July 18, 2017
Train-Wreck, Parody or Brilliance?
I thought this had to be parody...DC is rebooting Snagglepuss.
This time it's gonna be gritty and relevant and totally surprising because the character is gonna be (get this!)...
Who'd have thunk it!?
HIM!?
That paragon of burly, lumberjack virility?
Heavens to Murgatroyd! This development is shocking, edgy and subversive to basically nobody.
What's more, in the reboot he's gonna be a gay southern gothic playwright.
Wait...
This could be BRILLIANT!
An effete' southern dandy who, by night, stalks the streets of Savannah as a tough as nails vigilante with a bobcat or panther motif. This could actually work!
Oh wait.
Oh dear GOD...there's going to be a Suicide Squad/Bananna Splits crossover.
OK. This appears to be yet another travesty.
Hmmm... it seems that nobody has thought to bitch, moan or whine about the perpetuation of gay stereotypes yet.
Are we sure this story is not a parody?
"In this day and age, how would you know...even?"
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Posted by: J Greely at Tue Jul 18 18:36:32 2017 (JkjJR)
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After that, scandal! Grape Ape is found to have been performing in purpleface all these years!
Posted by: mikeski at Tue Jul 18 19:26:51 2017 (JlqQx)
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Look it up, the Flinstones comic was apparently extremely grim, written from the perspective of the animals captured and enslaved to be their household appliances. (The grieving over the death of the vacuum-cleaner baby mammoth was supposed to be very touching).
Posted by: Mauser at Tue Jul 18 20:18:01 2017 (TYvUn)
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DC saw how Marvel threw up a big middle finger to their fans and decided they wanted some of that, I guess.
Posted by: Rick C at Wed Jul 19 12:55:42 2017 (ITnFO)
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I dunno.
As you say, some of those, particularly Captain Hydra, were just gestures of contempt towards the fandom, but a gay Snagglepuss doesn't really change...anything.
The Suicide Squad crossover with the Bananna Splits is certainly cause for concern, but on the whole this thing strikes me as silly and bizarre as opposed to the very hatefull vibe I've gotten from some of these re-boots.
As you say, some of those, particularly Captain Hydra, were just gestures of contempt towards the fandom, but a gay Snagglepuss doesn't really change...anything.
The Suicide Squad crossover with the Bananna Splits is certainly cause for concern, but on the whole this thing strikes me as silly and bizarre as opposed to the very hatefull vibe I've gotten from some of these re-boots.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Jul 19 21:07:45 2017 (KicmI)
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A lot of this that's being done, especially with older properties...I think we've just gone beyond any of it mattering. On the public stage, anyway, most of the public considers it all farce or intended insult regardless. When all given actions of a particular intent or character are no longer taken seriously except by those that engage in those actions...the action has no power. You could turn Superman into crack-smoking, evil, lesbian Nazi engineered from Ronald Reagan's ashes...no more people are going to get upset than would get upset by a much lesser offense. I think we've been "shocked" numb already.
Posted by: Ben at Wed Jul 19 21:40:10 2017 (S4UJw)
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Yeah, I pretty much stopped paying attention to these gimmicks when Marvel dug deep into the archives and made one of their Old West heroes gay. They're hoping for praise and outrage, but I can't even muster up an eye-roll any more.
-j
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Wed Jul 19 23:57:23 2017 (tgyIO)
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