But that’s just it; they used real world stuff as allegory and then said in the end “people who lock people up in hell prisons without trial are heroes! People who fake terrorist attacks to stampede the populace into doing what they want are wonderful!”, and so on.

It’s exactly the same as if you used all the tropes and metaphors from the civil rights struggle — police dogs, firehoses, teenagers lynched for registering people to vote, leaders shot down, people oppressed because of their color — and then said “Martin Luther King was wrong” and launched a brand new title where the CCC sponsors a group as poster kids for their victory. Said kids may not be personally racist, said book might be full of adorable wackiness, but it’s still celebrating and promoting something vile, and I would say “Fuck you and all your works.”

Which is what I’ve done to Marvel, with the exception of Thor and Iron Fist, which are currently managing to remain separate from the whole mess (Iron Fist is probably doomed once it gets back to Earth, sadly.)

Which is not to say that people shouldn’t have *checked it out*. Good lord, what the hell is friggin’ New Warriors doing still around when this book accomplished more in a single issue than that comic has in its whole run so far?

The Order has giant turtles! Lesbians! Zombies! Bears! Russian midgets! Lesbians! The Nintendo Wii! A blonde pop princess who is actually likable! Government conspiracies! Talking swords! An entire gang of lesbians! What more do you people want?

It certainly didn’t help with me, given that “The Order” was the name of a real life murderous white supremacist gang back in the 80s. Based and named after a group in William Pierce’s eliminationist novel The Turner Diaries.

This is mostly because of Five Fists of Science, a work that I felt was ultimately mediocre and the five or six issues of Punisher: War Journal I picked up, which showed me the fun, playful side of Frank Castle. Maybe it’s just me, but while there are certainly psychopaths out there who quip like Spider-Man in their manifestos, The Punisher probably shouldn’t be one of them.

Casanova was alright, but there’s always been something about the book that just doesn’t click for me… Absolutely love Gabriel Ba’s artwork though.

Anyway, maybe his writing style fits well with this group of all original characters, so I’d be willing to check it out, but I’m VERY hesitant to ever purchase the man’s work again without giving it a full read first. Yet another example of why I should start bit torrenting comics and only buy the ones I really dig.