sad for Moon Knight in Knoxville TN

comic books are good to get into if you really like to complain about everything all of the time

Is there a term for the phenomena of “this was wildly OOC when it was first written but every subsequent writer picked up on that characterization and it’s been 20 years so it’s actually just The Character now”. I’m proposing “character drift” if that’s not already taken.

i do prefer marvel's sliding timescale so much more than whatever dc has going on btw. marvel will just be like "yeah 1963 was 12 years ago and it's 2023 now" and let things exist in the context they were written. dc is obsessed with rewriting the timeline and "modernising" characters over and over again to make everything "make sense" like they're not talking about comics, which are notoriously not supposed to make sense

the joker does not have psychosis. he does not have psychosis, he does not meet any of diagnosis criteria for psychosis (especially that psychosis is not even a complete diagnosis on its own) and the fact that dc keeps calling random villains psychotic is a fucking disgrace. there's nothing behind it but conflation of psychosis (or mental illness in general) with evil and crime which is both inherently ableist and works wonders (derogatory) for their anti-abolitionist rehabilitationist copaganda. there is genuinely no excuse for how the arkham asylum and the 'criminally insane' focus has grown in the batman franchise throughout the years and how it is handled (somehow progressively worse may i add). and you're not immune to propaganda.

comic book drama is so wild bc if somebody tells you they hate a writer it could be because they just don't like their writing and how they handled certain characters, or bc the writer said something distasteful during an interview/on twitter, or bc the writer may have been involved with war crimes committed during the American invasion and occupation of Iraq,

do you guys ever like forget you're interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go "oh wait i'm like crazy crazy about this yeah"

marvel comic writers always seem to forget comic lore when all they really have to do is hire an autistic person to just listen in on pitches for comics so they can go "oh that could work with this abandoned plot thread we can follow up on instead of leaving in the dust" and they should get paid a million dollar every daythank you