Matt Zimmer's Journal

I feel like nobody has voiced the most important drawback, which goes for most Marvel stuff to begin with. It's the elephant in the room.

"Why isn't Echo punching out talking gorillas?"

And why should I give a fuck about ANYTHING that happens to her, or Spider-Man, or the Avengers, or the X-Men if they ain't shutting up the toxic Objectivist bullshit the Gorilla invariably spews to sound learned and human, but is actually the exact reason they need to get punched out in the first place?

Kingpin? I'm sorry Vincent D'Noffrio. You are not a gorilla. You do not matter. Sure, you deserved to get punched too. But I take no joy in it the way a good old fashioned monkey ass-whomping satisfies me.

It's not wokeness or identity politics that is the MCU's downfall. It's the lack of heroes hitting talking primates. As flawed as the DC Universe is, it doesn't seem to really have this problem. Even Batman fought giant bugs in the TNBA episode "Critters", so you understand everybody in that company gets the JIST of why superhero comic books are important, and should be read. Marvel is sadly lacking there, and Echo has suffered for it. That's all the bad vibes boil down to. Not enough talking apes getting their asses kicked and jaws broken. It's a company wide problem, and I don't think the comic book industry can ever fix itself until every creator everywhere is on the same page here.

UPDATE

I think Dwayne McDuffie was the greatest superhero writer who ever lived because he was one of the only superhero writers who actually knew this fact. McDuffie's death was not just a loss for the industry. It was a loss for unjustly intact gorilla jaws everywhere.

He sold his soul accepting the job at DC, even defended Zaslav destroying Batgirl, and now he looks like the dumbass of the year. His golden boy status among nerds is totally gone.

By the way, his Suicide Squad movie sucked ass too. Thought that bore mentioning.