiding, guns-ablazing, a foreign military installation without even a scrap of motivation presented to the reader aside from the fact that it lies in a region with a name which sounds cacophonic to English-speakers like it's freaking 2003 and everyone in the US is still drunk on images of Bush II standing in front of "Mission accomplished!" banners[*] sounds completely hollow to my ears.
[*] And the whole thing was clearly added to the comic book not as a parody but to show how badass the two characters were, make no mistake! Because apparently if it's two Lesbians, of which one is a minority, who act according to the tenets of jingoism, macho culture and neoconservatism -- then it's completely OK for Mr. Rucka! :eyeroll: