Aint It Cool News hosts a roundtable about Civil War and the current state of Marvel Comics. And, as you’d expect, they’re very optimistic about everything:

“Well, the problem I immediately noticed about this whole CIVIL WAR nonsense is that, quite frankly, there’s only three African Americans in sight, and hell, one of them is dead already!!”

“The entire issue here has to do with the complete de-emphasis on character and elevation of plot to the level that there is no emotional impact other than the extreme disgust or extreme orgasm. Those going orgasmic over it are doing so because they literally do not give a shit about the individual characters.”

“No one aside from comic readers care that Reed Richards created a murderous clone of a Norse God… and even fewer people care that Black Goliath got killed. In five years time, the microscopic impact of CW will have completely vanished.”

“The difference between Stan & Jack and today’s writers is that today, heroism is something in need of deconstruction, dissassemblage. We have to ground our heroes these days. Stan & Jack gave the Marvel heroes weaknesses and humanity, but never forgot that they stood for a greater good. Today’s writers seem to only see the chinks in the armor and neglect to notice how heroic and interesting these characters can be.”

“I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I just can’t get past CIVIL WAR as an allegory for American politics. Stamford = 9/11, Iron Man = Bush, The Negative Zone = Secret CIA prisons, Sally Floyd = Keith Olbermann, Spider-Man = Valerie Plame, etc. etc… The story is just too close to the current political schism in the U.S. for me to enjoy any of it.”

Um. Ouch?

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