Wednesday, June 30, 2021

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DC’s Latest Superficial Anthology Deals with Microaggressions & Racism

Posted: 30 Jun 2021 06:20 AM PDT

Next Shark has a fluff-coated item focused on a DC special commemorating Asian superheroes that looks predictably saddled with political correctness in at least a few ways:

 

Featured in "DC Festival of Heroes" are 11 stories touching on topics that many Asian Americans, longtime fans or comic book rookies can relate to. Whether it's a coming-of-age story for young heroes, diving into identity issues, feeling a need to assimilate, or dealing with microaggressions and racism, all touch on the importance of representation.

 

“Microaggressions”? That’s more like a slang for merely saying something that’s anathema to absurd belief systems, and just shouldn’t be said because it crosses the line of the left. It’s the kind of idiocy you could discover at universities. A clue something’s not right here.

 

In the collection's namesake story, "Festival of Heroes," writer Amy Chu and artist Marcio Takara were "influenced" by the news of the rise of anti-Asian violence, especially on our elders, to come out of the pandemic, according to the DC Comics blog.

 

By any chance, do they research and pay any attention to who exactly the perpetrators of the crimes are? How about the Antifa/BLM hoodlums in Portland, Oregon who assaulted and endangered Andy Ngo, just because he exposed their evil activities? How about Black criminals who attacked Asians in cities like Baltimore, Maryland? I’m aware Chu’s an apparent leftist, and must assume she for one is taking a superficial approach to the issue, putting her head in the sand in regards to exact details, which only ensures the dangers can continue. Plus, I notice the following panel turns up in this special:

 

 

Well, what’s this we have here? Some sort of attempt to make an allegedly “American” bunch of thugs look like they’re discriminating against Islamists by calling a passerby a “terrorist”? That the writers of this special would opportunistically shoehorn that in there attests to their identity politics. What they inserted minimizes the issue of terrorism, and that can include the very acts of violence Asians experienced over the past months. The site interviewed the contributors, who said:

 

NextShark: With the recent attacks on the elderly, what is the message you want to convey about our elders fighting back in the "Festival of Heroes"?

Jessica Chen: Like most people in our community, I follow NextShark and other AAPI news sources a lot, and the uptick in the violence against our Asian elders is alarming, disheartening, and making most of us feel helpless in what we can do to help.

One of the cool things about working in superhero comics is the ability to take real-life issues that we may not be able to fix or deal with immediately, and having our superheroes be able to so that readers may have somewhere to find solace and catharsis in, even through a fictional space.

For those who may not be following NextShark and other AAPI news sources like the AAPI community and I have, writer Amy Chu and I were hoping to be able to shed some light that these attacks are real, have been happening, and we all must do more together to help combat xenophobia.

 

But that xenophobia can never include what Islamofascism indoctrinates, can it? And there can’t be clear identification of the perpetrators beyond any who’re white, despite what research statistics are showing? Also note that Chu is a contributor to the medium of questionable leftist character, one more reason this project is bound to be superficial, and otherwise a disappointment. One more reason why such projects from mainstream publishers are unlikely to improve the decaying situation in the USA as it stands now.’

 

 

Originally published here.

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NFL Proclaims “Football is Gay,” and I Couldn’t Agree More…

Posted: 30 Jun 2021 04:45 AM PDT

In support of Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib’s declaration that “football is gay,” the NFL rolled out a silly new ad just in time for LGBTQ+ “Pride Month”.

 

 

 

"The NFL stands behind the LGBTQ+ community today and every day," the NFL tweeted after releasing the commercial.

 

When the NFL began allowing players to politicize the game by allowing them to kneel during the national anthem, the fans and supporters expressed their dissatisfaction by staying at home or changing the channel, causing the league to lose money in advertising. They’re now enabling one gay player to direct their advertising, and they will lose many more of their remaining paying customers.

 

 

 

 

Mainstream football fans are unconcerned about the athletes’ personal lives, sexual preferences, and political views. Most normal people just watch sports for the entertainment aspect, and yet the NFL continues to double-down and push a politically loaded agenda that the fans are uninterested in.  Will the NFL learn before they bankrupt themselves?

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Ready for Drag Queen Versions of Classic Sitcoms Like ‘Brady Bunch’?

Posted: 29 Jun 2021 04:15 PM PDT

 

 

 

Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch will debut on Paramount+ beginning Wednesday in what is expected to be the first in a planned series that will re-visit classic sitcoms with casts of vamping drag queens, according to a Variety report.

 

 

The Paramount+ show is a mash-up of two ViacomCBS owned shows ,The Brady Bunch and VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race, with drag performers joining original cast members in a re-telling of the season two episode “Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?”  Marcia Brady will be played by drag queen Shea Couleé, and Carol Brady will be played by Drag Race season six winner Bianca Del Rio. Greg Brady and Jan Brady will be played by Ben DeLaCreme and Kylie Sonique Love, respectively with RuPaul expected to make an appearance as well.

.According to Variety, the ensemble is on the lookout for more classic sitcoms to remake as drag shows. The Golden Girls, Happy Days, Bewitched, Who’s the Boss, Laverne & Shirley, Married…with Children, Diff’rent Strokes, The Nanny, and Designing Women are among the other TV shows cited in a cast interview. I’m not sure who this is for, but since most drag shows are insufferable, this is definitely NOT for me.

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Disney’s Renaming of Boba Fett’s ‘Slave I’ Just Another Woke Joke

Posted: 29 Jun 2021 01:15 PM PDT

 

Forty one  years after it’s debut, Disney has asked for the iconic spacecraft of bounty hunter Boba Fett known as SLAVE I™ to be renamed to the very creative moniker Boba Fett’s Starship™ in all future products and stories. LEGO Star Wars Design Director Jens Kronvold Frederiksen said at Fan Media Days last month, “"It's probably not something which has been announced publicly, but it is just something that Disney doesn't want to use any more.”

About as original as anything else Disney Star Wars has ever conceived

 

The original LEGO version of the ship was also called Slave I, and it is still listed as such on their website. The release of the new set coincides with the premiere of The Book of Boba Fett, a new spinoff series based on the hugely popular Disney+ program The Mandalorian. "Everybody is," Frederiksen responded when asked about deleting the Slave I designation from the ship by a Brickset.com contributor. It’s probably not anything that’s been made public, but it’s just something that Disney no longer wants to use." What is the significance of the ship’s renaming? We can only speculate what Disney’s answer will be in the absence of an official statement.

 

The new 478-piece LEGO Star Wars "Boba Fett's Starship" will reportedly be available on August 1st, with mini figures of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian.

 

 

Was there a Disney employee who was offended by the term “slave”? Is it possible that they are unaware that slaves exist in the Star Wars universe because it might be worth the time to let them know Anakin Skywalker and Princess Leia were both slaves at one point in their lives. In fact, last May, toymaker Hasbro also changed the name of their “Slave Leia” figure to “Huttslayer” after an online campaign was launched.

 

 

 

This seems like just another attempt to demonstrate just how Woke™ the corporation is. In fact, Disney has made some questionable decisions in recent years. Because of perceived racial stereotypes, older Disney movies such as Dumbo, Peter Pan, Swiss Family Robinson, and The Aristocats on Disney+ streaming service cannot be viewed while using the "Kids Profile" mode, which filters out titles flagged with content warnings — including scenes now deemed racist. And at Disney World and Disneyland, some rides have been renamed. As we’ve also reported on, actress Gina Carano was also unceremoniously dismissed from The Mandalorian, apparently due to a tweet comparing modern cancel culture to Nazi Germany and her support of Donald Trump.

 

 

Mark Anthony Austin, the actor who portrayed the Boba Fett character in the special edition of Star Wars: A New Hope, , criticized the company for renaming the ship for new LEGO toys.

 

 

 

With the name change of Boba Fett’s Slave I, Disney only continues its pattern of whitewashing anything that could offend people who can’t bear the truths of the past. And while I honestly have no idea where the name “Slave I” originated, I really don’t care. Should the term “slave” be so forbidden that it results in renaming crafts, locations, or terms? Is it really possible that someone working at Disney or Lucasfilm honestly believes the word “slave” promotes or praises slavery in this context?

 

What a clownshow.

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New Comics Review: Vampirella #21 Reveals Origins of Her Home Planet

Posted: 29 Jun 2021 08:15 AM PDT

vampirella #21

 

Can Vampirella turn her back on her own people? Having discovered the startling truth of her homeworld Drakulon, Vampirella is torn between her mother’s evil dreams of conquest and the vendetta against the Vampiri race by a macabre, enigmatic new threat. The fate of Lilith and the destiny of Drakulon are about to be revealed! 

 

Impression

Vampirella #21 is the culmination of Vampirella’s conflict with her mother and return to her homeworld. Since the beginning of Priests run we’ve had Vampirella going back and forth recalling her homeworld. Priest takes the opportunity between the previous issue and this one to give the reader a small time skip. In that period our main crew has become hardened abomination fighting vampiri and Lilith hasn’t tried killing Vampirella. When not trying to kill her own daughter, Lilith isn’t so bad.  Vampirella has been enduring her mother’s stressful and often petty jabs for so long that this new threat is a breath of fresh air.

 

 

As a reader, it only makes sense that you’re looking for a meaningful conclusion to this toxic familial relationship. In Vampirella #21 Priest brings just that. Oftentimes in life, we don’t get the endings we want with our loved ones or to say the things we wish we could’ve. That is what makes this ending(?) between vampirella and her mother so hard-hitting. In it’s own bloody way, it’s relatable. Yes, there is a lot going on. we’ve learned the origins of Drakulon, parallel earth, and had a planet of the apes’ style “what the F”. But the thing that hits the hardest isn’t any of that? Its Vampirella screaming out for her mother as the issue closes.

 

Final Verdict

For anyone keeping us with this Vampirella run by Priest this issue is a MUST READ! Between the expansion of Vampirella’s homeworld and the twists and turns you’re sent on this is a fun and entertaining read. You’d be missing out if you skipped this one.

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Creator Larry Hama Says ‘Snake Eyes’ Should’ve Been Asian

Posted: 29 Jun 2021 06:15 AM PDT

 

Empire magazine’s written all about the new movie spotlighting Snake Eyes from GI Joe, and along the way, Hama comes up in dialogue, and what they say about him is pretty strange. But first, if the following is correct, the titular hero’s racial background has been changed:

 

Now along comes Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, which promises to look beneath the mask and explore what made him the man we know in the fighting force. With Crazy Rich Asians and Last Christmas actor Henry Golding inheriting the mantle, the new film has its latest trailer online (see it below). Empire went on a one-man mission to track down Snake Eyes producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and have him talk through some key elements.

 

Yes, Golding’s of Asian descent (Malaysia), making this another example of race-swapping for the sake of “inclusivity” that supposedly was never there to begin with. Now, here’s the part referencing Hama himself:

 

“It's the first time we've explored it. Larry Hama, the creator of Snake Eyes, is in on many of the decisions,” says di Bonaventura. “Snake in the comic is blond haired and blue eyed. We asked him why he made him that way. He said he didn't really know. So we asked if he cared if he's dark haired and Asian here? ‘Probably should have done that in the beginning!’ We try to give a little bit of an explanation. His character's journey is that he's had a life of bad luck. That's the simplistic way of saying that's how he got to Snake Eyes and then you watch it, and he struggles with that and he makes bad decisions in the movie, which I think is ballsy and hopefully the audiences are going to like it. Some people might wish it were cheerier, but others are going to get into the fact that we went gritty.”

 

I’m not surprised at all. That’s the whole problem with modern entertainment, and obviously not limited to Batman. Turning everything gritty along with dark. You don’t have to darken the vision in order to depict a character making mistakes.

 

But how strange indeed to learn Hama couldn’t explain why he developed Snake Eyes as a white caucasian when GI Joe was launched as a comic and revised toy line in 1982. If I were in charge, I’d just say it’s not a crime to be a white, and no big deal if you’ve got a white man or woman practicing martial arts. Let’s consider that Batman was one of the earliest white superheroes depicted as a martial arts practitioner, ditto Daredevil, and undoubtably, any and all SJWs who decide being a martial artist is “cultural appropriation” would damn Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Stan Lee and Bill Everett as illegally appropriating the skills years before. And look how Hama seems to have decided that making Snake Eyes white/caucasian was a mistake in the first place. Regrettable if he didn’t have the courage to defend his past work, likely due to his knee-jerk liberal politics. If Asian cast members are needed, all he had to do was create some more for the heroes’ team. There’s one more thing here I’d like to comment upon:

 

“If you're a fan of the Joe series/movies, you'll like the characters. If you're not a fan, it lets you into it. This is a movie about the Arashikage and Snake Eyes within it, and why the Arashikage is, in turn, in the world of Cobra and Joe. I've studied a lot of Steven Spielberg's movies and I think one of the things he does that I love is what's called an "ice cream cone movie." It starts very narrow and as it gets bigger, it gets wider, the way a cone does. We're starting with Snake and then in comes Storm and the Arashikage, and then the Joes come in. It's expanding the world.”

 

There was once a time when Spielberg was a big deal. But he became too politically/ideologically driven post-September 11, and that decidedly is why whatever impressive talents he brought to the table years before have worn off since. As for liking this movie? That’s only if they take a merited approach to the screenplay and performances, and I’m not sure the filmmakers are doing enough to convince they got it packed in there, due to the hints at political correctness in this interview. The 2 GI Joe movies of the past decade never got anywhere, and this won’t either if PC takes precedence over quality preparations.

 

Originally published here.

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