An X-Men, Dark Forces Theory of Jeff Weaver?

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I had no idea Weaver ran a comic book store until that article, but that was the part that made it all come together. I’m a geek myself, and quite familiar with the worst parts of geek culture. There’s very much an attitude that there are dark conspiracies afoot at all times to take down your favorite characters. X-Men getting downplayed in the comics? It’s because Fox owns the movie rights. Books written about people who aren’t you winning the Hugos? It’s because a cabal of SJWs are preventing deserving straight white men from winning.

And the response is always, “Burn it down.” Hell, I feel that way about the DC Cinematic Universe. I was pleased at the critical and financial drubbing Batman vs. Superman received. Fuck it. You can always reboot it.

But you can’t reboot America. That’s apparently Jeff Weaver’s dream. Americans will either realize the genius of Bernie, or we’ll get the Trumpian nightmare we deserve, and then reboot the whole thing after we get sick of Trump’s shenanigans. Mind you, he’s a straight, white, cis man, so this whole nightmare won’t affect him nearly as much as it will my interracial gay family with an adopted black child. But my point is that to understand Jeff Weaver, walk into a comic shop and bring up DC’s Rebirth reboot that’s launching. Watch the argument that breaks out, and you’ll see as below, so above.

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