• ideonek@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Come on, man. You are portraying a scenario when I opened all comics starting now and stopped when I reached a first one with environmental theme? Is this arguing in good faith? The image is old because it’s an important part of his worldview for a long time. One of his enemy from this year is named “Fresh Water Killer”.

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      1 day ago

      I’m not doubting he’s pro-environment, but my original comment referred to characters defined by their environmentalism, and the fact that you’re pushing him so hard as a candidate off something that’s very much a secondary characteristic proves how thin the field is overall.

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        1 day ago

        What his primary characteristic in your mind?

        I agree how the filed is overall. He’s a very small represnetiarion. But I stand by that he’s a valid one.

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          1 day ago

          Put it this way, none of the writers of the Wikipedia article on him have included mentions of environmentalism anywhere close to the opening paragraphs.

          Though ironically enough, given what the thread was originally about, the only reference to a environmental activism I can see in there is one where he infiltrates a gang of eco-terrorists to take them down…

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            1 day ago

            I ment Swamp Thing! Swamp Thing!

            Albo, I think Poison Ivey is anti-hero now. So… progress?

            Also, Also super heros are by defintion rectionary - it’s a whole thing, there is a book about it. So you may hava a point.

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              23 hours ago

              super heros are by defintion rectionary

              The other thing that occurs to me is that in most “environmentalist” storylines, the villain’s polluting is done illegally, so the hero already represents the status quo.

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                19 hours ago

                That is… a very good point. Not only in the environmental niche, we desperately crave more “it may be legal, but it needs to be stopped” stories. It would actually make more sense narratively. Gave them the actual reason to vigilante.