Have the fuckers who say that kind of shit ever actually READ a comic? I mean…comics have ALWAYS fucking been political.

Steve Rogers was created as the US was starting to get involved in WW2 as a Nazi-punching symbol of patriotism. V for Vendetta exists because Alan Moore hated Margaret Thatcher and everything she stood for—the subplot about LGBT+ persecution was a direct response to anti-LGBT+ legislation pushed by Thatcher. Kate Kane (different from Kathy Kane) has a backstory that was written as a direct response to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and Batwoman’s story is littered with references to real-world LGBT+ soldiers who stood up to DADT. The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes Again had a lot to say about the presidential regimes they were written under (respectively, Reagan and Bush). Hawk and Dove were created to represent the two sides of public opinion during the Vietnam War. Max Eisenhardt/Magneto is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and his experiences of ethno-religious persecution have always been a major factor in shaping his motivations and choices. And that’s just a few examples off the top of my head. I could get into the “conservative vs. liberal” themes/coding of Green Lantern and Green Arrow’s teamups, Green Arrow’s Marxist leanings, the long list of characters whose racial, ethnic or ethnoreligious backgrounds play an important part in their characters and motives (e.g. Luke Cage, Static, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Batwoman…) or disabled superheroes (e.g. Daredevil, Echo, Oracle, Hawkeye), the Nazi/Neo-Nazi entanglements of Hydra, the philosophical/political explorations of classic Vertigo comics…but you know what, I’ll leave it at this for now:

Art is political, and comics are no exception. Comics have always been political, but they’re getting more inclusive so that there isn’t just one type of voice deciding what politics make it into publication. That’s progress, whatever these fake geek fuckers may think it isn’t.