Wait a second, is that a squirrel these f@cktards were trying to butcher? Bwahahaha, where the hell is Squirrel Girl when you finally need her? I mean, damn, she could've devoured these pricks on panel and no one would accuse her as this character happens to be criticism (and basically every -ism) free no matter what she does. Hell, I could actually grow a sentiment towards her if that was done right, just think about a dark and gritty turn for SG where she has to avenge defenseless and totemic to her creatures even from such an a unconventional foe with extreme prejudice. Delicious.
Kid Fish was indeed an attempt to be a character, with a writer more subtle than Austen such a character can be very tragic and touching, admittedly at times he even was, it's just the overall cringeworthy writing that never let him become the symbol of what he was supposed to be.
Now on a more serious note, what this ridiculously written comic touches upon isn't ridiculous at all actually. Environmentalism, speciesism, classicism, a deepest gesture at the core of human nature, that's the X-comic done right. I think this is the mutant metaphor done right, this is the right drive to have, because quite frankly, overpowered models with a couple of adorable freaks happen to make an extremely forced metaphor for the oppressed and persecuted. It can be, because human nature won't let anyone replace them at the top of the food chain, with this angle, yes.
Regardless, obviously Austen lost the title of being the worst X-writer at this point. After everything we've seen, that badnwagon should be officially dead.
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