[daetrin]

Okay ... here goes ...

I started collecting in the 80's, read my way back through the 70's, gave the 90's a try but false notions of my own adulthood combined with a lot of both written and drawn testosterone and clones made me abandon Marvel comics halfway through the 90's. Then came everything after the whole Y2K thingamabob and Marvel managed to hook me back in.

Throughout all those years, Marvel has made some wonderful and some very wrong stories. But the selection has always been broad enough for me to scratch my own personal itch.

Granted, being a north-western European, employed, married man with three wonderful daughters and no ties (beyond the obvious media intake) to the US, will colour my perspective on what I am about to write.

What the &^%$# is going on?
Whenever I read about "the state of comics" it inadvertently ends up being a heated discussion in which terms like "PC" or "social justice warriors" get thrown around.
Absolute honesty: I had to look them up and was very very surprised they were meant as negative remarks.

Is this a recent thing to which I am just these past few years getting exposed to?
Or did I just completely miss these sentiments, sheltered as my life has been?

I did not notice an outcry when the new Spider-Woman was introduced as Arana? Or when the crippled Doctor Blake was replaced by the flashy Eric Masterson? Or when James Rhodes took over from Tony?
And to me, the Marvel Universe has always been a place of great empathy, flaws and struggles to do the right thing.
To err and learn from the experience.

Anywho, would like to learn from you all.