Marvel to launch "Create Your Own Comic" app, but "social issues" and "alternative lifestyle advocacy" are banned

This is guaranteed to get decompiled, cloned and resold by more malicious actors. Chinese hackers looking to infect phones, or porn site operators.

On the other hand, getting your work stolen by porn site operators is sort of a compliment.

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I was thinking that as well. It gives them enough CYA to nuke anything for just about any reason. It’s possible that they let just about anything slide, just so long as it’s not critical of Marvel or involves underage characters doing scandalous things.

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Its just a phase. They will grow out of it. :slight_smile:

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So my Stucky mpreg coffeeshop AU is okay then?

[I cannot believe I just put those words in a sentence.]

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Can’t wait to see the work-arounds that people are bound to come up with.

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A-yup.

Invention, thy mother is constraint.
(or something like that…)

Srsly tho, so defiant is the human spirit that the most creative solutions I’ve come up with in my life have been when someone roped me in. So this should be fun.

Oh, and that gif totes yoinked.

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For every system that exists, there is always a means to circumvent that system.

What, you mean you didn’t have it already?!

:wink:

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Maybe.

Maybe they could have added another 10 words to the site and we would KNOW.

So file under: This is why we can’t have nice things?

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I’ve been kicking around a dystopian sci fi short story idea where AI dictates human systems completely. Politics, economics, Healthcare, etc. And it has determined that Humans are so good at gaming systems that it randomly generates fully formed systems and rules every 10 years or something to reset our progress in entrenching interests in those systems.

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Oh for Pete Parker’s sake…

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Hulk smash the state!

The Uncanny X-Men in… “The Chinese Restaurant”!

Storm: Ya know, it’s not fair people are seated “first come, first served”, it should be based on who’s hungriest. I feel like just going over there and taking some food off somebody’s plate.
Cyclops: I’ll tell you what, there’s 50 bucks in it for you if you do it.
Storm: What do you mean?
Cyclops: You walk over that table, you pick up an eggroll, you don’t say anything, you eat it, say ‘thank you very much’, wipe your mouth, walk away – I give you 50 bucks.
Nightcrawler: What are they gonna do?
Cyclops: They won’t do anything; in fact, you’ll be giving them a story to tell for the rest of their lives.
Storm: 50 bucks, you’ll give me 50 bucks?
Cyclops: 50 bucks. That table over there, the three couples.
Storm: OK, I don’t wanna go over there and do it, and then come back here and
find out there was some little loophole, like I didn’t put mustard on it or something…
Cyclops: No, no tricks.
Storm: Should I do it, Kurt?
Nightcrawler: For 50 bucks? I’d put my face in the soup and blow.
Storm: Alright, alright. Here, hold this. I’m doin’ it.

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Oh certainly; mostly I was just using the Red Meat universe to make a silly joke (which means coming up with a reason for Karen to hate Milkman Dan, and him not knowing which characters belong to which universe (or knowing but trolling a fan) is as good an excuse as any).

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  1. Chinese gov crib sheet - that’s possible closer to the truth than the good people at Marvel Disney would want to admit to.
  2. The Punisher drinking chamomile tea - you monster!
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To paraphrase Karl Kraus, any satire that is understood by the censors is rightly forbidden.

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via Imgflip Meme Generator

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But, this is still ok, right?

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So it won’t have Bobby Drake/Iceman? Or Mystique?

In fact there are a lot of LGBT characters. Just look for Earth 616 so Marvel can’t claim that it’s an alternative universe or something.

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This is exactly what I thought!
They have entire comic lines devoted to social justice issues - aimed at younger readers (champions anyone?)
It was Marvel “Pride Month” on their website a couple months ago, celebrating the LGBTI characters.
Half their female.character have revealing clothing.
Even freaking iron man was/is an alcoholic.
I honestly can’t think of a single line that doesn’t include either social issues, lgbti characters, sex or murder as key points.
Honestly aliens are out? Goodbye Captain Marvel who is the closest I can think of to kid friendly

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