"Q For Queer!"

Hilarious

I'm gay and I wasn't even remotely offended by the satirical use of the word "homo" or "queer". Note to bleeding heart reactionary idiots: bleed someplace else.

Comic books aren’t like television or movies. Gay comics won’t work. You can put anything on Television, simply put. But I never found it extemely interesting turning characters gay.

There’s no problem with people not liking it. Why are people supposed to be required to like it? By some definitions people do homophobic things everyday: men date woman and women date men. It’s not a prerequisite to like gay collosus. Are most people going to act like they find it normal, only if it prevents them from being harrassed.

Gay collosus probably just another unneccesary update in the universe. You change the characters too much,you may as well change their name.

To everyone who says that homophobia isn't funny, I give you exhibit A.

Irony! I was pointing out the poor logic of your argument. Your tactic of treating someone's specific statement as if it were a generalization is a common error in rhetoric and especially on the internet. We've all seen it a million times, and it doesn't hold up. Let me be as explicit as possible: the poster isn't comparing the writers of one piece to the other. He is comparing one specific use of an offensive slur in one piece to one specific use of an offensive slur in the other, and the comparison doesn't go any further than that. So stop pretending that it does.

Is this really that hard for fanboys to understand? I thought they were obsessed with this kind of minutae.

Wow, you have a bizarre definition of "comparing". The guy explicitly compared the post to 'Blazing Saddles'; if you don't understand that that is also comparing the writers of the post to the writers of 'Blazing Saddles', I don't know what to tell you.

"Good work, son."

Thanks. Wish I could say the same, but your post is pretty illogical.

Actually, I'm kinda with Anonymous on that; I do think it's one of those lame tricks of the Ultimate Universe that they say, "Hey, we're cutting edge, this guy here? He's BLACK now! And, woah, this guy? He's totally gay!" I understand and support the need for diversity, that just seems like a really surfacey way to do it. (I liked Michael Clarke Duncan in 'Daredevil', because he's a good big actor, and because they made the character black, as opposed to just making his face black.)

However, if a writer were to write an arc where mainstream Colossus gradually comes to terms with his own homosexuality, and eventually embraces it, that would be cool. So it's not the "turning gay" that bothers me [although, when phrased that way, it sounds lame], it's just the way the Ultimate universe does stuff like that that seems lame.

Although Colossus has always been pretty lame anyway; this does sound like the most interesting thing they've ever done with him.

This was funnier than anything in the post that started the thread. Well done, Anonymous, you are truly a master of subtle satire.

"Like the continued use of “n----r” undercut the message of Blazing Saddles?"

Are you really comparing Brian and Jake to Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor?

1 cent: metal is gay. Its all about the glitter and the stainless steel home furnishings.
2 cent: come on, he would certainly be more into someone less like Logan and more like Bobby. (wait is Bobby dead in ultimates? I tend to forget and not care.)

Maybe Brian should have explained what was going on in this post. I don't know. But that might have helped as I was sitting there going, "What in the world am I reading?!"

I think that it's very hard to be satirical out of context like this. And saying that things are funny or not is very hard to do. Some people like Wes Anderson movies and others enjoy Scary Movie. To each his own.

There's no problem with people not liking it. Why are people supposed to be required to like it? By some definitions people do homophobic things everyday: men date woman and women date men. It's not a prerequisite to like gay collosus. Are most people going to act like they find it normal, only if it prevents them from being harrassed.

Gay collosus probably just another unneccesary update in the universe. You change the characters too much,you may as well change their name.

Actually, no, it's not the context. It's just that people are stupid.

Have a good day.
John Cage

It's a pretty spot-on parody of X-men fans, really. They're all insane and take shit way to seriously.

And I guess I know/have lived with enough gay people t'not be knee-jerkedly offended when the word "homo" is used in an ironic context.

This? Made me laugh aloud.

The rest of the piece, I think, may too in-jokey for me to really appreciate...but boy, do I recognise the broad outlines from other boards.

Either way, I'm having a really, really hard time believing that anyone could miss the satirical intent here. Apodaca's right; if you get upset, you automatically become part of the gag.