Can we please have more stories where superheroes tackle important problems that don't say that the only way for them to solve things is to become fascists who have to take over the world?
Don't get me wrong, you can't just have them permanently solve those problems. That would extremely tone deaf and disrespectful. But I do want to see more stories where superheroes stand against them.
It's hard to do. It needs careful research and it requires having the people who suffer with those problems involved as creators and consultants.
I know that when it's done with the big names these stories at their best ended up as pure power fantasy, but at least it can be a good fantasy.
I'm tired of characters likes Superman being the ultimate conformists who just tell us to "Hope harder".
For all the flaws on Morrison's Action, at least we got to see his Superman actually trying to help poor people in Metropolis, both as Superman and as Clark.
Superman Smashes the Klan is maybe the most relevant Superman story we had since All-Star. Because it tries, and for the most part succeeds, at having Clark tackle important problems in a respectful manner.
Gene Luen Yang is a huge part of why that stories work and I'm super-excited to see what more he'll bring to the table for Superman.
Wonder Woman is the same thing. As fun as Rucka's second run was, it's was for the most part about retconing all the gack of the New 52.
And overall it's a good book, and if memory doesn't fail me there is one very good scene where Diana and a group of women banish the god that transformed Barbara Ann into Cheetah, but that's all I remember.
And once Rucka was out the book completely fell apart, with only a few arcs by Steve Orlando being readable. I have not read G. Willow Wilson's run, but I hope she did try to have Diana deal with the problems she's supposed to tackle.
I don't know if I phrased everything in this thread the best way I could, but I do hope I managed to get my point across.
Really, I just want even more books like Immortal Hulk or Smashes the Klan, and for more diverse voices to write these characters I lovem
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