Secret Empire isn't just meaningless as commentary on modern fascism or fascism at all, it's increasingly an incoherent salad of ideas
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Replying to @spacetwinks
in removing the real bigotry that motivates fascism in america and in the world and all of history, they're left with metaphors only
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Replying to @spacetwinks
metaphors that are already bad, being handled by people who face no oppression to begin with, tied into decades of continuity shit
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Replying to @spacetwinks
so you get this fucking bizarre jumble of ideas vaguely stabbing around the idea of fascism looking for SOMETHING to say
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Replying to @spacetwinks
amplify that all ten fold because this is a Big Deal Event Comic and there's gotta be a million goddamn things happening at once
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Replying to @spacetwinks
like Avengers Vs. X-Men was a stupid event comic, but that was its entire purpose - be a stupid punch 'em up event comic
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Replying to @spacetwinks
Secret Empire tries to angle itself as being more ambitious, more "political", while also trying to strip out the actual politics
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Replying to @spacetwinks
so now it's just a fucked up bizarre mess? there's no coherency to the themes or message here beyond "fascism bad, i guess?"
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and a little brave exploration of "what if the people who always get murdered by fascism... actually deserve it?"
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Replying to @chaosprime
yeah lmao trying to tie the inhumans vs mutants stuff in this while ALSO still using them as minority metaphors = uhhhhhhhhh
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