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SJW Marvel

Posted September 28, 2017 By John C Wright

There may be those of you who think I am kidding about the state of Marvel comics, and the concerted, coordinated effort the Left is making there, as with the Hugos, to blot out everything we love in the Pop culture, and replace it with politically correct doublethink and dullness, virtue signaling and depravity.

Below is a page from the last book of GENERATIONS, where the gimmick is to time travel the diversity-hire cosplay versions of the characters back into the past to meet the original, real heroes in their prime.

Here they are, gathered together.

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D&C on Marvel LEGACY

Posted September 28, 2017 By John C Wright

At least one reviewer has looked over Marvel LEGACY #1 and, as I suspected, panned it as being the same boring SJW trash as ever.

On this variant cover, all the beloved characters appear, including Thor, Cap, Spidey, Iron Man, Hulk, each in the real version.

There is even a curvaceous and feminine version of Mary Jane Watson.

The cover promises excitement, intrigue, action, fun, and not stupidly self-indulgent yet annoying  and slow-witted SJW characters drawn in stiff poses with muddy sepia-toned colors wandering aimlessly through plots that make no sense and have nothing at stake.

This cover promises all that is about to change!

ANNDDD….  The promises is false.

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This Man Speaks for Me

Posted September 27, 2017 By John C Wright

Perhaps my readers are curious about my take on the alleged NFL controversy.

I have no idea who this gentleman is, but his words and attitude capture mine exactly, and, if I am not mistaken about the character of this nation, captures the heart and soul of the mainstream and silent majority.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 17, Water of Life

Posted September 27, 2017 By John C Wright

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 17, Water of Life, is now posted on Patreon.

Episode 17 Water of Life

In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost must deal with a dangerous medical emergency, and he shares a drink and a prayer and a vow of brotherhood with a dying enemy.

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Quote of the Day

Posted September 27, 2017 By John C Wright

Jordan Peterson has a trenchant observation:

“Well, I think it’s a particular kind of ideological game and I think the outcome is twofold, it’s to make the player feel morally superior and also to take rather serious ax swings at the foundation of society and so the game is, identify a domain of human endeavor, note that there’s a distribution of success, some people are doing comparatively better and some people are doing comparatively worse.

“Define those doing worse as victims. Define those doing better as perpetrators.

“Identify with the victims, have yourself a set of enemies handy to vent your resentment on, feel good about it even though it didn’t require any work on your part and then endlessly repeat…and that’s why I’ve seen that happening on campuses in particular for the last thirty years.”

from the video Genders, Rights and Freedom of Speech at 7 minutes and 17 seconds.

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Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Women?

Posted September 26, 2017 By John C Wright

A reader writes:

You realize that at this rate it’s just a matter of time before the comics make Margo Lane the Shadow and she is revealed to actually be a ‘lesbian woman of color’.

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Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Posted September 26, 2017 By John C Wright

In case your day needs an oasis of cheery Americana, free of ulterior agenda:

  • Earl Scruggs, banjo
  • Glen Duncan, fiddle
  • Randy Scruggs, acoustic guitar
  • Steve Martin, 2nd banjo solo
  • Vince Gill, 1st electric guitar solo
  • Marty Stuart, mandolin
  • Gary Scruggs, harmonica
  • Albert Lee, 2nd electric guitar solo
  • Paul Shaffer, piano
  • Jerry Douglas, dobro
  • Leon Russell, organ
  • Glenn Worf, bass
  • Harry Stinson, drums.

I admit I am a little bemused to see Steve Martin and Paul Shaffer (of Dave Letterman fame) in the same band with the immortals of country music. I suspect I know what such lesser luminaries might be feeling. It was once my great privilege to appear in a Jack Vance homage anthology sharing a table of contents with the absolute biggest names among fantasy writers alive today.

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Name the DC or Marvel Character

Posted September 26, 2017 By John C Wright

A recent column of mine complaining about the blotting out of all the mainstream and long loved Marvel characters has been met with what I assume are ceremonial denials but those whose “narrative” (that is, a dogmatically held and deliberately false picture of the universe) requires them to utter these words. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

The rebuttal as stated is that this blotting out is not happening, we are all just imagining it, and this rebuttal is made on two grounds: first, that the original characters under their old names can sometimes be found in comics still for sale. and they made guest appearances during the GENERATIONS event. Second, that heroes dying and other heroes taking up their mantle has happened throughout comic book history, and this time is no different from those other times.

Since these points are either irrelevant, based on a misreading of what was said, or insolently and outrageously false, my instinct is to assume the speakers proposing them do so as mere sophistry, not believing their own words.

But, out of courtesy, and in fear that I am being too harsh and too quick to condemn, I propose a test to weed out any honest misunderstanding from sophistry.

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Last Crusade columns biweekly

Posted September 25, 2017 By John C Wright

The press of other obligations on my writing time has recently increased, so the LAST CRUSADE column, which had been written weekly, will be done every other week until further notice. My apologies to any fans of the column disappointed by this more lax schedule.

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Milo on Comicgate

Posted September 22, 2017 By John C Wright

Worth reading for any fan of comics. Take a look at who these people are and what they do.
https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/09/exit-right-to-comicgate/

Start writing letters to Disney. Someone in that organization must still be interested in making money and pleasing the fans.

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Three Origins of Superheroes

Posted September 22, 2017 By John C Wright

Alexander Macris was my editor when I worked for EveryJoe. I liked working with him and hope to do so again.

Here he gives his theory of the three origins of superheroes:

There are only three origin stories for superheroes. Everything else is just re-mixing on these three ingredients.

  1. Ordinary person accidentally becomes extraordinary through chance.
  2. Determined person becomes extraordinary through dedication and will.
  3. A person born with extraordinary gifts lives up to his birthright.

These are, respectively, proletariat, bourgeois, and aristocratic views of human achievement.
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Lady Thor Exhibit A

Posted September 22, 2017 By John C Wright

At least one correspondent doubted my comments in a recent column about Lady Thor, and accused me not merely of exaggeration, and ignorance, but of practicing deceit.

Whatever the merit of such accusations, they are too wild and unfocused to merit sober rebuttal. No reader is interested in hairsplitting the meaning of phrases like “blot out” and “upstage”, nor is it ever worthwhile to pen rebuttals saying only that I did not say what I did not say.

I plead nolo contendere, since the nuances of the particulars are not needed for my main point.

Instead, I propose instead merely to offer Exhibit A: the duel with Absorbing Man and Titania.

The writing quality or lack thereof you may judge with your own eyes. Whether the dialog is witty and in-character, or breaks the fourth wall to allow the writer to spit venom on the loyal fans, the candid reader may draw his own conclusions.

The difference between this, and the comic opera, mock-Shakespearean nobility and grandeur of the real Thor will be immediately visible to all fans who have read the Kirby and Stan Lee originals, or the Walt Simonson run (Thor #337 to Thor #382).

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Diversity and Comics

Posted September 21, 2017 By John C Wright

Gamergate has started up again. To arms, citizens.

I have become a loyal fan and follower of Zack (not his real name) who works at a Sunny D factory (not his real work) and made videos roasting or praising modern comic books, usually Marvel, which he called “SJW Marvel.”

The name of his channel is Diversity and Comics. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrlzSqLSGj8GIOeT5jrQsJA

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 16, Knife Attack

Posted September 20, 2017 By John C Wright

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 16, Knife Attack, is now posted on Patreon.

Episode 16 Knife Attack

In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost is locked in deadly combat with an unknown assailant in the claustrophobically cramped space of a buried burrowing machine, while that machine is maneuvering in wild climbs and dives to avoid the war machines closing in.

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Not Tired of Winning Yet XXIX

Posted September 19, 2017 By John C Wright

“The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented.”

There have been minor victories this week: First is a new paper published in National Geoscience contains what amounts to an admission that the IPCC report on global warming is wrong, and contains an overestimation, based on skewed computer models, of the rate of global warming.
(http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/19/delingpole-climate-alarmists-finally-admit-we-were-wrong-about-global-warming/)

Second, Trump’s much-mocked claim that he was being wiretapped by the Obama Administration, which Director Coma joined in dismissing, turns out to have been true. Even CNN admits as much:

US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump

These are minor victories. But the speech President Trump gave to the UN was a major victory.

Listening to this clarity and honesty, and comparing it to the studied untruths spoken by Obama when he addressed this corrupt and worthless body, brings delight. For so long, we have waited for someone to speak plain truths to plain liars.

Here is a transcript. I give it in full, so that the reader may luxuriate, as I did, in the brutal straightforwardness and lucidness these words.

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