>Kevin Smith’s “Spider-Man/Hulk: Fire and Brimstone” #1 introduces a new all-male supervillain group called the Manosphere, led by Mole Man and stocked with C-listers including Stilt-Man and Sandman. Spider-Man narrates the issue as the team causes chaos across the Marvel Universe, with the loaded term doing exactly the work it’s designed to do: taking a real online subculture and turning it into a punchline villain roster for a Big Two superhero book.>Smith didn’t need to reach for a manosphere-branded villain team to fill out a Spider-Man/Hulk crossover. Marvel has decades of forgettable henchmen sitting in a filing cabinet waiting to be used. The choice to name the group after a specific, politically loaded internet culture is a decision, not a coincidence, and it fits a pattern Smith has run for years: importing whatever cultural hot button is nearby into a mainstream superhero book, then leaning on the shock value to generate buzz.>This is not new territory for him. Smith’s 2009 “Batman: The Widening Gyre” had a fifteen-year-old girl leave an infant with Daredevil, claiming a virgin birth and insisting the child was either the Messiah or the Antichrist. His run on “Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do” opened with Black Cat’s sexual assault as the inciting incident for the entire miniseries, then took four years between issues to finish telling that story, a gap long enough that readers had largely moved on by the time it wrapped. His “Daredevil” work on “Guardian Devil” gave Karen Page an HIV diagnosis that escalated to full AIDS as a plot twist, then reversed it entirely by revealing she was never sick in the first place, treating a real disease as a cliffhanger gimmick rather than a story worth telling honestly.
>>155112550Your wife is still not returning Jon
>Add to that his reputation for simply not finishing what he starts. “Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target” shipped one issue of a planned four-issue run in 2002 and never continued. “The Widening Gyre” was billed as the first half of a longer story with a sequel that never materialized. Smith has openly admitted his lateness made him close to unwelcome in the industry before his Batman work gave him a second chance. A writer with that track record reaching for a culture-war villain name in 2026 isn’t taking a creative risk. It’s a reliable play from a well-worn deck.>Smith is about to become one of the most visible writers in the entire Marvel line. “Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles,” his five-issue crossover with artist David Marquez, launches in January 2027 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of “A New Hope,” bringing Luke Skywalker, Leia, Han Solo, and Chewbacca into Earth-616 alongside the Avengers and Spider-Man, while Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire team up with Doctor Doom, Ultron, and Thanos. It is a genuine marquee event for Marvel and Lucasfilm both, positioned as a fiftieth-anniversary centerpiece, and it puts Smith in charge of one of the most anticipated superhero-meets-Star Wars stories ever published.>Fans hoping “Fire and Brimstone” was an isolated stumble should look at the twenty-plus years of pattern behind it. Smith has consistently used shock elements, whether it’s a fake virgin birth, a hero’s sexual assault backstory, a disease used as a plot twist, or now a named internet subculture turned into cannon fodder, as a substitute for stories that hold together without the gimmick. There’s no reason to expect “Hope Assembles” will play it straight when the writer has spent two decades reaching for the same trick.>Does Marvel actually vet what Smith puts in these scripts, or is his name alone enough to get a green light regardless of what he does with it?
>>155112550>retarded liberal slop
>>155112550I can’t believe Marvel put Kevin Smith in charge of the Marvel/Star Wars crossover.
>I've got a team in mind
>>155112550Oh. Look. More "Outrage Marketing". Don't care, not reading, not even for free. The House that Stan & Jack built has become a desolate burned out crackhouse. The "Outrage Marketing" is just a last ditch cry for attention. They think it works, they claim it works, yet readership continues to plummet year after year. Again, I won't even read this for free. Shame on you for raping Marvel's dying corpse.
>>155112550>Smith’s 2009 “Batman: The Widening Gyre” had a fifteen-year-old girl leave an infant with Daredevil, claiming a virgin birth and insisting the child was either the Messiah or the AntichristWhat a wild crossover that was.
>>155112550I'm going to assume this is another shitty fandom pulse "article" that's just the author using chatgpt to summarize some comics news he saw on twitter with a dash of his culture war outrage baiting as usual. Fucker is on the same level as Indian content farm blogs.
>>155112550>Smith’s 2009 “Batman: The Widening Gyre” had a fifteen-year-old girl leave an infant with Daredevil, claiming a virgin birth and insisting the child was either the Messiah or the AntichristRemember the next time you let yourself get whipped up by some outrage farm these are the people creating them.
>>155112550Kevin must have time-warped from 2016 to still be at this shit
>>155112550Oh look another chud is triggered and has to copy paste their blog here for engagement
>>155112570>15k subs>11k subs>9k subsis this bait?
Whatever happened to that all woman super villain team that wanted to turn Captain America into a chick?
That's a lot of words about a dumb joke.
Woman got insanley radicilaized by the internet. right now they are protesting for a woman who murdered her children to go free. Liberals espeically liberal men are natural cowards so of course they refuse to adress the real issue and make up boggy man with no real power
>>155112550Manosphere sounds like what you would call a group of Trannies, because they are men but pretend like they are build to press out sphere shaped baby heads out of their fictional womb
>>155113973
>>155114068Yeah it's getting nuts. Really thought losing to Trump a second time would humble them, but here we are
>>155113859The actual Manosphere is a lot more diffuse and scattered ideologically than it looks from the outside. There's no real "leader" of the Manosphere, just competing ideologies that don't even agree or are even hostile to each other, it ranges from MRA to pick up artists to MGTOW to genuine incels. This is why even if you dragged every big Manosphere channel out and shot the 10 biggest guys the "movement" wouldn't just poof into thin air. The only thing they agree is that modern men have the short end of the stick of life, otherwise solutions and philosophies differ.
>>155112550I feel like this is just gonna be a lot of shitting on Clavicular in particular even though he’s not right wing at all
>>155113859you tell me, anon
>>155114224please understandwe have to keep hating men who are literally just stepping up to meet women's unattainable standards, regardless if what clavicular does has never been as drastic or dangerous as invasive surgery for fake tits, which everyone accepts as normal because women get special treatment and never get held accountable for double standards
who hurt him?
>>155113973>absorbing manalways shows up with titania, they're a duothey broke up a couple to force another character in
>>155114068this is correctsocial media echo chambers are allowing women to collectively activate each others' amygdalas to talk shit about men. turns out women's amygdalas are more developed or active than men (except for conservatives', ironically) which explains their worldview being based on fear, contempt and explains women's higher levels of disgust and susceptability to the "ick". they can't regulate themselveswhen women talk shit about men and share their disgust with each other, it's call co-rumination. it's more or less the opposite of pre-selection. this behavior also indicates that feminists are not actually interested in equality, they are focused on lowering the status of men
>>155114366i really think it's more of a scenario where he's just looking to make some money and the liberals at marvel, the same liberals who loved krakoa, think that negative attention is better than no attention at all, but really what they're doing is threatening the success of other comics.i was somewhat looking forward to x-orcist, but if marvel wants to do shit like this, then we can all figure out they're not serious about selling comics, they're just looking to make memes
>Kevin SmithNah I'm good.
>>155114436>who loved krakoa,You're not far off, Jordan D White is editing this comic.
>>155112550>The Manosphere>villain team comprised entirely of "-Man" villainsSee this would have been a delightful gag in like the early 2000's for like a Great Lakes Avengers book or Marvel Adventures Spider-Man or whatever, but we can't have jokes like this now because they come with the outright admission that they're not just silly jokes, but rather an earnest attempt at taking on something in society that has upset the author in question to the point of being red-faced and cryingIt's funny on paper, but it's hampered by the reality that Kevin Smith (who is nearly 60) is geuinely bothered by the very idea of hypothetical "jocks" who listen to Joe Rogan and lift weights or whatever
>>155113297It's bad enough this cunt just posts his dogshit articles here but now he's obviously just writing them with AI
>>155113973>>155114108It would’ve been funnier if Lady Stilt-Man was part of the team.
>>155117505That's because those same jocks were the people Kevin was trying to ingratiate himself with in the 00's but then Ben Affleck went on Joe Rogan's podcast or whatever. I'm sure it's not as simple as that but you never know.
>>155112550>Smith’s 2009 “Batman: The Widening Gyre” had a fifteen-year-old girl leave an infant with Daredevil,lolwhut
What was his classic one where Batman pissed his pants?
Didnt he have Black Cat raped?
>>155119080Yep. It was part of the 90's/00's trend of fags thinking adding "le rape?!" to anything made it deeper.
>>155112550Please, Kevin, the horse is beyond dead, it's a paste on the ground. You can stop now.
>>155119617Lmao
>>155113181>hey Doom let's create our own galactic Manosphere and resurrect Gweedo and add him to it
>>155119765I'm sure this unc has a lot of valuable advice about the dating scene that he's eager to share with today's young men.
>>155119080Off panel. He threatened to not finish a black cat mini he wrote if he couldn't have her get raped on panel. The compromise was she was raped off panel as far as inserting a rape into her backstory and forcing him to also finally create a new Mysterio after spending years threatening to never write for Marvel again if they formally brought Mysterio back to life.
>>155112550>C-listers including Stilt-Man and SandmanSandman is one of Spider-Man's most known villain, there's no way he's a c-lister.
>>155114360>regardless if what clavicular does has never been as drastic or dangerous as invasive surgery for fake titsThe guy literally hammers his own chin, takes anabolic steroids, has used crystal meth as an “appetite suppressant”, has been taking testosterone shots since he was like 14 years old and will now need to keep doing it for the rest of his life because once you start doing that your body stop producing it on its own and he has also likely made himself infertile from all the garbage he regularly puts into his body.
>>155112550I don't read Kevin Smith.
>>155120478Since we found out that Wifebeater Del Arroz is using ChatGPT to write his articles (see >>155113297), maybe the AI was hallucinating that Sandman is a c-lister
>>155112550>Kevin Smith Turns The Manosphere Into A Marvel Villain Team As he should.
>>155122219Foid
>>155113733Foid
>>155113257Unironically true
