Citizen no more Options

[Cary]

http://comicrelated.com/blog.php#american-way-no-more

So I read that yesterday and the more I think about it the more it pisses me off. You can take all your sweet little PC talk about how the world is so much smaller these days and shove it. Superman has always fought for truth justice and the AMERICAN way. That's who he is. If he had fallen to Earth in Russia things might be different, but he didn't. So now they strip yet another piece of the character away, in what I can only view as a marketing scheme. They should have left him dead after Doomsday. This...is a travesty. DC comics should be ashamed.

[Gonzogoose]

Cary, it's not that I don't understand... I am American after all, always have been. It's funny, anytime I disagree with you, you think I just don't understand or get it. I get it. But my point is it's a marketing ploy and therefore means nothing. You really think DC is going to alienate American fans of Superman for a long period of time? Well, any more than they already have that is...

Listen to Zone 4 next week. One important fact I overlooked is that David S. Goyer, the writer for this story, is also the writer of next year's Man of Steel film. Obviously it's either something noted in the film, or he's preparing audiences for the fact that Superman is the world's and not just America's. Regardless, it's still a marketing ploy (something I played down at first, but clearly see now), and as Mark said, you're being sucked in by it. I'm choosing to side step it.

[Cary]

Cary, it's not that I don't understand... I am American after all, always have been. It's funny, anytime I disagree with you, you think I just don't understand or get it. I get it. But my point is it's a marketing ploy and therefore means nothing. You really think DC is going to alienate American fans of Superman for a long period of time? Well, any more than they already have that is...

Listen to Zone 4 next week. One important fact I overlooked is that David S. Goyer, the writer for this story, is also the writer of next year's Man of Steel film. Obviously it's either something noted in the film, or he's preparing audiences for the fact that Superman is the world's and not just America's. Regardless, it's still a marketing ploy (something I played down at first, but clearly see now), and as Mark said, you're being sucked in by it. I'm choosing to side step it.

I say you don't get it, because your statements lead me to believe just that. I understand it's a marketing ploy. In fact if you read my very first post, I said that very thing. It's pretty obvious really, if you look at it. Does that make it less wrong somehow? "Oh it's ok that they did that, it was only a marketing thing." That's a BS excuse, and it excuses nothing. Doesn't matter why they did it, what matters is it's wrong.

As to playing right into their hands by raging about it...that's how people get rounded up and put into camps. By not speaking out about something that's wrong and thinking that if we ignore it the problem will somehow go away. I'd rather do my part to get the word out, regardless of how small that might be, thanks. In addition, I will continue speaking with my wallet as well, and pass on DC comics. With stories like this, they certainly don't want my business.