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Peter Martin
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Posted: 21 April 2025 at 8:55pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

A lot of superhero characters are potentially lame and it's a testament to good storytelling (and respect for the characters and medium) that most are pretty cool.

For the record, Puck was a good character. What is lame in that list is the contempt shown by the storytellers in the panels with Spider-Man and Paste-Pot-Pete.

There's nothing cool about a writer or artist looking down their nose at the characters they are working with.

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Posted: 21 April 2025 at 9:06pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

Sadly, as the market has shrunk, the ennui-engorged fanboys have increased their numbers, proportionally, and as some of them have even crossed over to the professional side, their influence has increased accordingly. Look at the kinds of stories that have pushed their way to the fore, where honor and nobility are to be scoffed at, and authority figures are deliberately diminished.

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Brennan Voboril
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Posted: 21 April 2025 at 10:56pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

Could not agree more. As a child comics taught me so much about doing the right thing, honor, bravery, etc. Today’s books?

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