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Re:Comics I Loved in 2023 by Cthulhu_ on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:07PM (#38902926)
Can you explain? X-Men (starting in 1963, popular cartoon adaptation in the 90's) had a clear and unsubtle anti-racist, anti-apartheid message. Batman had an underlying message of classism and even homosexuality according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman#Interpretations.

I don't get commenters going "X has gone woke" when that's nothing new. Sure, a lot of modern-day media is overt and often unsubtle in its more liberal viewpoints to the point where it seems to detract from the story itself, but that's not a bad thing per sé if it means marginalized communities feel more represented and the non-marginalized communities get a counter from the preceding era's straight/white/male dominance.

Re:Comics I Loved in 2023 by flumpcakes on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:09PM (#38903515)
Perhaps it's the art of subtly that has been lost. You could argue than any media is political, which is trite. Sometimes entertainment is just entertainment.