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Brian Hughes
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Posted: 27 June 2026 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
The Thinking Critical youtube channel released an episode of "The Geek Fix" yesterday where they listed out all the reasons for the boycott.  They then researched JB transgressions.  It is worth listening to to get the whole gist of it all.

You can watch it here:  https://www.youtube.com/@Wes_From_TC/videos

I will say this though:  An editor at Marvel would have known that pre-sales of the book would have happened months ago.  The only reason to demand a boycott now is the book is finally getting the press it deserves and she wants some of the attention.  
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Edward Aycock
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Posted: 27 June 2026 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
She has caused The Streisand Effect.  

Whatever somebody's beef is, being a professional at your job should mean you don't call for a public boycott against another professional for the crime of having an opinion, and not a violent or nasty one.  People are bringing up that she has been the victim of some really nasty fanboy behavior before, and yeah, it's true, but it has no bearing upon this issue or JB. 

Can we not question things or start conversations on a subject we are not familiar with? 

By the way, Happy Pride all.  


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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 28 June 2026 at 12:42am | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Wow, but that thinking critical video is some unwatchable whiny shit. They’re clearly just using this instance to get a platform for their whole Sad Puppies shtick.
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Posted: 28 June 2026 at 2:34am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Dave Kopperman, I thought the same, especially at the end where they seem to get off on Andrew's terrible actions, the way they gloat over the "male feminists" being taken down, ignoring all the skeevy pastors in this country.  
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Posted: 28 June 2026 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Under the heading of Not Getting It, I have been seeing comments—happily few and far between—complaining about my portrayal of Magneto in ELSEWHEN. These readers want what Chris Claremont turned him into over the years after I left, not an accurate representation of the character from this vintage.

Got the same complaints about HIDDEN YEARS—although there the grumblers seemed unaware that the Master of Magnetism had ever been portrayed as anything other than a noble “freedom fighter”!!

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Posted: 28 June 2026 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
I've been meaning to point out that ELSEWHEN really didn't pillage any of Chris' contributions to the book up through #137.

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