janothar:

So, I have a few things to say about the current Magneto…mess.  It took me some time to figure out what I wanted to say.  So first, everyone needs to go and read a summary (or the actual comic) of Uncanny X-Men 199.  I just read it recently, and I’m certain that this colors my thoughts.

Super short version: One of the subplots is Magneto taking Kitty Pryde to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to try to help her find out what happened to her great Aunt.  It turns out that he knew her in Auschwitz under her married name, which is why he didn’t realize until someone else came forward.  He’s being remembered by the other survivors as someone who worked hard to keep as many people around him alive as he could.  (then Mystique shows up to arrest him and starts a fight IN THE MUSEUM…I hate Mystique, TBQH, but this is a bit of an aside.)

So today, I wake up and hear that Magneto is joining Hydra.  HYDRA.  The fascist organization that AT THE LEAST collaborated with the Nazis, and depending on which continuity you like, are actual Nazis.  They are lead by the Red Skull, a literal Nazi.

This is the same writer, Nick Spencer, who decided that Captain America, a character modeled on the golem to try to prod America into fighting the Nazis and saving the Jews of Europe, was not just Hydra, but had ALWAYS been Hydra.  This was shitting all over Jack Kirby’s legacy, as well as that of Joe Simon (I only prioritize Kirby due to his real life anti-Nazi exploits).  It indicated a lack of care for a legacy character that was placed in his care.

And now he’s at it again.

In between, he had villainous “social justice warriors” and had Sam Wilson apologize to a white guy for bringing up race.

Nick Spencer is a white supremacist.

I tend to not drop these accusations lightly, but he’s established a pattern.  Even aside from his on-the-page garbage, he’s been particularly awful to fans on social media who object to his “creative” choices.  In general, his behavior has been worse towards minorities, of course, and this is after controlling for the fact that minorities, Jews in particular regarding Cap and Black people re: Wilson are the ones directly hurt by his terrible actions.

@marvel, you need to fire him.  He is dragging your most popular characters through the mud for some cheap publicity and to promote his hateful agenda.  I, previously, maintained a subscription to Marvel Unlimited, bought several monthly comics in addition to that, and regularly bought the collections.  And that’s just the business that the comics division got from me.  That’s all over, until Nick Spencer is no longer writing for Marvel.  As much as I hate to do so, I will not be buying Miss Marvel, I will not be buying Spider-Man, and I won’t be buying X-Men.  I CERTAINLY won’t be touching any of the garbage Nick Spencer has touched until the damage he’s done has been undone.  You just blew up the continuity recently, but you already need to do it again, just to salvage the fundamental nature of several of your most popular characters.